Word: pete
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...particularly unsettling development has the sister cities of St. Pete and Tampa at each other's wryneck throats. Bucking nature and tradition, both have been bidding for full-time baseball, either an expansion team or a carpetbagger. Tampa has gone so far as to draw up blueprints for a domed stadium. St. Pete has gone much further: the skeleton of its dome has already been assembled on the former site of a gas plant (prompting a Tampa editorial cartoonist to depict the players and fans in gas masks). The state is growing, and Floridians no longer believe...
...female umpire. But in the 100 years since baseball teams first came South, alterations have seemed slight. The late writer Francis Stann of the late newspaper the Washington Star once asked the failing Babe Ruth in his camel-hair coat what ( he remembered about Al Lang Stadium in St. Pete. Motioning toward an old hotel a full city block beyond the right-field fence, Ruth rasped, "The day I hit the West Coast Inn." "Wow!" said Stann. "Pretty good belt." "But don't forget," Ruth added, "the park was a block back toward this way then...
Harvard's captain and all-time leading scorer, Scott Fusco, had injured his knee and was sitting in the stands. Pete Follows, who hadn't played in a month, took his place. Unfortunately, Follows was better know for his sketches than his hockey artistry...
...local media interviews, Teeley takes Bush aside and whispers Dole campaign gossip: Brock and Dole are rumored to be not speaking. Bush frowns. "Well, I guess we should just keep plugging ahead on the high road," Bush says. "I know that's going to be tough for you, Pete," he adds kiddingly, and then slugs Teeley on the arm. The first question at the local press conference is from a blond local TV reporter in black Reeboks: "Mr. Vice President, how do you stay in such great shape...
Senate Minority Leader Robert Dole had the final say in choosing the remaining four Republicans on the commission: Pete Domenici, the ranking minority member of the Senate Budget Committee; Bill Frenzel, a member of the House Ways and Means Committee; Donald Rumsfeld, who served as Defense Secretary under President Gerald Ford; and Dean Kleckner, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation. The Democratic leaders of the House and Senate chose their own batch of household names: Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca; Investment Banker Felix Rohatyn; Lane Kirkland, president of the AFL- CIO; and Robert Strauss, former chairman of the Democratic National...