Word: pete
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Twenty years later, Pete du Pont's ambitions are again being met with incredulity. Surely, when the former Republican Governor of Delaware called a press conference last September in the Hotel du Pont and announced that he was running for President, he had to be kidding. When even the urbane Robert Dole contrasts his plebeian Kansas roots with the preppie background of the front runner, George Bush, a du Pont of Delaware hasn't got a chance. What skeptics do not understand is that, in his own mind, Pete du Pont is a self-made man, one who rebelled against...
Despite the dogs' bloody reputation, owners such as Laue insist that purebred pit bulls have a "steady temperament and intense loyalty." Indeed, breeders believe that in time the animal will regain its gentler image of the 1930s, when a pit bull played Pete in the Our Gang films. Only 30 years ago, notes Ed Almeida, a dog trainer in El Monte, Calif., the Doberman was the most vicious of dogs. Now, he says, after years of careful breeding, Dobermans are "big boobs" compared with the pit bulls...
This situation should be called to the attention of Baseball Commissioner Pete Ueberroth. Just imagine all the games that the Houston Astros (or any team) could have won if its catcher was allowed to catch foul balls off the net behind home plate...
...usual when a flood of newly minted goods hits the market, rarities of yesteryear have become more valuable. So-called rookie cards marking the first appearance of such stars as the Cincinnati Reds' Pete Rose, for example, have jumped tenfold in price over the past five years. A Rose card is now worth as much as $450. On the other hand, images of New York Mets Pitcher Dwight Gooden have fared poorly. Gooden's recent drug disability has sent his 1984 Fleer rookie card crashing in value from $120 to $70 in a matter of weeks...
Free agency has featured its share of superstars--Steve Garvey, Reggie Jackson, Bob Boone, Pete Rose, Andre Dawson, Graig Nettles, Gary Carter. But it has also produced its share of duds--Steve Kemp, Dave Goltz, Rick Honeycutt, Jason Thompson...