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...seems to me like a very fine choice," said Charles S. ("Chub") Feeney, whom Giamatti will succeed in the fall. "He's highly intelligent and loves baseball," said Feeney, a Dartmouth alumnus who as General Manager of the New York Giants helped orchestrate the team's move to San Fransisco...
...left center on a 2-1 slider from Eric Show in the first inning of a 2-0 victory over the San Diego Padres. "You missed a good ball game tonight," Rose told President Reagan over the phone. For some reason, Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth and National League President Chub Feeney missed it too. Not only did Rose score both runs and make a defensive dive for the final out, but unbelievably in the seventh inning, he duplicated his inaugural 1963 triple off Pittsburgh's Bob Friend, an identical shot into the left-field corner. Could Rose be starting over...
After Ozzie Smith opened the fifth with a ground out, the rains interrupted play. After two hours and 28 minutes of delay, league President Chub Feeney ordered the game postponed...
Horrified, National League President Chub Feeney ordered Turner to desist for the good of baseball. Turner watched the next game, a victory, from the stands, but a couple of days later he was in uniform again. He took batting practice, and was about to try his hand at strategy once more when a stern telegram arrived from Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn. When Turner phoned Kuhn, the exasperated commissioner uttered the single memorable sentence of a career devoted to prudent locution...
Fadden has treated everyone, the famous All-Americans like Chub (later Massachusetts Governor) Peabody, and football, baseball and hockey star Barry Wood (later a world-famous surgeon) to the less-heralded jocks, like those football-playing Kennedy brothers Jack, Bob and Ted. "I've seen from the ridiculous to the sublime athlete here," he says...