Word: franked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...season, the Baltimore Orioles were spinning out of the way, reeling from inside pitches too mean to be believed, looking silly and sad. Starting with a 12-0 opener at home, the Orioles lost the first six games for second-year Manager Cal Ripken, who was abruptly fired. Frank Robinson replaced him, and they lost ten more to shatter an 84-year-old major-league record. Once Baltimore was the proudest team in the game, and the winningest...
...step somewhere along the line. The black players weren't fair to him in Cleveland; I'll leave it at that. And ! some of our guys let him down too, if you want to know the truth of it. When I heard about the Baltimore job, I almost sent Frank a telegram. I was going to say, 'Congratulations -- I think...
...runs by the Kansas City Royals. Grayer at 52 and a little less volatile, Robinson finally closed the clubhouse door ! and screamed. Because he has been three of the only five black managers (Larry Doby and Maury Wills had momentary calls in Chicago and Seattle), some people are saying Frank Robinson has become an old-boy network complete unto himself, as recyclable as the much fired, well-traveled perennials Don Zimmer and John McNamara. "People say a lot of things," Morgan mutters through tight teeth, "but watch how much better the Orioles play. He can't make them great...
...back unless their competitors do. And even when the sales pitch is persuasive, educators wonder if the customer has been well served. "I get concerned that all the marketing is taking the place of good counseling and exploiting people who haven't reached a real maturity level," says Frank Burtnett, executive director of the National Association of College Admission Counselors in Alexandria, Va. A college education is, after all, not cornflakes...
...decision to retaliate was made by President Reagan after U.S. weapons experts established that the mines were of Iranian origin. In a series of conferences over the weekend, the President's top military advisers, including Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci, National Security Adviser Colin Powell and Admiral William Crowe, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, presented a series of options. Reagan eventually selected a "light" form of retaliation, according to Crowe. It included the targeting for destruction of two oil platforms, the Sassan and the Sirri, that served as bases for Iranian intelligence monitoring in the gulf, and the sinking...