Word: marzelli
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last year the Cubs won a pennant." Jim Anixter, 38, a wire-company executive from Highland Park, Ill., was a member of a syndicate that attempted unsuccessfully to buy the Cubs from the Wrigley family in 1981 (the team was purchased by Chicago's Tribune Co.). Gene Marzelli, 45, of Palatine, Ill., who designs office interiors, had been working out daily since Thanksgiving. Everyone's favorite goat was Dr. Harry Soloway, 45, a bearded Chicago psychiatrist whose flubbed grounders and muffed flies on the first day prompted a Phoenix sportswriter to call him "probably the worst ballplayer...
...Star players could get at least one at bat and play an inning in the field. The result, after five hours: 23-6. There were no bad scenes. Cubs Veteran Oliver, caught in a rundown, pretended to drop dead. But there were genuine heroic moments too. Ignoring Catcher Marzelli's call for a knuckler, Peoria Corn Farmer Ken Schwab, 55, who had pitched for an Army team more than a quarter-century ago, "reached back a few years for the best fast ball I could find," and struck Ernie Banks out swinging. Catcher Albano and Short stop Ike Ackerman...
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