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Until recently, Tampa's most prominent baseball dreamer has been the San Diego first baseman Steve Garvey, formerly of the Los Angeles Dodgers, whose father served as the Brooklyn Dodgers' springtime bus driver in the '50s. Rising from Dodger batboy to star of the team, Garvey prepared Tampa well for its improbable position now as producer of both the most effective pitcher and the most efficient hitter in baseball: the Mets right-hander Gooden and the Boston Red Sox third baseman Wade Boggs. One, the National League Cy Young Award winner by acclamation last year (24-4 record, 268 strikeouts...
...such cheap strategy would be to stamp "Convicted of Driving While Intoxicated" on the driver's license of anyone guilty of DWI. A DWI offender would be stigmatized whenever he writes a check at a local supermarket, or gets carded in a local bar. Nobody wants a gossipy supermarket clerk to know he drove drunk...
...friend could have taken someone with him. What if on that night several years ago, he had wrecked the car of the sober driver he collided with and not the other way around...
...stigmatization will get him off the bottle or out of the driver's seat. They are for him, and for a sizable portion of our society, the symbols of a way of life. In our safety-conscious society, he's got to dice with death to find redemption...
...sighs--of disappointment from would-be Cinderellas and of relief from the royal family, which was obviously delighted that "Randy Andy" had finally settled down with a proper "Sloane Ranger." Well, perhaps not entirely proper. She had been previously involved in a three-year affair with a racing-car driver 22 years her senior. But then Andrew has a past as well. The effervescent, redheaded Ferguson has long been a favorite of Queen Elizabeth's. She is , distantly related to the Queen through her father, Major Ronald Ferguson, who is Charles' polo manager, a close friend of Prince Philip...