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This past winter more than half a dozen athletes joined the list of baseball millionaires. Like a medieval heir apparent, Pete Rose flashed his Prince Valiant haircut before a clutch of contending clubs, finally settling on the Philadelphia Phillies and their reported dowry of $3.5 million over four years. Former Minnesota Twins Star Rod Carew took his seven batting titles to the California Angels in exchange for some $4.5 million over five years. Boston Slugger Jim Rice, the American League's M.V.P. last season, agreed to a seven-year deal said to total $5.4 million and, in the process...
What figures? They would be the handful of Presidents whose greatness is all but universally conceded. Mount Rushmore epically displays the main clutch of them - Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt. A few more might be added -Jackson, Wilson, F.D.R. It is too soon to say which, if any, of the recent Presidents will ascend to the same folk pantheon. But the ghosts already there are quite likely astir in the elusive archetypal President...
...season's first few games, it was the check-happy Harvard defense that controlled the tempo of Saturday's windchilled contest. Scott Pink's unrelenting stick and Frank "Carlo" Prezioso's positively vicious head-removal service provided the perfect complement to First's clutch goaltending. "Penn's attack is not that good one-on-one," explained Pink, who terrorized Penn attackman Tim Dachille all afternoon...
Sure, there's Bowa, the Bull, Schmidty, Maddox, Bake, Boon, and newcomer Trillo, but a lack of depth and a rotation that is bordering on collapse will hurt the defending division champs. And, anyway, when hasn't a Philadelphia team fizzled in the clutch...
Fade in the Clutch...