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...pennant boasts, New York Yankees Owner George Steinbrenner would find the business of baseball risky enough. Think again. Last week Steinbrenner was at the starting gate of Florida's Pompano Park Harness Raceway, sitting in a sulky alongside such sporting celebs as Writer George Plimpton and Yankee Hall of Famer Whitey Ford. "When you become a businessman you become stagnant in some ways," explains Steinbrenner, who owns a trotter and a pacer. "You don't do as many of the exciting and dangerous things you used to do. It was skydiving or this." Of course, if Steinbrenner is still thrill...
...Which recently elected Hall of Famer hit more than 500 home runs but never laid down a sacrifice bunt...
...troubling merely to everyone who has difficulty believing that a few horse races and several 1979 Boston College basketball games were the sole sports events worth fixing over the past 20 years. "Ballplayers gamble," says Sharyn McLain, who should know about ballplayers, being the daughter of Hall-of-Famer Lou Boudreau and the wife of Denny McLain. "You go to the dog track, you see ballplayers. They play cards. What else do you do with all that free time...
...professor of Finance at New York University and board member of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Ritter traveled some 75,000 miles lugging his tape recorder around America in search of some of the shortstops of yesteryear. Some were easy to find Others, like Hall of Famer and former Tiger star Sam Crawford--who has no telephone and tells no one where he lives were not Ritter tracked these men down and talked with them about their game, their lives and their country. The results are almost verbatim accounts, with some editing to enhance the book's readability...
...appetite: "He'd stop along the road when we were traveling and order a half dozen hot dogs and as many bottles of soda pop, stuff them in one after the other, give a few big belches, and then roar,'ok boys, let's go... Another original Hall of Famer, Honus Wagner, "just ate the ball up with his big hands, like a scoopshovel, and when he threw it to first base you'd see pebbles and dirt and everything else flying over along with the ball the greatest shortstop ever. The greatest everything ever." This nostalgic sense...