Word: cincinnati
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Neither were his children, whose flights from home are cause for empty-nest humor. There is, for example, the irony of a successful junk sculptor sourly contemplating the marginal occupations of his offspring: a daughter who molds clay "pinch pots" in California; another who edits a genealogy journal in Cincinnati and is writing a "highly ambitious feminist novel called Ever Since Eve." One son makes mobiles, "unrequested by the world," while his brother tries to crack the Manhattan film world of "lost young souls stoned on media, pounding the sidewalks and virtually (who knows? -- maybe actually) selling their bodies...
Baseball got off to a slow start, clouded with coke and racism. But within a week the sky cleared and everyone simply started over, the thing baseball does best of all. Bo Jackson of Kansas City and Eric Davis of Cincinnati began applying for Willie Mays' and Roberto Clemente's old jobs. That odd-shaped Minnesotan Kirby Puckett resumed clubbing homers the unlikely way he did last year. With his Ted Williams stroke, the Mets' Darryl Strawberry worked at dissociating himself from scandal...
Managers now seem to value a player who cannot only hit for power but steal bases also. Cincinnati's Eric Davis had 27 homers and stole 80 bases. And he bats cleanup...
...During Pete Rose's magical summer of 1978, when he tied Wee Willie Keeler's National League mark of hitting safely in 44 consecutive game, the Cincinnati legend failed to collect a hit against the Braves in game 45. How did Rose make his final out and which pitcher denied him a place in the record book on that final plate appearance...
Trips to the national championship race at Cincinnati and the Henley Regatta in England may be forthcoming if the Crimson Eight is as successful as predicted, but one match-up that can be counted on is the Harvard-Yale race at New London, Conn., on June...