Word: dodger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gretzky is so cordial, one gets the impression he wants to be better than the sometimes fractious Orr even off the ice, to handle it all as well as the always placid Howe. Gordie is to Gretzky what Brooklyn Dodger Gil Hodges was to Los Angeles Dodger Steve Garvey, a giant he happened upon as a child and who never disappointed either the boy or the man. "Sometimes," Gretzky says, "I think it would be nice just to play the game, take off the equipment and go home. It's embarrassing to talk about records. But then I think...
...Jamey Foster. Last year she herself appeared as a bag lady in a radical farce at Los Angeles' Odyssey Theater: "It keeps my childlike spirit alive to go out and do something really strange." When her schedule permits, she attends boxing matches at the Olympic Auditorium, goes to Dodger games or listens to jazz at the Parisian Room. And she still goes home to Jackson, though "it's different now. People who used to talk freely don't talk any more, figuring they'll end up in a play or a book." They need not worry...
...Draft Dodger...
They knew it back in Northridge. During Scheper's senior year, his high school baseball team played for the Los Angeles City Championship under the lights at Dodger Stadium. When Granada Hills won the game--"the highlight of my high school career"--Scheper went more than just a little crazy...
...poured Dodger dirt all over himself," Gigi laughs. "He was out there rolling in the Dodger dirt." Says Scheper: "I wend nuts when we won." Craziness aside, it's interesting to note that the entire starting nine from Scheper's team is still playing baseball, four in the pros and five in college. And Scheper was voted most inspirational by his teammates. "Just for the Dodger dirt," he grins...