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...Looking at Rose's and Cobb's distinction the simplest way, all anyone must do to gather 4,191 hits is to come up with 200 a year for 20 years and then get 191 more. Against this standard last week, the 3,000th hit of seven-time Batting Champion Rod Carew, 39, splendid as it was, might have seemed diminished. "I wonder how he felt," Rose muses with concern. Shifting, he says, "How do we know, 100 years from now, that they won't be pitching from 80 ft. instead...
...When I was a boy," says the yarn-spinning champion of St. Paul, Minn., "the storyteller in our family was uncle Lew Powell, who was my great uncle, my grandma's brother, who died only a couple of years ago, at the age of 93. In a family that tended to be a little withdrawn, taciturn, my uncle Lew was the friendliest. He had been a salesman, and he liked to drive around and drop in on people. He would converse, ask how we were doing in school, but there would be a point when he would get launched...
...opulent Tchaikovsky Hall, after two months of acrimony and audacity on and off the board, after jitterily watching his obdurate foe almost come from behind and after being driven all the way to the final game in the series, Gary Kasparov at 22 became the sport's youngest world champion. He rang down the curtain on Anatoli Karpov's decade-long top billing with a decisive, 42-move victory, to the obvious delight of a capacity crowd...
...Kasparov appeared to be closing on him fast after a draining record of 40 draws. Then World Chess Federation President Florencio Campomanes, a close friend of Karpov's, abruptly stopped play because, he said, players, officials and organizers were exhausted. The real reason, many insiders charged, was that the champion was physically and psychologically frazzled, ripe for a humiliating defeat. An enraged Kasparov shook his fist: "They are trying to deprive me of my chance!" Later he sneeringly told the German magazine Der Spiegel: "Karpov views the title 'world champion' as a natural prefix to his family name...
...middle of the top-ten pack. Falcon Crest, another top-ten finisher last season, is now being beaten regularly by Miami Vice. The A-Team, last season's No. 6-ranked show, has dropped to 19th place, and Magnum, P.I., blitzed by competition from the new ratings champion, The Cosby Show, has fallen to a lowly 38th...