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...Nobody ever got further with less talent," Eddie Stanky has said of his eleven-year playing career in the majors-during which he batted only .268 but played in three World Series and earned a well-deserved reputation as the meanest, toughest, loudest scrapper in the business. "The Brat" was an expert at collecting bases on balls, breaking up double plays, and heckling and generally enraging opponents. Now 49 and in his second year as manager of the Chicago White Sox, who last week were leading the American League by 4½ games, Stanky insists that he is as smooth...
...Milne must have slept ever so peacefully. Probably no one in the past 200 years had a tamer sense of evil. The meanest creatures he could conceive of were the stoats, ferrets and weasels he put on stage in a dramatic adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. And they're absolutely adorable...
...where he expected the Rangers to be. A diminutive ex-goalie, Francis took over as coach in the middle of the 1965-66 season, when the Rangers had a reputation for being slick stick handlers-but short on muscle. His answer was to stock the squad with the strongest, meanest players he could find. From Boston, he obtained Reggie Fleming, the No. 1 "bad boy" in the N.H.L., who leads the league with 80 minutes of penalty time. From Toronto, Francis landed Wingman Orland ("K.O.") Kurtenbach, proud possessor of "the fastest fists in hockey...
...ironic for the Lincoln Center Theater to be doing this play, since the troupe specializes in turning dramatic gold into lead. Some new actors are present, notably Michael O'Sullivan, a mutilatingly funny man. They help to steal the show from Jonson, but pickpocketing a classic is the meanest form of tribute. Body English is slammed at the playgoer, but he never hears the king...
Relief Pitcher Dick Hall is an amateur mathematician who on drizzly afternoons amuses himself trying to predict whether a game will be called off -by calculating the number of raindrops falling per second on one square foot of the field. Rightfielder Frank Robinson used to be known as "the meanest man in the National League," before he was traded to the Orioles by the Cincinnati Reds last winter. Now he is the meanest man in both leagues -with the possible exception of Baltimore Manager Hank Bauer (TIME cover, Sept...