Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year after Campanis' comments--and 41 years after Robinson broke the color barrier--baseball has made strides in that direction. Cookie Rojas, who is Cuban, is now managing the Kansas City Royals. Ueberroth's commission has encouraged Black and other minority players to take up coaching and managing positions in the minor leagues, a stepping stone to later employment in the majors...
Between the four companies' main sets and their special card sets, there are over 2500 individual pieces of cardboard to buy. No kid can afford to buy them all, so the fierce competition has created an explosion of color and style. Gone are the cards that had plain lettering under a rectangular photo on a white background. Lone gone is Topps' 1977 set, which had maybe a dozen action photos...
Last year's Fleer cards color-coded a strike zone to show where batters connected with or pitchers threw a fastball, a breaking ball, and an off-speed pitch. Baseball purists hated it because it was so subjective (ratings were performed by "the Scouts"), but it was corny like baseball ought to be. This year the Fleer color graphic isn't as corny: each player's batting average or ERA is given for day, night, home and away games. These are cards you can sit down with for the Game of the Week...
...always one movie that's favored to sweep the Oscars and comes up with a giant zero on Nomination Day. Usually these unpopularity candidates are Steven Spielberg movies, and this year Academy members greeted Empire of the Sun with the same resounding raspberry they offered E.T. and The Color Purple...
...believe there is a formula for getting the Pulitzer. The paper has scored 13 times since 1972, when Executive Editor Eugene Roberts took over; only the New York Times has done better. Roberts says that those in search of the Inquirer's secret have even asked him what color paper he uses for his submissions. Observers contend that the Inquirer has mastered the art of packaging a prize-minded story. It's a great newspaper, says former Washington Post National Editor Peter Osnos, but "sometimes it seems to me they don't edit for the readers, they edit...