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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They were average folks who wanted their children to grow up having sat in the front row of Fenway Park, having chased down a wayward foul ball to the cheers of the other fans in the park, having watched baseball on a Thursday afternoon. The only thing missing was a peanut guy who could hurl a bag of nuts across four rows of people with pinpoint accuracy...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, | Title: Beautiful Game | 4/19/1996 | See Source »

Yesterday's rain forced the postponement of the softball team's doubleheader against Boston College and the baseball team's opening Beanpot game against UMass at Fenway Park...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Additional Contests Postponed | 4/17/1996 | See Source »

...course, ABC hasn't become the Disney Network just yet--and most sources insist it never will--but even casual viewers will start noticing little mouse footprints soon. Along with Roseanne, two other ABC shows--Boy Meets World and Step by Step--have traveled to Disney's Orlando theme park to tape episodes this year. Producers of the shows and network officials insist that these trips were not related to the merger or to one another, pointing out that such on-location episodes usually do well in the ratings. Of course, they're not bad for company image either (Disney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: A BETTER MOUSETRAP? | 4/15/1996 | See Source »

Harryhausen was a master of stop-motion, the laborious, handmade form of animation that lives today in the work of Oscar winner Nick Park (A Close Shave) and Selick, whose previous feature was Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas. This is a jauntier piece--more Disneyfied, perhaps, but still apt to leave a haunting impression on the children who see it. And when they finally read the Dahl book, they may be annoyed. Why, they will wonder, couldn't it be more like this movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: TAKING OUT THE BUGS | 4/15/1996 | See Source »

...women's division. Behind early in the race, Pippig stormed back late in a rally that was the highlight of the race, says TIME's Sam Allis. "People had written off Pippig when she fell behind Kenya's Tegla Loroupe," says Allis, "But right near Fenway Park, she came through with a breathtaking comeback and left Loroupe in her dust." On wheels, Switzerland's Heinz Frei was first to cross the finish line in the men's wheelchair division with a time of 1:30:14 and American Jean Driscoll won an unprecedented seventh consecutive race on the women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kenyan Upsets Champ; Pippig Wins Sixth Race | 4/15/1996 | See Source »

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