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Like he delivers for Federal Express. No one believes he's a killer, El Supremo, Dr. Death. So this week Holyfield, who's 28, is going to bop this 42- year-old fat guy, George Foreman, on the beezer in Atlantic City. When Holyfield was in fourth grade, Foreman was heavyweight champ...
...Well, Foreman won his title by flattening Joe Frazier, who was no joke. 'Course that was back in '73, and the next year Foreman lost to Ali in Zaire. Then he lost to Jimmy Young, who wasn't a joke but wasn't Godzilla either. Foreman quit fighting for 10 years and took up preaching. And eating. But then four years ago, he started fighting again. He beat 24 stiffs in a row, 23 by knockouts...
Sure. So could George McGovern in the '92 presidential election. How about a two-George parlay? Giggles or not, jiggles or not, a lot of comebacking is being attempted at the world-class level in sports. A reasonable citizen may wonder what Foreman, Bjorn Borg, Larry Holmes, Sugar Ray Leonard, Nancy Lieberman Cline, John McEnroe, Jim Palmer, Mark Spitz and Jill Sterkel have in common. A reasonable answer might be they're nuts. They're all trying, or trying to try, or have recently tried, comebacks, holding high the torch for middle-aged wheezers everywhere...
...still read the sports pages, but we tried to avoid war imagery to describe third-down situations. Roger Clemens became the first $5 million baseball player, and Pete Rose was barred from the Hall of Fame. George Foreman will soon be fighting for the heavyweight championship, and Sugar Ray Leonard has retired. We think he means it this time...
...Michael Foreman (Arcade; $16.95). A Briton makes the '40s home front seem as recent as last week. No horrors here, just a collection of strangely compelling trivia. When bombs went off, for example, they scattered seeds out of gardens. "The following spring and summer, piles of rubble burst into bloom. Marigolds, irises and, best of all, potatoes sprouted everywhere...