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...Louis Cardinals) score from first base on a single to win the 1946 world series, or seen its pennant-clinching runner (Luis Aparichio) stumble in the basepaths just before he would score, or let one of its ace hurlers give up a home run to Bucky Dent in the division-deciding game against the Yankees...
...fact, getting burned is what being a Red Sox fan is all about. Many Bostonians will go to their graves muttering about Bucky Dent's pop-fly home run, Johnny Pesky's incompetent relay or the team's primal curse: the sale of Babe Ruth to the Yankees to raise money for damn-fool Broadway shows. Still, there is grudging ground for hope in 1986. Wade Boggs, baseball's best hitter, has been flirting with .400 all year. Boston's pitching staff has the best earned-run average in the league. Rich Gedman has turned out to be a catcher...
While missing out on the Marine Corps contract will not put much of a dent ) in Fiat's sales or profits, the prospect of being excluded from bidding on substantially larger Pentagon contracts worries Agnelli. He is a staunch supporter of President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, the antimissile research program known as Star Wars. Says Agnelli: "Sure, I'm concerned. We're trying to participate in SDI. If Fiat is blacklisted, that could be a big problem...
...must have replayed the '78 Yankees-Red Sox playoff game at least 20 times. Whenever it was Bucky Dent's turn in the late innings, Jon would intentionally foul one off so he could claim he broke his bat. Then he would go get one of the spare bats which wasn't his and attempt to re-create the homer. It never worked...
...President reacted to the public uproar with a bombing that seems to have accomplished nothing but filling a few more coffins. It didn't topple Khadafy, and it won't even put a dent in terrorism. The United States and its leaders don't have inexhaustible attention, effort, and resources. They shouldn't waste what little they have on a miniscule, tough-to-solve, technicolor problem when so many staggering, but low-profile, problems being neglected. There would be fewer graves to dig if Reagan and the press realized that it is their responsibility to focus attention on and find...