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While some athletes today have trouble distinguishing themselves from movie stars, Cowens was a welcome relief from self-promoting impressarios-cum-jocks. In that now infamous Inside Sports profile, some of the Los Angeles Dodgers went so far as to suggest that the purpose of Steve Garvey's inimitable arms-bent-at elbows running style was to prevent his uniform from becoming wrinkled. Pete Rose is known as "Charlie Hustle," but the pervasive sentiment that that hustle is manufactured makes him one of the most hated players in baseball in enemy arenas...
...Samaritans, the Galiean Fishermen, the Household of Ruth, the Heroines of Jericho, the Harvard Lodge of Oddfellows, and the Elks. Other Blacks congregated around the many churches in the community, including the African Methodist Episcopal Church, which served a large West Indian population. And for politically active Blacks, Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) served as a forum. Garvey, who favored a return of Blacks to their native homelands drew large crowds when he came to Cambridge. Most in the end, however, remined in Cambridge--"They found the United States a better place to earn a dollar," Johnson...
...Brian Buckley 2 19 63 3.3 22 1 Paul Scheper 2 18 56 3.1 7 0 Ron Cuccia 2 1 28 28.0 28 0 Mike Granger 1 4 23 5.8 9 0 Paul Connors 1 4 8 2.0 5 0 Mark Marion 1 6 6 6.0 6 0 Jim Garvey 1 2 6 3.0 6 0 Mike Smerczynski 2 1 4 4.0 4 0 Dave Anderson 2 0 2 -- 2 1 Mike Buchanan 1 1 1 1.0 1 0 Mike Ernst 2 2 1 0.5 1 0 Paul Golitz 1 1 0 0.0 0 0 Center Pass...
...Garvey, Jordan writes that he has loved Cyndy "in the same way for ten years, and now that that is no longer enough for her, he is confused...
...their suit the Garveys charge Jordan with breaking an oral agreement to write a "favorable" account of the "special challenges" of their marriage. Instead, they say, his article contains innuendoes, "falsehoods, inventions, gaps and opinions masquerading as facts." Garvey, making an unscheduled appearance on his wife's show, described the profile as "just another opportunity for somebody to take a shot at people who stand up for what we believe in, and that's a strong family, belief in our religion, belief in doing everything we can for people, and I'm tired...