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Lasorda catered to the journeymen as much as he did to the regulars, lunching with the No. 7 outfielder, enveloping a utility infielder with praise. Injured players struggling to come back from surgery-Pitcher Tommy John, Outfielders Dusty Baker and Reggie Smith-were bombarded with encouragement by the chunky Dale Carnegie in Dodger Blue. Always, the message was the same: The Dodgers will win. Says Reggie Smith: "He allowed us to share. He gave us a greater sense of being part of something, and we had to believe in ourselves because he never doubted us. He preached to us from...
Only a man steeped in the theater as Shakespeare was could have conjured up a band of rustics bent on drumming up a play to honor their sovereign's wedding. He cast them as journeymen actors arduously bent on not missing a cue while botching up a scene. With their comic earthiness, they very nearly steal the show. As for lofty gravity and the true melodic rendering of the Shakespearean line, Maggie Smith is one of the sweetest singers this side of Avon...
Sewell and Lopez also hung up their spikes as seasoned journeymen. Lopez played for 19 years but made his reputation as a manager. Sewell played 1,103 consecutive games in pinstripes, the fourth longest streak of all time...
...gains for the blacks who work for GM have been less spectacular. Sullivan claims that GM has placed more than 5,000 blacks in white-collar jobs since he joined the company, and added 2,500 more black journeymen and apprentices. Still, blacks last year filled 16.8% of GM's blue-collar jobs-no more than in 1972-and 7% of the white-collar posts, the same proportion as in 1973. When Sullivan became a director, he called loudly for "more black dealerships-I don't mean ten more or 20 more, I mean hundreds more, ultimately." Nonetheless...
...make a fine short sea novel. The writing, in general, is dogged, honest and unbrilliant, and to chronicle the Greenland patrol, those qualities are sufficient. The sea supplies the power and depth missing in his dry-land work, just as similar sagas of water and war have served other journeymen writers well...