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Spaceman and I were sitting under the intense heat, bombarded by devouring mass-media madness thrown up for TV cameras by worshipping little boys and the old timers ready to follow the Red Sox off of the earth for a pennant because they are tired of losing...
...friends spent vacation in Bermuda, and have come back the color of either coffee ice-cream or the inside of a watermelon. I spent vacation in a mid-Atlantic city which shall be nameless (hint: its baseball team has managed to bomb chances to win the NL pennant for two years running), and look and feel like a mashed potato. So if you're expecting a witty, urbane and informative column on the current state of the Boston theater, forget...
...slippers and carrying a pair of elegant red sandals, she pads across to where she will be photographed against a white paper drop. She grins at an onlooker. She can look a 6-ft. 2-in. man in the eye. The red flower in her hair looks like a pennant at the masthead of a racing sloop. Ellen Merlo has said that the one overriding reason for Tiegs' appeal is that her sexiness is not forbidding to men or offensive to women. This seems logical; how could anyone take offense at a sailboat...
...best interests of baseball" is obviously a catchall phrase that eludes precise definition, but Kuhn was in this case attempting to maintain a competitive balance in the National League. His desire to prevent the Big Red Machine from running away with the pennant is an understandable one, but Kuhn will be hardpressed to justify the $400,000 ceiling he has put on the sale of players...
...from the Mexican League, bunted safely. Manny Mota-told in the spring that his responsibility was pinch-hitting because "when you open your suitcase, four hits fall out"-doubled off the wall in left field. A flurry of Dodger hits and Los Angeles was one game away from the pennant. Asked what had been his instructions to his players in the frantic final minutes, Lasorda replied: "I didn't say anything to Davalillo. I didn't say anything to Mota. I didn't say anything to anybody. I was only talking to God." But when...