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Hanks plays an alcoholic former major leaguer who is given a last chance for redemption as the Peaches skipper. As a traditional male placed in a distinctly untraditional role, he is given a lot of bluster and vulgarity to play. Too much of it. It forces him away from the reality he's also trying gamely to find. The same could be said of the whole picture. Energetic, full of goodwill and good feelings, it never quite attains the graceful nonchalance and self-confidence with which finely tuned athletes -- and comedies -- move and enchant...
Denizen of sports bars and bleacher seats, failed Little Leaguer and aspiring poet, the sportsman-philosopher has risen from the empty locker room of our collective consciousness to create such classic odysseys as The Natural, Shoeless Joe and The Iowa Baseball Confederacy...
Academic All-America: Tyler Rullman was named to the GTE Academic All-America University Division District I Men's Basketball Team yesterday. Players who make the team regionally qualify for the national ballot. Fellow Ivy-Leaguer, Brown guard Rick Lloyd was also honored, along with Siena guard Bruce Schroeder, Holy Cross forward Jim Nairus and Manhattan center David Althaver...
...field. Fans who swore they would never forgive players for the lockout delay of Opening Day have since misplaced their rancor and delighted in the annual spectacle of stars born and reborn. Cecil Fielder, exiled to Japan last year, signs with Detroit and threatens to become the first American Leaguer to bop 50 home runs since Mantle and Maris in '61. Dave Justice, toiling in Triple A, gets promoted to the haggard Atlanta Braves in mid-May and hits 28 home runs: out of nowhere, into orbit. The arms of half the Dodgers' pitchers fall off, but the slim, steely...
...high school soccer coach. His baseball experience consists of a limited apprenticeship, not entirely remembered fondly. Dave Righetti recalls that in mid-season 1986, the year he set a record with 46 saves, Hank Steinbrenner proposed that the Yankees' ace reliever be immediately replaced by a career minor-leaguer who had just saved his first and only game in the majors. "I don't mind that from George. He signs the checks," says Righetti, the senior statesman among the denizens of baseball's Bronx Zoo. "What got me was how quick Hank was to react. He didn't have...