Word: dodgerism
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...Fans intent on seeing the best Japanese players will have to follow the trail taken by the stream of jet-lagged Japanese tourists stumbling around Dodger Stadium, Pac Bell Park and Safeco Field. The influx into Seattle has been so pronounced that the team has posted signs in Japanese around the ballpark. "I'd like to say to Seattle baseball people and the mayor of Seattle, 'Please give an award to me,'" Inow says. "Seattle was known in Japan before, but it was not so popular. Now look: Seattle is Ichiro's town, and Japanese people are coming. I need...
...Ishii isn't yet generating the buzz that the team's previous foreign phenoms did. Dodger Stadium doesn't sell out every time he pitches, as it did at the peak of Fernandomania, but with his flowing brown locks and quick smile, he could very well become the Next Big Thing in L.A. Although he has kept a relatively low profile in order to fit in with his teammates, Ishii has a somewhat zany personality, which has made him a regular guest on comedy and variety shows on Japanese television. In his homeland he has even been called the Asian...
...lionization of Ali is truly amazing. Whenever I hear of him, I think of a Vietnam-era draft dodger and an egomaniac. Ali spent a large part of his life trying to beat out other men's brains in a barbaric activity known as prizefighting. Sadly, his opponents tried to do the same to him, and he has paid a big price for this. His "heroism" is more the media's creation than the general public's opinion. The events of recent months tell us what real heroism is all about. JAMES PULLEN St. Louis...
...Robinson spent 10 mostly triumphant years with the Dodgers, but baseball racism endured. Four years after Rickey left the Brooklyn organization, the black Puerto Rican, Roberto Clemente, showed great promise in the Dodger farm system. "We're not bringing him up," decreed Walter O'Malley, Rickey's successor. "We have enough colored boys already." Pittsburgh plucked Clemente, and the Hall-of-Famer slammed out 3,000 hits over an 18-year career...
...Racism exploded again when Baseball Inc. decided to solemnly mark the 40th anniversary of Robinson's major league debut. Ted Koppel invited me and the late Al Campanis, then Dodger general manager, to appear on his popular network program Nightline. Robinson died in 1972, but Koppel asked me what he might think about the state of blacks in baseball during 1987. I said Robinson would be appalled that there was not a single black manager in the major leagues. Koppel said to Campanis, who was sitting in a Houston ball park, "Is Mr. Kahn's statement true...