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...Baylor homered with a man on to make it interesting, and Henderson did the same with two outs and two strikes to make it excruciating. "We're ballplayers," replied Henderson when asked how with one swing left in the season he managed to block out a mortal fear of failure. "We fail most of the time." Though the Angels tied the game in the bottom of the ninth and still had the bases loaded with only one out, Third Baseman Doug DeCinces and then Grich faltered in the clutch. After a couple of innings of outfielders' banging walls like cymbals...
...sighing, the World Series was on. If the New York Mets and Boston Red Sox take most of this week to realize where they are, it is because playoffs can hang in the air as improbably as homers off the bat of Lenny Dykstra or the glove of Dave Henderson, and neither the National nor American leagues had ever seen such playoffs...
...whirled around Henderson, 28, a spare outfielder whom Boston rescued from Seattle last August after five uneventful seasons with the Mariners. He got into the game in the fifth inning only because regular Centerfielder Tony Armas went lame. Reaching for a Grich liner just below the top of the fence in the sixth, Henderson unwittingly boosted it over the wall to give California a one-run lead that became three by the ninth. Twenty-five-year Manager Gene Mauch, 60, the longest and saddest presider in the game, appeared to be on the brink of a smile. "My emotions have...
...seemed as apt to persevere with a separated shoulder as to demur with a tender hamstring. "You wouldn't call him a gung- ho practice player," Coach Pat Dye recalls fondly. "I'm sure it was like work to him, but it never looked that way. Baseball thinks Rickey Henderson is fast. They're going to find out what speed is. Speed, size, grace, courage. He had everything you'd ever want in a football player...
...free enterprise as the last, best hope for faster economic and social development. Fetters are being taken off industry. Entrepreneurship, the business of starting up companies, is in vogue. "If capitalism means allowing markets to work, then we are seeing some dramatic examples around the world," says David Henderson, chief economist for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development...