Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...games dwindle down to a precious few, the baseball season already seems to have touched most of its lyrical bases. In last week's play-offs, catcher Gary Carter of the Mets actually referred to the Dodgers' Orel Hershiser "twirling a gem." Los Angeles manager Tommy Lasorda has been crooning about "the fall classic." Gonfalons have been copped, the World Series is afoot, and aging veterans and hopeful rookies are in full confluence...
...Carter and Keith Hernandez saw their old selves this season, or at least the last month of it, in the Met apprentice Gregg Jefferies. "He reminds me of me when I was young," sighs first baseman Hernandez, 34. "If he goes one game without a hit, he wants to stick his head in the oven." Scampering up from the minors during the last days of August, wide-eyed, 21 and charitably listed at 5 ft. 10 in., Jefferies showed the team that thought it had everything what had been missing for a while: boyishness and wonder. As Steve...
...Manhattan take an hour's drive on Saturdays to stock up on Fieldcrest sheets; Philadelphia Main Liners trek some 40 miles for Harve Benard outfits. Suburban moms motor in for the kids' Nike running shoes, and senior citizens on bus tours from as far away as central Pennsylvania buy Carter's clothing for grandchildren. Even given the discounts, Flemington merchants grossed about $100 million last year, and they expect to do better this year...
...down with an acute case of political leprosy. Switzerland, France and Britain, concerned about oil and terrorism, rolled up the welcome mat. Despite entreaties by the Rockefellers, who handled the fallen Shah's finances and provided him with a live-in public relations man, and Henry Kissinger, President Jimmy Carter kept the door shut. This position hardened after the U.S. embassy in Tehran was overrun and the hostages taken in November...
...Issue: Noam S. Cohen '89 Night Editors: David J. Barron '89 Martha A. Bridegam '89 Julie L. Belcove '89 Jonathan S. Cohn '91 Editorial Editor Gary L. Sussman '89 Features Editor: Ben R. Miller '89 Sports Editor: Michael D. Stankiewicz '90-91 Photo Editor: David K. Eldan '89 J. Carter Vincent '89 Copy Editor: Tara Nayak...