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...separation from his wife Caron, who will stay on with the couple's five-month-old son James Earl Carter IV. Chip will return to Plains to work in the family's peanut warehouse. His dad was already vacationing down on the farm. The President angled for catfish, had breakfast with Miss Lillian in her pond house and inspected peanut, corn and watermelon fields. To while away the steamy Georgia afternoon, he invited the army of reporters camping out in Americus to come over and "bat some balls" on the Plains diamond. Brother Billy Carter, wearing a sports...
...always been one of the good things about it, not having any tourists at all," he said. "I'm a progressive person. I want change within ourselves, not from other people. Look what happened to Florida." One day in Stubb's as we ate Yazoo River catfish, Tarpley complained: "I can't find any of my friends today. Nobody's where they ought to be. They're all out looking at the strangers and grinning to get attention. It's scary." Tarpley said it seemed like an awful lot of trouble for just...
...more, Carew can often actually see the ball hit his bat. Kansas City Outfielder Amos Otis has a hitter's respect for the Carew eye: "Trying to sneak a pitch past him is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster." Says the New York Yankees' Catfish Hunter, who has been the premier pitcher of the American League since 21-year-old Carew was Rookie of the Year in 1967: "He has no weakness as a hitter. Pitch him inside, outside, high, low, fast stuff, breaking balls-anything you throw he can handle. He swings with...
...Park in Boston, these new futuristic monstrosities are sickeningly bland in conception, and utterly miserable places to watch baseball. One of the worst is Anaheim Stadium in Southern California, which I had the misfortune of visiting last summer. The game was a beauty; Frank Tanana of the Angels and Catfish Hunter of the Yankees locked in an extra-inning duel. But as is the fashion in the new parks, our seats in the upper deck were a good five or six miles from the action. The field's dimensions are completely symmetrical--the distance down the right-field line matches...
...Never has one owner put more individuals that I hate on one team. Not only that, ol' Georgie's baseball investments are paying off about as well as his contribution to Nixon did. Don Gullet couldn't beat a Little League team from Taiwan much less anyone else. Catfish Hunter reinjured himself yesterday; team physician Yess Eimequack said that Hunter sprained his face while chewing tobacco in the bullpen. Catfish is out indefinitely and may be placed on the 21-day, "I'll see ya later" list...