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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ECAC: 8-13-1 (ninth...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Who Will Earn an Invitation to...... the ECAC Garden Party? | 11/11/1988 | See Source »

...says, "People tend to label you aninsider, which is probably true--only that theinsider has brought those issues, which used to beon the outside, on the inside. I didn't have tojump and scream at Harvard when they came to theCity Council, because I had one ninth of thatpower, to vote them up or vote them down...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Trying to Hold On | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

Wylie, who participated in the Winter Games of this year's Olympics and placed ninth in his event, also realizes the value of a solid education. "I just don't think that skating is a long term deal. If there's an endowment in you of a brain you shouldn't waste it," he says...

Author: By Melanie R. Williams, | Title: Skating and Partying With the Stars | 11/3/1988 | See Source »

...start things off, on consecutive nights in Los Angeles, something close to the ultimate hitter's and pitcher's daydreams were played out in such implausible detail that it strained decency. The A's led in the ninth inning of the first game, 4-3. Had there been one out instead of two, two on instead of one, that would have been enough. But the win-or-lose situation was perfectly framed, as that stubbly spirit Gibson emerged from the infirmary to take his only hack on crippled legs that said home run or nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Series of Ultimate Fantasies | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

...home, Oakland won the third game, 2-1, on a ninth-inning homer by Mark McGwire off Jay Howell. But a day later, Howell coerced McGwire into popping up with the bases loaded to save a 4-3 victory. The A's started to get the picture. To assist in melodrama, a clutter of wounded Dodgers joined Gibson and Dr. Frank Jobe in the training room. The patients of Jobe included Mike Marshall, Mike Scioscia and starting pitcher John Tudor, whose elbow gave out, maybe forever, after only four batters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Series of Ultimate Fantasies | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

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