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...once after an outdoor Mass in San Francisco's Candlestick Park. Like Whitey Ford, who writes "Ed Ford" to conserve energy, the Pope went with "JP II." If he knows baseball, he might wonder what ever happened to that era of priceless memories when small boys leaned out over dugout railings and haunted stadium gates. A number of contemporary players, like the Dodgers' Orel Hershiser and Don Mattingly of the Yankees, boycott the cattle calls. "Every kid is looking for a moment or hoping for a word, but no one ever even glances up," Mattingly says. "It's depressing." However...
...biggest surprise in the B.U. game was looking into the Terriers' dugout andseeing--of all things--a New York Yankees jacketbeing worn by the B.U. trainer. I always thoughtno Yankees fans were allowed in New England, or atleast we should try to be inconspicuous
...They offered to expand on their testimony for a fee to SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and the Cincinnati Enquirer. Both publications demurred. But the story began to drip out, and its most graphic charge was that the leading hitter in baseball history may have exchanged signals with his bookie from the dugout. Rose denies betting on baseball games or indulging in any other illegal form of gambling, though he admits he is a habitue of dog and horse tracks...
...Angeles this year, the old catcher Rick Dempsey brought lessons and morals from two consecutive basement jobs at Baltimore and Cleveland. With a double here and there, in the dugout, anywhere, Dempsey has been a triumph. "My child, my baby," he says of the rookie pitcher Tim Belcher (his particular protege), the famous player-to-be-named-later from so many months ago, when Oakland took reliever Rick Honeycutt in the fabled trade that benefited both sides. The Dodgers and A's appear to have fundamentally rebuilt from each other: seven men have served both...
...seventh inning, and the bleacher creatures join in paying homage to Sox ace reliever Lee Smith. They bow as Smith saunters confidently from the dugout to the bullpen. Chants of "Lee, Lee" ring through the air as the 6-ft., 6-in. demi-god, hardly acknowledging the adulation and screaming of his worshippers, strolls...