Word: mariano
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...tabloids grew tired of Derek and Mariano and only gazed towards the South Bronx when the Champs nearly lost Bernie...
...Pedro de Macoris overflows with dreams of baseball greatness. U.S. and Japanese teams run a dozen baseball camps here, and players like Mariano Duncan, Julio Franco, Jose Offerman and Joaquin Andujar all played on the ragged diamonds...
When a team isn't dependent on stars, it develops an immunity against injury. Centerfielder Bernie Williams, shortstop Derek Jeter and relief pitcher Mariano Rivera, the team's three best and most reliable players, have all spent time on the disabled list this season. But like members of some impassioned guerrilla army, as each man has fallen, another has risen in his place. It is to this fungibility of parts that one must attribute their astonishing record of 68-23 through their first 91 games, for a winning percentage of .747. That pace, if sustained, would put them in reach...
Although Dr. Thomas Royer, chief medical officer of Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital, doesn't normally handle admissions, he made an exception when a call came in from Dr. Connie Mariano, who is Bill Clinton's personal physician. It wasn't the President who needed treatment but someone who would soon be getting just as much attention: Wei Jingsheng, China's most renowned dissident. The White House had been tipped off that Wei, who had spent most of the past 18 years in prison, would soon be released, and the Administration was helping make arrangements to whisk him away...
...forget Johnson and Andy Pettitte, all year long the AL's most feared left-handers, a combined 0-4, with a better than 7.00 ERA. And while Seattle's bullpen was typically awful, even the mighty Mariano Rivera, purveyor of the awe-inspiring "easy gas" high-90s fastball, succeeded in blowing his tenth save by serving up Alomar's backbreaking Game 4 blast...