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Wade Austin Melbourne, Fla...
...left the Army in 1979 as a lieutenant colonel, Gritz never really left Indochina. In 1981 he rounded up 21 drifters, dreamers and desperadoes, recruited a psychic, a hypnotherapist and some reporters, and began practicing quixotic Laotian expeditions at an unlikely locale: the American Cheerleading Association Academy in Leesburg, Fla...
Seaver is perched on the edge of a training table in St. Petersburg, Fla., after pitching five innings against Toronto, allowing four runs in the second inning but none in the others. There is that signature streak of dirt on Seaver's pant leg below his right knee, residue from the relentless scraping of an unchanging delivery. He has not changed so much at that. Most young throwers get to the major leagues with "good stuff' and only fall back on pitching later. But Seaver could always pitch...
Casey Stengel's linguistic heir, Sparky Anderson, calls it something else. "Managing is always saying 'I think,' never saying 'I know,' " says the Detroit manager, sunning in a grandstand in Lakeland, Fla., where the Los Angeles Dodgers are visiting. Then he delivers his wonderful annual capsule analysis of the Tigers. "I ain't kidding now. This is an outstanding baseball team that I'll match against anybody in baseball-front line. They'll take their hacks at you. But then, there's a problem. You got to get the other side...
...Iacocca three years ago had the body of a K-car sent from Chrysler's proving grounds near Detroit to a custom auto body shop in California. There the car was rebuilt into a convertible and secretly shipped back East. When Iacocca drove it around Boca Raton, Fla., in the winter of 1981, it won instant admirers. That limited market survey helped convince him that the potential demand for a revived convertible was bigger than anyone imagined...