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When it came to 1987, I picked the underdog-slash-Mets vanquisher--and though I was too nervous to watch Kirk Gibson (and hence missed his titanic blow during a fidgety channel-change), the memory lingers with all the resonance of having been in Dodger Stadium myself...
...sports fan and don't know what the above items signify, PLEASE do yourself a favor and find out], the death threats to Hank Aaron, Steinbrenner, the fall of Pete Rose...therein stood Bob Costas, a true romantic spokesman for the game, talking from the inside about Gibson and Buckner and giving their deeds an new, even shinier lustre...
...buying Moscow's line for now: things could be better, but the Right Stuff will prevail. Says astronaut Robert ("Hoot") Gibson, who is scheduled to pilot the space shuttle Atlantis to a first ever rendezvous with Mir next May: "Conditions over there are more difficult than they were. But we're making it work, and we need to." Gibson will be visiting Baikonur beginning this week. It will be interesting to see if he feels the same way on his return...
...game. Four years ago, Burns managed to tell the story of America's bloodiest, most traumatic war in 11 1/2 hours. His account of our favorite sport takes up more than 18. It is not just a history of the game -- from Ty Cobb's vicious slides to Bob Gibson's fast ball, from Babe Ruth's records to Red Sox heartbreaks -- but also a slice of Americana that spans 150 years. The series covers the impact of the Depression and two World Wars; player-owner conflicts that go back more than a century (the reserve clause that prevented players...
That is unlikely to happen without a terrible fight. The chief reason: N.A.A.C.P. chairman of the board William Gibson, a South Carolina dentist who handpicked Chavis for the job. Gibson, according to an N.A.A.C.P. insider, "has stacked every important committee with his own supporters." In the past, his tightly controlled faction has fended off requests from other board members about the organization's finances, programs and directors. Critics have been branded as "traitors and Uncle Toms" by Gibson and Chavis. "I'd be very surprised if there were an emergency board meeting called over this issue," says an N.A.A.C.P. source...