Word: phenoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This green new season, the winner so far is Kevin Baker's first novel, Sometimes You See It Coming. This one ends the way a baseball story should: three and two, two out in the ninth, legend at bat. It starts with a young phenom, a rangy, unsmiling white kid named John Barr, who turns up in the shabby locker room of a Class A team in the West Virginia coalfields. He hasn't played organized ball. He doesn't even own a set of spikes...
...period of a preseason skirmish, Manon Rheaume, 20, was in goal for the N.H.L.'s Tampa Bay Lightning, and her bosses say she has a chance to make the team. Can her achievement be a harbinger of gender integration? We bet there's a Little League tomboy phenom who could play shortstop for the Yankees someday. (And soon, please!) We also bet Oprah Winfrey could take George Foreman...
Cartoon Character: Princeton's junior phenom, running back Keith Elias, has probably been called a lot of names in his life time, but boring certainly isn't one of them...
Neither did the Crimson's frosh phenom. Milhollin, who sports an outstanding .900 save percentage in the Ivies, tallied 21 saves for the Crimson...
Sophomore phenom Mike Giardi had just led the Crimson to a near upset of Division I-A Army and optimism was higher than high tide in the Bay of Fundy...