Word: offseason
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Burgundy is a region for meandering. Not surprisingly, the houseboat has gained great popularity. Ten companies have set up rent-a-boat fleets along the rivers and canals. For an average $550 per week, not including food and fuel, in July and August ($300 offseason) a family crew of four can drift through the region at 4 m.p.h., tying up along the way to picnic or sightsee. Local tourist offices list furnished houses renting from $175 to $550 a week for a family of four. Top price for a double room in the Château d'Ig?...
LARRY BROWN, senior quarterback. A third team All-American baseball pitcher in the offseason, the right-handed signalcaller will look to improve on his impressive signalcalling performance of '78 (see profile, page 42). Look for Brownie to duplicate his record-breading aerial show of '77, and also look for his new all-white spikes...
...Haines was signed up for the then considerable sum of $10,000 by Branch Rickey, manager of the Cardinals. Haines relied on his knuckle-ball to compile a 210-158 lifetime won-lost record with a 3.64 earned run average. A quiet player who tended a commercial garage offseason, he pitched until he was 44, earning the fond nickname "Pop" from his teammates, the "Gashouse Gang...
...simple and welcoming," says Misha. Balanchine was also reassuring about his vaunted control over City Ballet. "I don't keep my dancers like horses," he told Baryshnikov. "They are free. We are free." (In fact, Baryshnikov will continue to make lucrative guest appearances during City Ballet's offseason...
...return could be hobbled by a new problem: he has diabetes. But team doctors stress that his condition can be controlled with medication, and other top athletes have played successfully despite the disease.* Don Gullett also struggled through last season with shoulder miseries, and newly acquired Andy Messersmith underwent offseason elbow surgery. If healthy, however, the Yankee pitchers could be awesome: together they have won 443 major league games. That should be good enough for another fun-filled and tension-packed episode of As the World Series Turns...