Word: hernandez
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though several deans and professors were invited, none attended the forum. Assistant Dean for Race Relations andMinority Affairs Hilda Hernandez-Gravelle said,"The opportunity for students to create a dialoguemight have been disrupted by the presence" of afaculty member...
Carter and Keith Hernandez saw their old selves this season, or at least the last month of it, in the Met apprentice Gregg Jefferies. "He reminds me of me when I was young," sighs first baseman Hernandez, 34. "If he goes one game without a hit, he wants to stick his head in the oven." Scampering up from the minors during the last days of August, wide-eyed, 21 and charitably listed at 5 ft. 10 in., Jefferies showed the team that thought it had everything what had been missing for a while: boyishness and wonder. As Steve...
...play-off snapshots are of Hernandez swimming to third base and drowning a foot from shore, of Los Angeles outfielder Kirk Gibson limping out the grand home runs on a frayed leg injected with cortisone (in the spirit of the times, a steroid; "It's amazing what drugs can do," he said), or of National League president A. Bartlett Giamatti sniffing Dodger relief pitcher Jay Howell's glove for pine tar or caramel ("I felt there could be some amelioration by me," said Giamatti, sounding like Casey Stengel). But the memory is of Jefferies botching a bunt, booting a double...
...Mets threatened in the first when Wally Backman singled and Keith Hernandez walked with one out. But Hershiser retired Darryl Strawberry on a groundout and fanned Kevin McReynolds...
...rookie Gregg Jefferies, who had three hits, led off the ninth with a single and moved to second when Keith Hernandez grounded to first. Darryl Strawberry doubled to right to score Jefferies...