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...think you're as good as Willie Mays," he snaps, and Rose grins. Morgan is not the sort who will need to have his career notarized, but Rose takes these things seriously. "I disagree with waiting five years," he says, typically hurried. "You're a Hall of Famer or you're not. And I say the more Hall of Famers walking around, the better for baseball. Why did [the old Yankee pitcher] Waite Hoyt have to wait until he was 69? We could have used him at 49. The best pitcher I ever faced was Juan Marichal...
Largely because minor-league grooming has been minimized in recent seasons, San Francisco Manager Frank Robinson, a Hall of Famer inducted just last summer, believes, "This current group may be the last of the lot who can be compared favorably to the oldtimers already in the Hall of Fame." Robinson is from the previous group, those "Ruthian black names" (Johnny Bench's perfect phrase) whose passing seemed to contain no renewal, just an end: Henry Aaron, Willie Mays, Roberto Clemente, Bob Gibson, Lou Brock, Willie Stargell...
...that on the court he is a sharpshooter whose ability to penetrate, physical toughness and rebounding skill are suspect, and that he will make only an average pro. But suppose he could be a Hall of Famer, the next Oscar Robertson. Ainge signed a contract not to begin his Oscaring until after his obligations to Toronto were over, and he is morally and legally obliged to honor that contract...
DIED. Clifford Battles, 70, National Football League Hall of Famer who gained a total of 3,542 yds. in his six seasons (1932-38) as a halfback for the Boston Braves (later called the Boston Redskins, then the Washington Redskins) and who, in his team's divisional championship season of 1936, showed remarkable versatility by rushing 176 times for 614 yds., completing 18 passes for 242 yds., catching six passes for 103 yds. and scoring 42 points on six touchdowns; of heart disease; in Clearwater...
...Hayden, E.D. Nixon, Allen Ginsberg, Allard Lowenstein, John Lewis, Stokely Carmichael, Jerry Rubin, Clark Kerr, James Mellon, Alan Canfora, Paul Williams, Joe Rauh, Bayard Rustin, James Famer. There were different heroes for different people. And though Viorst claims not to have written another history of the '60s, in a superior and unconventional way he has. The history is grounded in the civil rights movement, in Brown vs. the Board of Education, in E.D. Nixon and his Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. It is grounded in the "new values" of Jack Kerouac's prose--an inspiration for Tom Hayden...