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...This is a program that Hank Moses started," Mackay-Smith says. "It came out of his whole vision of advising freshmen...
Mickey Mantle vs. Willie Mays, Hank Aaron vs. Harmon Killebrew and Rocky Colavito vs. Duke Snider made for great television in the 1950s...
...Hank Aaron's autobiography, I Had a Hammer (HarperCollins; $21.95), written with Lonnie Wheeler, is as much a provocative primer on baseball's race relations in the 1950s and '60s as it is a superstar's account of his triumphant march to breaking Babe Ruth's all-time home-run record. Aaron, who spent much of his career overshadowed by mediagenic players -- both white and black -- like Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays, can claim with some justice that he was belittled by stereotypes. "Because I was black, and because I never moved faster than I had to, and because...
...veteran sportswriter now pushing 70, Creamer artfully weaves his own 1941-college-boy-on-the-cusp-of -war persona throughout the narrative. There are wonderful asides, ranging from Red Barber's early days as the Brooklyn Dodgers radio announcer to the draft woes of Detroit Tigers star Hank Greenberg. But hard as Creamer tries, I never caught the magic of the 1941 games themselves. For how could they compete with the joys of a simpleminded slugfest on ESPN...
...Smith in New Hampshire, Hank Brown in Colorado and Larry Craig help open Senate seats...