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...middle-class Jewish suburban town, I was smart enough to know that no one I grew up with would ever play major league baseball. But I did dream this: Perhaps one of us upper-middle class Jews would become a sportswriter who got to vote for the Hall of Fame...
...This year, my boyhood baseball dreams came true. Ken Davidoff, our J.P. Stevens High School sports editor turned New York Newsday baseball columnist, has finished serving his required 10-year apprenticeship as a baseball writer and finally got to cast a Hall of Fame vote for the first time. And Ken-one of the nicest guys I?ve ever known-let me down...
...Like almost all of the Hall of Fame voters, Ken voted against Mark McGwire-who failed Tuesday to make the cut for Cooperstown, while Cal Ripken Jr. and Tony Gwynn were elected -because of the steroid use the first baseman pretty much copped to in Congressional testimony. As Ken put it in an email to me, "he broke not only a baseball law (as did Gaylord Perry, for instance) but a federal law." A federal law such as underage drinking at Scott Lustig's house...
...would like to thank the editors of TIME for choosing me as 2006's Person of the Year [Dec. 25, 2006--Jan. 1, 2007]. I promise my family, friends and co-workers that I will not let this title go to my head and that the wealth and fame it will undoubtedly bring me will be used only for the greater good. I also appreciate the flattering cover photo, although I believe that your stylists could have worked a bit harder to de-emphasize the rectangular lines of my face. KATHI VIESER BIANCO North Babylon...
Twiggy A pubescent-like body won her fame in 1960s London, but with a stick-thin BMI of 14.7, she would be out of a job in Milan these days...