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...late." Besides Yaz, Rose and Perez, the only other over-40s enjoying extra innings are Pittsburgh's Pop, Willie Stargell, 41, and Pitchers Jim Kaat, 43, of St. Louis, Woodie Fryman, 42, of Montreal, Phil Niekro, 43, of Atlanta, and Gaylord Perry, 43, of Seattle. In the offseason, tennis fortifies Rose. Yaz, because of his chronically creaky back, is unable to run for exercise, so he pedals a bicycle in the winter and swings a leaded bat daily, relentlessly. Both say the physical part is the easy part. Rose's ex-teammate Johnny Bench, though only...
...squash regimen includes three-hour practice days in the fall and winter, workouts five days a week in the summer, and running and conditioning up to four or five miles a day during the spring offseason...
...same guy who had travelled with my Mets into the way-below-1500 doldrums of the NL East, like Dante into the depths of the Inferno, was actually managing a division-leading ball club. He must have endured purgatory some time during the offseason. I thought to myself...
Even though Coast Guard attracts many fine Eastern teams including Columbia, Hofstra, and UMass, other Crimson grapplers should fare quite well. Andy McNerney, the unsung hero of the team, has been training in the offseason, and returns with a number of awards under his belt including a first place finish at the World Game for the Deaf in Cologne, West Germany. Among the other tested wrestlers, Rick Beller looks forward to a strong season, starting with victories at Coast Guard...
...second playoff spot might go to Chicago, since it was 31-22 before the strike, while Kansas City started off with a dismal 20-30 showing. White Sox Manager Tony LaRussa and his starting players admitted that they were not above chicanery if it meant derailing the Royals. Said offseason Attorney LaRussa: "If it got to that peculiar circumstance where if you won a ball game, you lost a spot in the playoffs, then I would refuse to take the field and accept a forfeit...