Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cleveland, June 13--After being picked in the 15th round of the Major League baseball draft earlier in the month, Harvard baseball's Vinnie Martelli signed with the Cleveland Indians and was assigned to their Batavia Club in the New York-Penn League...
...Ghassem Tehrani, who is editor of an Iranian community newspaper, could not find work in Paris or London. He is unhappy in L.A. "You are too much money-minded here. All of us want to go back," he declares. If it were not for his two sons of Iranian draft age (14 and 16), he claims the family would return. But Tehrani's boys would not fare well in Iran in any case. "I don't think they know enough Farsi to survive...
...shadowy George Mason, near neighbor of Washington's and brilliant political writer, drafted the Virginia Declaration of Rights in Williamsburg. A copy was dispatched to Philadelphia, where Jefferson read it just before he sat down to draft the Declaration of Independence. His masterwork had many glints of Mason...
Smith is 32, the second oldest of the still youthful Islanders, a last remnant of the expansion draft that stocked the franchise eleven years ago. He can recall mean times and does so nostalgically. "One problem with playing on a winner," sighs Smith, "is you can't go out and just hammer somebody. It might cost you the game." Nevertheless, he went out and just hammered Gretzky in Game 2, which the Islanders won 6-3. There followed a bit of spearing and slashing, a good deal of cursing and crying, and two more New York victories...
...marked not by the year of the Canadiens' last champion ship in 1979 but by the retirement of legendary General Manager Sam Pollock the season before. Torrey, bow-tied and bespectacled, cuts that sort of figure now. During the Islanders' impoverished years, when their teen-age draft choices were always exchangeable for veteran castoffs, Torrey's patience formed the foundation of a castle. That dismal first season (just twelve victories in 78 games), a 20-year-old right wing born in Stockholm, Sweden, was so clumsy that he had to be tutored by a lady figure skater...