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Marines in Lebanon, the inability to fight back has created a particular vulnerability that shows up in the uneasy expressions of many men. For Bravo Company, the long, empty days are spent mostly in dugout bunkers or grungy tents...
...being back in the company of old Cincinnati comrades Joe Morgan, 39, and Tony Perez, 40. Besides, Rose has a plan. "Whenever I'm out of the lineup, I'll drive [Manager] Pat Corrales so nuts he'll have to get me out of the dugout. My edge has always been to play every day, to try to lead the league in hits, doubles, runs scored...
...senators and state governors, the voters delivered an unmistakable rebuff to the military-sponsored authoritarian regime. At week's end, results were still trickling in from the balloting exercise, in which voters in Brazil's remote Amazonian hinterlands were forced to travel by truck, airplane or even dugout canoe in order to register their electoral preference...
...Angeles Dodgers disagree, but there barely even seemed to be any losers. In the National League West, it was nice and democratic the way the San Diego Padres beat the Atlanta Braves for the Dodgers and the San Francisco Giants beat the Dodgers for the Braves. In the dugout getting ready to hit in the seventh inning, 39 and not so sure that this would not be his last at-bat ever, Giant Second Baseman Joe Morgan said he got to thinking of Ted Williams. (Do running backs ever break from the huddle thinking of Jim Brown?) In his final...
...Baltimore, where the Orioles were able to win three straight games but not four from the Milwaukee Brewers, retiring Manager Earl Weaver did more than just pop back out of the dugout afterward; he led Memorial Stadium in cheers. Curiously, Baltimore has adopted for a municipal symbol and mascot a cab-driving, beer-belching mountain man who can roughly spell out the letters O-r-i-o-l-e-s by flailing his limbs. When the score is forgotten, the memory will be of Weaver taking over for Wild Bill Hagy and acting out how everyone felt. As he closed...