Word: cub
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Even if you don't follow baseball closely, you have probably heard Chicago Cub fans (columnist George Will is a particularly lachrymose example) wailing about how their beloved North Side team has not been in the World Series since -- horrors! -- 1945 or actually won one since -- worse horrors! -- 1908. As if to take pity on the star-crossed Cubs, Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent arranged for the club to play an easier schedule starting in 1993, a move prompted by the fact that the National League will grow from 12 to 14 teams next year. Sure, long-overdue geographic reform played...
...they celebrating at ivy-clad Wrigley Field in Chicago? Think again, for this is 1992, when the courts play a bigger role in baseball than they do in tennis. The Cubs are suing Vincent, contending that he overstepped his powers to act in "the best interests of baseball" by ordering the team to switch divisions against its wishes. The real motivation of the Chicago Tribune Co., which owns the Cubs, is (surprise!) money: WGN, the Tribune-owned superstation that shows the Cubs games, is worried that more night games on the West Coast will mean lower TV ratings. True...
...years old and wearing my Cub Scout uniform when we were packed ! onto a train in San Jose," recalls California Democratic Congressman Norman Mineta. "People had to just padlock and walk away from their businesses -- they lost millions. After six months in a barracks at the Santa Anita Racetrack, we were sent to Heart Mountain, Wyo. We arrived in the middle of a blinding snowstorm, five of us children in our California clothes. When we got to our tar-paper barracks, we found sand coming in through the walls, around the windows, up through the floor...
...first, the questions from Reed seem to be off-base, often interrupting the train of the interview and directing it into less fertile ground--a cub reporter's mistakes. But these are not interviews that aim to elicit information from someone as much as they attempt to inform Reed's own ongoing inquiry into political artistry, the confines of his medium and the irresistible urge to create. As such, they succeed, even when the words are nowhere near singing...
...Eliot Morgan '92 is a self-described libertarian, Chicago Cub fan, and purchaser of Penthouse, for the Dershowitz articles. He also writes editorials for The Crimson...