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Word: fendrick (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Joseph Willman of Sterling Heights, Mich., wanted to know what the President would do if Uganda's Idi Amin detained Americans. (Answer: Keep cool.) Pete Belloni of Denver asked if there would soon be a 25?-a-gal. tax on gasoline. (No.) Mark Fendrick of Brooklyn wondered if his baseball team, the Yankees, would be allowed to play an exhibition game in Communist Cuba. (Perhaps.) Phyllis Dupere of Rehoboth, Mass., asked if Jimmy Carter would be willing to sign on for a space-shuttle mission. (He's "probably too old to do that," but Amy might some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WHITE HOUSE: America Gets On the Party Line | 3/14/1977 | See Source »

...player's eyes from a $1.25 seat. At decaying College Park in Charleston, the mosquitoes outnumber the fans, the floodlights leave the centerfielder groping in the dark, and a park employee has to run out into rightfield every half-inning to update the Scoreboard. In Greenwood, Dave Fendrick, the young general manager of the Braves, has to collect tickets at the front gate, the dugouts are too small to shelter all the players, and in Spartanburg, Charlie ("Doc") Royals wears four hats as the Phillies' bus driver, clubhouse manager, laundry man and trainer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bush League | 6/23/1975 | See Source »

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