Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seven-inning outing against the Twins, John gave up 10 hits and pitched out of two bases-loaded jams. Okay, so he's not Sandy Koufax. But neither is Chicago's Greg Maddux. And Maddux...
Unfortunately, 1989 is quickly becoming known as the year that racial politics took over--in Chicago, in New York and in Boston...
RACIAL politics has already begun to surface its ugly head on the local level. The February 28 Democratic primary in Chicago was one of the most divisive races ever. Richard Daley, who is white, received over 90 percent of the white vote and a handful of Black support. His Black opponent, Eugene Sawyer, received just the opposite percentages of Daley...
...Boston, Mayor Raymond Flynn is also facing opposition because he endorsed Daley, with whom he attended Providence College in the early '60s, in the Chicago mayoral race. Yet in 1987, Flynn went to Chicago and stumped for the late Harold Washington...
...baseball is most sensitive to gambling. The commissioner's office was founded in 1920 in reaction to the rigged World Series the year before, when the Cincinnati Reds were the beneficiaries. First Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis, a federal judge from Illinois, ignored technical acquittals and permanently banned the eight Chicago Black Sox players involved. In 1947 A.B. ("Happy") Chandler suspended manager Leo Durocher one season merely for associating with gamblers...