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Born in New Jersey in 1925, Salter grew up in Manhattan, graduated from West Point and chose to serve with the Army Air Corps, as it was then called. During the Korean War, he was an F-86 fighter pilot, along with pioneering astronauts Gus Grissom and Buzz Aldrin. After 15 years in uniform, he resigned his commission to write full time. Hollywood beckoned--he scripted one of Robert Redford's early hits, Downhill Racer--but Salter eventually retreated to Colorado and New York's Long Island to concentrate on his meticulously crafted novels and short fiction. (A collection, Dusk...
...elements of a true Fall Classic. There was the unlikely hero off the bench: Yankee pinch hitter Jim Leyritz clubbing a three-run homer off Mark Wohlers to tie the score in the eighth inning of Game 4. There was the unlikely goat: sure-handed Atlanta center fielder Marquis Grissom dropping a fly ball to set up the only run of Game 5. There were the nightly chess matches in Atlanta between Torre and Braves skipper Bobby Cox, each ending in mate for Torre. There was drama on the field--the pitcher's duel between probable Cy Young Award winners...
...Kenny Lofton play. He shows how speed can affect a baseball game." The winning run came in the bottom of the 11th, when 39-year-old Eddie Murray fought off a high, inside fastball thrown by Braves reliever Alejandro Pena, lining a single into center field. Braves centerfielder Marquis Grissom could not throw out pinch runner Alvaro Espinosa, who scored from second, giving Cleveland the win. Wulf thinks Atlanta may have an advantage in game four as the Braves face right hander Ken Hill. "Many of the Braves have seen Hill when he was in the National League...
...Homestead as clubs pass on players they would have ordinarily kept. Baseball may be back, but it's not baseball as usual. Last week the Montreal Expos, who had the best team-and smallest payroll-in baseball when the strike hit on Aug. 12, virtually gave away centerfielder Marquis Grissom, reliever John Wetteland and starter Ken Hill because management didn't want to pay them...
...Marquis Grissom led the game off at 4:04 p.m., lining Kent Mercker's first pitch into the right-centerfield alley for a double. The Expos had taken the first two in this three-game series, and such a beginning boded fatally for whatever pennant prospects remained for the Braves...