Word: lucchesi
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...wife during the game over the bullpen phone. He, by the way, is played by Peter Fox '72, an alumnus of the Hasty Pudding Theatrical Society. The pitching corps consists of Frito (Bobby DiCicco), a Bruce Springsteen-loving Hispanic; Duke (Wesley Thompson), a self-proclaimed persecuted Black; Moose (Vince Lucchesi), an over-the-hill knuckler; Ripper (Artie Gerunda), a Harvard educated alcoholic; and Tank (Eddie Frierson), a not-too-swift minded hurler...
...Billy Martin (Yankees), Jack McKeon (A's), Bobby Winkles (A's), Frank Lucchesi (Rangers), Eddie Stanky (Rangers), Connie Ryan (Rangers), and Billy Hunter (Rangers), in that order...
Ozark was the surprise choice of Phillies' general manager Paul Owens, who has acted as the club's field manager since he fired Frank Lucchesi last July...
Captured Moments. The most ornate stylist in this group is Italian-born Bruno Lucchesi, whose vibrant Tuscan peasants and East Village hippies are currently on view at Manhattan's Forum Gallery. Like Verkade, Lucchesi has a stop-action photographic eye and delights in off-center, cantilevered poses that seem to defy the laws of gravity. He too specializes in capturing moments of everyday human drama. One work in his current exhibition shows an old woman lying on her deathbed with a grief-stricken young girl stretched out across her legs. "It's a tribute to my mother...
...Lucchesi's sculptures are as Italian as Verkade's are Dutch. He works up his figures with a quattrocento Florentine passion for detail, and flings off flying draperies with the airy exuberance of a Bernini. The son of a Tuscan shepherd too poor to send him to art school, he learned his first lessons from the monuments in cemeteries, later managed to study in Florence. There he met and married a Brooklyn girl; and when they came to America in 1957, he began to exhibit in his father-in-law's picture-frame shop in Greenwich Village...