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Writing about the same fears in If I'm So Successful, Why Do I Feel Like a Fake? (St. Martin's Press; $14.95), Joan C. Harvey, a Philadelphia clinical psychologist, claims that the more these sufferers succeed the more terrified of failure they become. From boardroom to operating room, she says, many people who are seen as star performers in their fields agonize that they may be unmasked...
...word. "Twenty-five years ago, they gave me $400 a month to play baseball. I couldn't believe it. For being Rookie of the Year in 1963, I got a $5,000 raise that brought me up to $12,500. My last season in Philadelphia [1983], I made more than $10,000 a game--a game. But all along, I've played for fun and showed...
...near the end of an interview, he observed casually, "Cobb took this long to get 1,861." By 1981, when Rose led the league in hits at the age of 40, but 55 games were struck, he was heard to worry, "Cobb is getting further away." If not in Philadelphia at the mean end of the 1983 World Series against Baltimore, then in Montreal at the bad beginning of last year, the chase seemed doomed. Thanks in huge measure to Rose, their richest free agent, the Phillies in 1980 finally celebrated a world title after 97 barren years, but when...
...World Series has been worthy enough to make people at least review the others for comparison. No souls should be lost over this one. "After 1980 I carried it around for about two years," recalled Royals Centerfielder Willie Wilson, who struck out twelve times in six games against Philadelphia, including the last swing off Tug McGraw. "Every time I woke up, Tug was striking me out. I was the one who lost the World Series. I felt so negative about myself that I hibernated. I didn't go outside in the day. I came out at night." He calls...
...wounded reaction to the U.S.'s diversion of its plane carrying the Achille Lauro hijackers. If Egypt were a true friend of the U.S.'s, it would not have been so quick to release the killers of an American into the "custody" of their P.L.O. comrades. Kenneth Gold Philadelphia...