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...part of young gays who have "come out" before friends and family. The assignment occasionally took the correspondents to gay bars, once noted for their gamy ambience. Many have now become clean, well-lighted places where straights feel unthreatened, if not wholly at ease. Behavior Writer John Leo wrote the story, which was researched by Anne Hopkins and Gaye Mclntosh and edited by Ruth Brine...
...Leo Durocher might be remembered as the greatest shortstop of his generation (1928-42). He could be celebrated as the manager who was to baseball what Humphrey Bogart was to movies. His wild four-decade career was marked by fights with bleacherites, tantrums with umpires and owners, marital misadventures and a one-season suspension for consorting with known gamblers. Yet if Leo the Lip is to be recalled by future generations, it may be for his signal contribution to literature. There he sits in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, sandwiched between John Betjeman and W.H. Auden: "Nice guys finish last...
According to Durocher, that reputation, like stadium hot dogs, is highly adulterated. By his own witness, he is a man with a heart as big as the Astrodome. To be sure, Leo is of the Vince Lombardi persuasion: "Show me a good loser in professional sports," he declares, "and I'll show you an idiot." But having thumbed sportsmanship out of the game, the Lip spends the rest of his book atoning for his early excesses-by introducing some worse ones...
...recollects, he was a family man, an inspirational leader who could exhort his players in a style that might make Pat O'Brien misty. His enmities, claims Leo, were transient, his friendships permanent. Sidney Weil, onetime owner of the Cincinnati Reds, with whom the Lip did many a dubious battle, is "the nicest, kindest man I have ever known." Ed Barrow of the Yankees, a notorious Durocher rival, is "the best friend I had in baseball." Branch Rickey, another erstwhile enemy, is "the great man" in Leo's life...
...aphor for many youthful aspirations, not all of them athletic. Moreover, his loss is the reader's gain, for out of Ex-Pitcher Jordan's experience has come one of the best and truest books about baseball, and about coming to maturity hi America. Leo Durocher's book is worth reading. Pat Jordan's is worth remembering...