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...used to manage the Reds," Anderson informed two Soviet scouts who came to Lakeland a couple of weeks ago to solicit fundamentals. "It's a bad soldier who doesn't dream to be a general," said Alexander Ardatov, coach of the Soviets' budding national team. "Right," Sparky told him, "and if you can hit, you can play...
Yesterday the Red Sox opened up in Florida, split squads talking on the Tigers in Lakeland and the Chunichi Dragons in Winter Haven. In less than a month the Red Sox open up at Fenway Park...
With a sigh that carries the fences at Lakeland, Anderson says, "Every player who comes to a new town tells how happy he is. I wish just one guy would stand up and say, 'I hate your town, I hate your team, I hate your manager. I'm here for one reason: you shelled out the most.' " Perhaps the least cynical Tiger is Steve Searcy, a stylish left-hander (wearing a CAN'T MISS tag). Searcy had a small stake in the free-agent war. He wants Parrish's number...
Among other recent arrivals is the Asian cockroach, which, unlike the too familiar German variety, flies and -- most ominously -- lives happily both indoors and out. Phillip Koehler, an entomologist at the University of Florida, received a phone call last fall from a pest-control company in Lakeland, Fla., a city 36 miles east of Tampa. "They thought they had a heavy infestation of German cockroaches," he recalls. The difference between the two species became clear when the bugs, attracted by light, began flocking toward people's homes. "In the evening, when they are most active," says Koehler, "they literally cover...
...could always see a diamond. "I was a daydreamer," he confesses. "When I'd step into the Little League batter's box, I'd think, 'I'm Pete Rose, I'm Al Kaline.' " For hitting two home runs in a forgotten spring-training game 15 years ago at Lakeland, Detroit's Hall of Fame rightfielder is Gooden's ideal still. "I just fell in love with him for the way he played that one game when I was six." Why? "He dominated...