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Cubs Manager Jim Frey, a minor-league batting champion of 1957, used to soak his bats in motor oil, an appropriate balm for one whose travels led him practically everywhere but to the major leagues. While awaiting promotion with the St. Louis Cardinals, though, Frey once drew near enough to Stan Musial to hear a definition of a doubleheader that stayed with him. "That's when Stanley can get ten hits in one day!" Musial exclaimed. "Think of it, ten hits!" On such optimum expectations, all Cubdom is founded, even in the after-math of three season-ending losses...
Cubs Manager Jim Frey wasn't surprised by the announcement...
...said for the last couple of months it was a one-horse race," Frey said...
...handsome Israeli hero Joseph, Yorg Voyagis is slightly leaden. His and Charly's love affair is sacrificed to the more explosive aspects of the plot, so that when Charly says she loves him, it leaves us cold, Sami Frey as the crazy Khalil is a terrific villain whose wild, rolling eyes belie a steel trap of a mind...
Keith Moreland, Center fielder Bobby Dernier and Shortstop Larry Bowa. "The problem was bringing them together," said Field Manager Jim Frey, "getting them to think of themselves not as ex-somethings-or-other but as Cubs, and proud to be Cubs." Frey, who came along this year when Chicago moved up from fifth, had managed Kansas City against Philadelphia in that '80 series, then was rather briskly fired. Evidently Green knew where a lot of winners were...