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...next year. Though many teams are still losing money, their owners are far from bailing out. Two years ago the L.A. Aztecs were on the block for $150,000; now they are worth an even million, but the owners have rejected the bid. One of them, Pop Star-Soccer Freak Elton John, has brought George Best, onetime star forward for Manchester United, over from England to attract the local crowds. The biggest league-round draw is the New York Cosmos' legendary Pelé. Average attendance in the league in its first four weeks is roughly 10,000. And that...
...wish Angell was like Wallace Stevens, an insurance man doubling as a psychotic baseball freak. His writing, since his collection The Summer Game was published, has increasingly gone beyond the usual vanishing-sport, vanishing-values cliche and into an allusive yet serious search for what baseball did, does and should mean to the true believer...
Debi Field, coach of the Radcliffe lacrosse team, views the injuries as a result of bad luck and emotional and physical stress. "A lot of it is freak things that happen, like in a game situation rather than in practice," Field said last week...
Wood interprets her injury as a freak accident. But she attributes the muscle injuries to a lack of warning up before games. The warm-ups are more important now because "people have gotten more serious...
...Bodies, Ourselves is the only book in my high school library that has ever been replaced because the first copy was worn out from overuse. When it first appeared on the shelves, it was passed around as a freak--a book that talked more frankly about women, to women, than any other book we had ever seen, and probably more frankly than we talked to outselves. That was in the early '70, when the media was still fascinated with the "bra-burning women's libbers," women with whom no one wanted to associate themselves no matter how much they agreed...