Word: cleveland
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Albert Belle's narrow loss to Boston's Mo Vaughn in the AL MVP voting gained the Indians outfielder no sympathy from the Cleveland Plain Dealer...
Boston Red Sox first baseman Mo Vaughn edged Cleveland's Albert Belle to take the American League's Most Valuable Player Award in a vote that may have been determined as much by personality as statistics. Although Belle arguably had the better stats, hitting .317 with 50 home runs to Vaughn's .300 and 39, Belle's reputation as being surly to reporters may have cost him when the reporters did the voting. The voters may also have been swayed by the fact that Belle was just one of many sluggers on a powerful Indians team, while Vaughn...
Then he went to Princeton's famed Institute for Advanced Study, where he engaged in pure research, which was followed by a "bit of a shock": a teaching appointment at Cleveland State, where he taught a large Western civilization classes...
...Cleveland, Dooley taught nine courses a year, a load which he says shut out the opportunity for any research...
...sides of baseball were readily apparent in the World Series. On the one hand, you had Cleveland pitcher Orel Hershiser, who was so nice that he stopped his press conference after winning Game Five because he heard someone's tape recorder click off on the table in front of him. (He found the recorder, flipped over the cassette and resumed talking.) On the other hand, Hershiser's teammate, Albert Belle, verbally assaulted nbc reporter Hannah Storm as she waited in the Indians' dugout before Game Three. (Shouldn't Albert and Hannah swap names...