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At the center of the troupe's difficulties is its wiry, intense artistic director, Yuri Grigorovich, 53. There is a widespread feeling among the dancers that he is arbitrary and dictatorial, plays too many favorites and tampers heavyhandedly with the traditional repertory, while stifling new choreography by reserving the...
109. In 1961, the year Roger Maris hit 61 homers, who won the batting title in the A.L.?
Dubbed "Lightning and Thunder" by Teammate Bob Watson, Lynn and Rice form one of the most powerful duos in baseball history. "It's gotta be the strongest one-two punch since Maris and Mantle," says Baltimore Manager Earl Weaver. Batting third and fourth in the Red Sox lineup, Lynn...
And listen to the stories, about Ruth earing an 18-egg omlet, and the time he bellied up to Warren Harding before a game with the Senators and said "Hot as hell, ain't it, Prez?" Or how about the time Don "Perfect Game" Larsen totalled his car during spring...
There's a marvelous photograph here, incidentally, of Maris returning to the Stadium on Old Timers' Day after a decade of bitterness, still wearing the aircraft-carrier haircut, arms spread wide to the applause. It stands out among the over 100 pictures, including some fine old shots of Ruth and...