Word: diamonds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Whatever hopes a gaffer might have that the likes of Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlie Sheen and Lou Diamond Phillips (an actor who curiously combines sweetness and menace and may have the brightest future of them all) could reinvigorate the moribund western form are quickly blotted out by the cloud of ineptitude raised by Young Guns. Profit, yes. The fool thing took in more than $19 million in its first two weeks of release...
...which the tabloid's "stories" are concocted, yet keeps pondering the disappearance of the corpse and other oddities until her legitimate reportorial instincts first imperil and then save her. The mystery does not equal the standard set by past Westlake plots but is as sternly instructive as buying diamond futures from a boiler-room telephone huckster...
...promotional ploys help make up for the earnest but second-rate play on the diamond. Fans know that any player who becomes a star will soon be promoted to a higher league. "We can't really highlight a player," says Bill Terlecky, general manager of the Maine Phillies, "because we might lose him." One consolation: many minor-league buffs can boast of having seen Dwight Gooden and other superstars play when they were fresh out of high school...
Such inner struggles are mostly beyond the ken of us middle-aged Walter Mittys, whose images are those of the grandstand and whose own diamond memories ended with youth-league ball more than a quarter-century ago. For all the cliches about baseball being a boy's game played by grown men, we watch and root with ardor because we sense the truth: what happens on the big league diamond is life magnified beyond mortal dimension. Who in his or her daily existence has an experience to equal the champagne-drenched euphoria of a championship team? How can the workaday...
Legendary athletes are honored when their number is retired with them. Just ask Dave ("Spuds") Bresnahan, the never-to-be-forgotten second-string catcher for the Williamsport (Pa.) Bills, a class AA team. His immortal feat on the diamond last year prompted 2,700 of his fans to gather at Bowman Field last week to pay him a belated tribute and to paint his number, 59, on the outfield fence...