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Sorry, but you'll have to wait until next week to catch Amy Rinehard and the rest of the Harvard women's softball team across the river at the diamond...
Certainly, the replacement players made their share of errors on the diamond, but these miscues didn't result from a lack of effort...
Major League Baseball's Detroit Tigers today announced that manager Sparky Anderson , who refused to coach replacement players during thestrike, will return to the diamond with big leaguers when the season begins on April 26. Cincinnati, meanwhile, held its traditional opening-day parade today even though the first Reds home game has been re-scheduled for May 2. The union and the owners still have not worked out a new contract, which means players could walk out again. But TIME sportswriter Steve Wulf says both sides are afraid of further alienating fans. "I don't think they'd dare interrupt...
...pantheon of sport--just ask any fourth grader who he wants to be like, and after Jordan, Barkley, Shaq, a couple of football or hockey players, and maybe even a random tennis player, the nine-year-old might say Ken Griffey, Jr. or Barry Bonds or another diamond king. (Maybe this example is a slight exaggeration, but I believe it's substantively true...
Perhaps one of the reasons that no baseball player made that 1989 cover of Sports Illustrated was that no team dominated the 1980s as the Lakers, 49ers, or Oilers did in their respective sports. Parity was the rule on the diamond...