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...point is not to contrast Cal Ripken Jr. and Nolan Ryan with Lou Gehrig and Johnny Vander Meer, or even to note that "these sports doctors" have enabled many players to considerably extend their careers. But comparisons between baseball then and now should depend on the opinions of a Tommy Lasorda and not a Chuck Connors. In one of the book's better interviews, Lasorda succinctly describes the most pronounced change in baseball: the power shift from the owners to the players. If the stars of the 1950s actually played "for the love of the game" and not for money...
Justices Joseph R. Nolan, Francis P.O'Connor, Neil L. Lynch'52, Herbert P. Wilkins '51 and Chief justice Paul J. Liacos will first hear a 15 minute oral argument from Caroline C. Wittcoff and Laura E. Hankins, third-year law students and members...
...ring he is a joke, standing there like Buddha, hoping some galoot will walk into his earth-orbiting fist. But Foreman, 42 and gaining, laughs as much as anyone. Along with other grand old fogies, like baseball's Nolan Ryan (who at 44 pitched his seventh no-hitter), Foreman answered the sports fan's need for father figures who can still play with the kids...
...ring he is a joke, standing there like Buddha, hoping some galoot will walk into his earth-orbiting fist. But Foreman, 42 and gaining, laughs as much as anyone. Along with other grand old fogies, like baseball's Nolan Ryan (who at 44 pitched his seventh no-hitter), Foreman answered the sports fan's need for father figures who can still play with the kids...
Josephine Roberson positions a chalk line along the top of a sheet of plywood as Nolan Derouen flicks the taut string and imprints a fuzzy red stripe across the board. They slice the wood to size, carry it into Betty Hines' living room and nail it to the ceiling. Hines works at the back of the room, straining from the rungs of a ladder as she attaches tiles to the plywood with the aid of one of Derouen's assistants. Heavy rains, excessive groundwater and years of neglect in southern Louisiana's sugarcane region have led to creeping decay...