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...staunch backer of Grant (Young's son-in-law is a Mets employee). The piece contained a belittling reference to Seaver and his wife Nancy. Seaver promptly called the Mets front office and announced: "Everything is off. I want out." That evening, to the unbounded joy of Cincinnati fans...
...confidence. He always has. At 33, he is the best player in baseball. The National League's Most Valuable Player for two straight years, Morgan says proudly: "I want people to expect a lot of Joe Morgan. Success scares some people. Me, I have to have it." The Cincinnati Reds' cocky second baseman has a three-year contract with the club that will net him nearly $1.5 million, but he could add substantially to his earnings by endorsing more products (he stars in several TV commercials) and making personal appearances. However, he maintains, "I'm a private...
Some consumers, forsaking coffee altogether, are showing new interest in old substitutes such as Postum, the all-grain brew invented by C.W. Post in 1895 to cure "coffee nerves." Locally marketed versions, like Grandpa Knight's Cafe-Grano, an all-grain roast sold in the Cincinnati-Dayton area for $1.89 per Ib., are also in demand as replacements...
Despite any rumors, Cincinnati Reds Manager Sparky Anderson has not returned to the used-car business. It's tough to tell though, considering the clunker he has been driving lately. It certainly bears no resemblance to the Big Red Machine that cruised by the Yankees in four straight games last October for the team's second straight World Series victory. Five weeks into the season the Reds were blowing leads, big and small, failing to produce in the clutch, surrendering runs in bunches, falling down in the base paths and sputtering along under .500. "This has been...
...American League no longer take their cuts at the plate; some thing called a designated hitter does that for them. Thanks to the delay of league play-offs and the lure of prime-time TV ratings, World Series games are regularly played on frigid October evenings. Last fall in Cincinnati, Angell notes, "the wretched, blanket-wrapped, huddled masses in the stands flumped their mittened paws together in feeble supplication, pleading now for almost any result that would send them home...