Word: detroiters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first hitter he faced in batting practice was Lance Parrish, a former Detroit catcher he had been partial to in Flint. ("I definitely didn't want to bean him.") The ball came flying back with a wonderful new timbre. "He was the first guy I ever faced with a wooden bat," says Abbott, too young to see the sadness in how far a player has to come these days to escape aluminum. After hitting against the rookie, Parrish moved behind the plate: "He probably has as strong an arm as any lefthander I've ever caught. His motion...
...Detroit Pistons...
Every Sunday evening some 11 million U.S. households watch the Fox network's raunchy hit, Married . . . With Children. But a letter-writing campaign by just one shocked viewer in suburban Detroit has prompted several national advertisers to yank their commercials from the blue-collar sitcom...
...Detroit's new school-board president, a black, Harvard-educated lawyer named Lawrence Patrick, is in favor of it. So are Sharlyn and Charles Dahl, a white Minnesota couple who are considering ferrying their son across district lines next fall to escape their school's financial problems. But other parents and educators throughout the U.S. are against it, including the four black members of the Boston school committee. Last week those members tried and failed to defeat a new plan that will allow Boston's parents to choose where their children go to school, as long as racial balance...
...Peterzell, Michael Riley, Elaine Shannon, Alessandra Stanley, Dick Thompson, Nancy Traver New York: Bonnie Angelo, Joelle Attinger, Eugene Linden, Thomas McCarroll, Naushad S. Mehta, $ Marguerite Michaels, Priscilla Painton, Raji Samghabadi, Janice C. Simpson, Martha Smilgis Boston: Robert Ajemian, Sam Allis, Melissa Ludtke Chicago: Gavin Scott, Barbara Dolan, Elizabeth Taylor Detroit: B. Russell Leavitt Atlanta: Joseph J. Kane, Don Winbush Houston: Richard Woodbury Miami: James Carney Los Angeles: Jordan Bonfante, Jonathan Beaty, Scott Brown, Elaine Dutka, Cristina Garcia, S.C. Gwynne, Jeanne McDowell, Sylvester Monroe, James Willwerth San Francisco: Paul A. Witteman