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...entire season. Williams was the last major leaguer to do so, in 1941, finishing at .406. Payton has a .403 batting average as the Pittsfield Mets begin their pennant-stretch run. He's facing pitchers from the minors, sure -- but the lighting around the New York-Penn circuit is bush league too, giving the pitchers an edge. In addition, Payton and every other hitter at Wahconah has to deal with a delightful idiosyncrasy. In 1919 Wahconah was laid out with day baseball in mind. Home plate faces west -- precisely the wrong direction for Mets games that now begin...
...panel of three federal judges said two Los Angeles policemen convicted of civil rights violations in the beating of motorist Rodney King should get tougher sentences. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling, in Los Angeles, could double the 21/2-year terms given to Sgt. Stacey Koon and Officer Laurence Powell...
...Berg, a charming, literate and steadfastly unemployed semi- celebrity, parlayed his baseball and espionage experiences into 25 years of free room and board. Until his death in 1972 at the age of 70, he lived at his sister's house in Newark, New Jersey. From there he played the circuit of hospitable friends. His routine was to call up to say he happened to be in town and then wait for the inevitable invitation...
...last-minute wrench into Shannon Faulkner's plan to become the Citadel military college's first woman cadet. Faulkner was set to enroll Monday after winning a sex-discrimination suit that had bounced up to the Supreme Court. But this afternoon a three-judge panel of the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted the school a delay until December, when the case goes back to the drawing board. Till then, Faulkner is stuck in the Citadel's day-student program. The silver lining: no court-ordered buzz cut for Faulkner, at least not this semester...
Last week Judge Raymond Cashen of the Macomb County Circuit Court finalized his ruling, declaring that Maranda would be better off living with her 20- year-old father. Cashen indicated that day care was the deciding factor against the mother. "A child gains the feeling of security, a safe place by virtue of permanence," said Cashen, who expressed skepticism about the long- term impact of "strangers" on a child's emotional well-being. Smith, a part-time maintenance worker at a local park, lives with his parents and intends to have his mother, a full-time homemaker, look after...