Word: fanning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Monday night, in the home regular-season finale for the Boston Red Sox, an unidentified fan ran out of the right-field stands and slid head-first into second base to a resounding cheer from the Fenway faithful--a cheer that is usually reserved for ace pitcher Pedro Martinez...
...fan has a police record...
...fan, who probably wasn't more than 18 years old, did something nearly all of the 33,000 gathered would love to do just once...
Otherwise, McEnroe is enjoying the tour, still intent on winning, but more relaxed than ever and more involved with the folks in the stands. "The idea is to get closer to the fan," he explains. Literally closer too, because at each stop the tour erects a small, temporary stadium that enables everyone in the crowd to see the players up close. During the week of a tournament, the participants banter and mingle with the fans and sometimes set up tennis clinics for kids...
BEEN THERE, DONE THAT (St. Martin's) "I had more consecutive hit records than the Beatles or Elvis Presley," crows Eddie Fisher in his new memoir, co-written with David Fisher (no relation). "I had 65,000 fan clubs and the most widely broadcast program on television and radio." Still, Fisher is most remembered as a husband--first to Debbie Reynolds, then to Elizabeth Taylor, then to Connie Stevens. When he left Reynolds for Taylor, it was a national scandal; when Liz left him for Richard Burton, it was an international ruckus. Yet Fisher, now on his fourth marriage, never...