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...Angeles Dodgers, the only team in the majors to win 100 games this year, overcame pressure from the red hot Big Red Machine from Cincinnati to win the National League West. The Reds, with a 98-63 record, better than any other team except the Dodgers, are probably wondering why along with Atlanta they are in the Western division while teams west of the Mississippi like St. Louis are in the Eastern division...
...Cincinnati I can never quite consider as a "hero" any man who accepted a German decoration from Hermann Göring, Hitler's ruthless crony. The true heroes were the boys who died fighting the Nazi beasts and never received publicity or parades. To me Charles Lindbergh will never typify a hero...
Even so, prospects for the Dodgers were hardly hopeless. Though the Los Angeles lineup lacks big-name bats like Cincinnati's Pete Rose, Joe Morgan and Johnny Bench, the Dodgers have their share of potent hitters. First Baseman Steve Garvey, who was the Dodgers' bat boy 15 years ago, sports a healthy batting average of .324, followed not far behind by young Leftfielder Bill Buckner. Jim Wynn, the "Toy Cannon," adds the power of 30 home runs and 99 RBis. And there is always iron-arm Mike Marshall in the bullpen...
California Split is a rejoinder to the terse, glamorously tense world of The Cincinnati Kid, where the green felt is turned into a field of honor. It may be the first movie about gamblers that does not require any knowledge of the rules of a game. California Split is about compulsion, not betting, so the conventions are disregarded. There are no looming closeups of nervously shifting eyes, sweaty foreheads and shaky hands. Altman's premise is that getting hooked on gambling is the kind of emotional brinkmanship that is suicide by inches. This knowledge runs through California Split like...
Collins is both substantive and witty. He is also generous with his praise and fairly candid about his dislikes. Neil Armstrong, who now teaches engineering at the University of Cincinnati, gets the highest marks for his "great balance and perspective." Frank Borman, now a vice president at Eastern Airlines, "makes decisions faster than anyone I have ever met." Collins is awed by his Gemini 10 partner John Young, a country boy whose "aw shucks, 't aint nothing" demeanor masks a brilliant engineering mind...