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...they are probably not alone. Commissioner Peter Ueberroth has been suspicious enough of corked lumber to order increased vigilance, and the bat of the Mets' Howard Johnson has already been X-rayed more than most frequent flyers. In their memoirs, the unsanitary pitcher Gaylord Perry and the unscrupulous slugger Norm Cash explained the rudiments of drooling and drilling. Well, almost every player today can read, and so many of them are handy with tools...
Possibly thanks to McLain, only a few coaches have criticized the tournament drug-testing procedure inaugurated by the N.C.A.A. this year, a painstaking postgame process that forgot to allow for dehydrated athletes. Coach Norm Sloan of Florida, fearing passive contamination, packed up the whole team and fled a Syracuse Holiday Inn when one of the Gators thought he detected a wisp of marijuana smoke curling out of the room next door...
...Moscow Trials of 1936 were, he recalls, "a decisive turning point in my own intellectual and political development . . . I never suspected that ((Stalin)) and the Soviet regime were prepared to violate every fundamental norm of human decency that had been woven into the texture of civilized life." Some friends and colleagues remained lockstep Stalinists, and Hook brings them onstage as object lessons. Lincoln Steffens had famously seen the future in the U.S.S.R. and proclaimed that it worked. It was less well known, notes the author, that Steffens "had previously seen it in Italy . . . where he thought it had also worked...
...year," Charlie Dressen used to advise newer managers, "get a different one the next." Only Rose would understand that this applies to similes as well. Approaching 46, the Reds' player-manager had to leave himself off the winter roster in order to protect a younger man, like Pitcher Norm Charlton, whose finger Rose broke with the first fungo of the season...
Michigan State goaltender Norm Foster made 33 saves, while Maine's Al Loring stopped 26 shots...