Word: dodgerism
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Last month, New York Mets outfielder Vince Coleman walked out of Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles with intent...
...hopped into the back of a car being driven by Dodger outfielder Eric Davis and prepared to leave the stadium. As he did, Coleman--in a despicable, incomprehensible act of pure contempt and childishness-lit a firecracker he was carrying and tossed it over a chain-link fence into a crowd of Dodger fans...
Clinton had started the week uncertainly, braving shouts of "Draft dodger!" and "Shut up, coward!" at his ceremonial Memorial Day visit to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The President, who knelt to make a rubbing of the name of a boyhood friend, James Herbert Jeffries, also received some applause...
...Clinton clashed with Joint Chiefs Chairman Colin Powell on the gay issue. "Not since Carter has a President been so disliked by the military," said a Joint Chiefs staff officer. Uniformed personnel ranging from privates to generals routinely refer to their Commander in Chief as "Slick Willy" and "Draft Dodger." Beyond the financial affronts like Clinton's proposed government pay freeze, which will save $18 billion in military spending, the ranks are rife with bogus stories that Clinton forbids officers to wear their uniforms in the White House and that the First Lady refuses to ride in cars with them...
Some may even be true. The one about Cohen, Koufax and the ice cream, however, is not. Last year a Washington Post reporter checked with Koufax. The former Dodger said he'd never been to New Haven, and although he did grow up in the same neighborhood as King, they did not really become friends until they were adults. So why did King make the story up? Part of the answer may lie in that Brooklyn playground where the little boy proudly pounded erasers. King, the son of Russian-immigrant Jewish parents, was one of those kids who, if they...