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December 1978: Meeting Atlanta Braves Pitcher Phil Niekro, he notes: "I didn't know you were a Polack. I thought you were a bastardized...
Perhaps Borg's most effective weapon is his unbending determination. Tennis is not just a game, but a contest of wills comparable only to that between two prizefighters or a pitcher and a hitter. For all its elaborate etiquette, its hushed crowds and blazered officials, its serene and verdant settings, tennis is hand-to-hand combat. It is the sizzling serve that leaves an opponent unable to lift the racquet, the passing shot that crushes the spirit, the drop shot or lob that bounces and dies far beyond reach. In the closing games
...best-looking guy in baseball? When the Baltimore Orioles came to play Seattle, the matter was put before the supreme judges of player pulchritude: the Mariners' wives. The surprising result: a home-town favorite, Pitcher Rick Honeycutt, placed second to Orioles Pitcher Jim Palmer in a ranking of baseball's top ten hunks. The criteria for the contest were a little unclear, observed Debbie Honeycutt, wife of the runner-up. "We weren't sure whether they wanted it from the neck up, the neck down or both." Palmer modestly admits his ads for Jockey briefs may have...
...Alevizos, Crimson pitcher emeritus (much more impressive-sounding than "former"), best of luck. The Cubs need...
DIED. Richard W. ("Rube") Marquard, 90, Hall of Fame pitcher for the old New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers, whose string of 19 victories in a row at the start of the 1912 season remains a record; of cancer; in Baltimore...