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...Yankees cannot lose." "But I fear the Indians of Cleveland." --Ernest Hemingway...
...course I wasn't worried. Just because the Indians of Cleveland had the Yanks down 2 games to 1 in the American League Championship Series and stuck at unfriendly Jacobs Field for the next two games? Because the Yankee second baseman, Chuck Knoblauch, had decided to recall his Little League days in Game 2 by arguing with an ump while the ball lay on the field for 7 sec., allowing the lead run to score? Because even after the Yanks won Games 4 and 5, their Nos. 1, 2, 4 and 5 hitters were batting a barely breathing...
...mitt, part kid. This trio forms a living argument for retaining the custom of dressing coaches and managers in players' uniforms. They confer and fret like 12-year-olds. How Torre managed to create a sum greater than its parts was evident in a small way in the fifth Cleveland game. After a couple of early bumps, Wells was sailing along with one out and nobody on in the eighth. There was no fissure that showed either in his mechanics or results: his fastball had not lost 1 m.p.h.; he was still hitting the corners; and he had struck...
...other hand, every big-league hitter knows that sometimes you have to lay off a pitch. That's the case with "Major League (1989), a minor-league effort that features Tom Berenger as a broken-down Cleveland Indians catcher, Rene Russo as the Woman He Loves, and Bob Uecker as, well, Bob Uecker. How bad is this film? "How's your wife and my kids?" is the best line of the movie...
Folkman, who worked for the U.S. Attorney General's Office in Cleveland, Ohio last summer, says his job search has become more competitive this year as students vie for private sector internships that could turn into post-graduation job offers Stein's firm promises...