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Gender, not sex, figured prominently in Kentucky, which elected its first woman Governor. Moreover, Lieutenant Governor Martha Layne Collins, 46, will be the Democrats' highest elected female official. A former home-economics teacher, she soundly beat State Senator Jim Bunning, 52, a former major league pitcher. Neither candidate had much administrative experience, and neither focused very clearly on state issues such as acid rain and the decline of the coal industry. Collins only tepidly supports the Equal Rights Amendment. Bunning came off as an unimaginative conservative...
...ballplayers have a hand at milking them. The team is a collection of youths on the way up and burned-out cases on the way down. There is the hot prospect (Patrick Cassidy) who is a terror in the outfield and a bed wetter at home. And the hick pitcher (Barry Tubbs) who appears to get height sickness when he climbs the pitcher's mound. And Rocky, the brawny third baseman (Ken Olin), a con man in pinstripes who hankers to croon the national anthem to a salsa beat. And an aging slugger (Bernie Casey) awarded a "previously owned...
...named exactly right. You could use your Vaseline, your oils, your earwax, or what I think is primo, the gooey white kind of spit that conies after drinking a lotta milk." Later, when an umpire spies a foreign substance on the ball, the freshly instructed young pitcher (Perry Lang) is not only humiliated but disarmed. When he returns home after the game, he discovers his wife in a compromising squeeze play with the cable TV installer. Shocked and dumbfounded, he screams at her, "Is he at least gonna give you free cable...
Notable alumni returning for Harvard are quarterbacks Jim Kubacki '76, the coach of the Crimson's freshman team, and Larry Brown '78, now a pitcher for the San Diego Padres' AAA farm team...
LaMarr Hoyt. chicago white Sox right handed pitcher who led the major leagues with 24 victories this year was named the winner of the Cy Young Award in the American League yesterday...