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...team called up the left-hander--the third player and first non-pitcher this year--to help in the intense pennant battle in the National League East division. The Expos are currently in third place, two games behind the Pittsburgh Pirates and a game and a half behind the Cardinals...
Stenhouse's father, Dave, was a pitcher for the Washington Senators in the early 1960s and currently coaches the Brown team. "I recognized his talent his first year at Harvard when he really fared well against all the competition," he said adding that the family first got wind of a possible move about 10 days...
...designer and stage manager before he took his theatrical flair into industrial design. One of Wright's earliest and handsomest pieces, designed in the mid-'30s, was a "corn set" made of chromium-plated brass and consisting of a 5¼-in.-high melted-butter pitcher and salt and pepper shakers on a tray. His first popular hit was an assortment of spun aluminum accessories: vases, teapots, spaghetti sets and "sandwich humidors," all buffed to a pewter sheen. In a burst of breathless feature stories on informal entertaining and other trends, Wright was hailed as an innovator...
...other side makes a good play they don't sit on their hands like a lot of American fans." Often they clap their hands to the tune of The Happy Wanderer. "When you're on a roll and going good," says Steve Rogers, Montreal's best pitcher, "it's nothing to have them give you six standing ovations in a single game." Rogers can think of a few negatives in Canada: high taxes, inflated costs, language barriers. "But overall it's like a little touch of Europe," he says. "I love...
...think Canadians understand baseball a lot better than Americans understand hockey," says Bob Bourne, an expert witness. Before ever playing left wing for the New York Islanders, Bourne was a minor league infielder in the Houston Astros' system. (The Astros outfielder Terry Puhl and the Chicago Cubs pitcher Ferguson Jenkins are the most eminent of the few Canadian-born major leaguers.) "I learned to play baseball on the farm, against the wall at the back of the barn," says Bourne, who comes from the sweet-sounding town of Netherhill. "It can be a simple or a complicated game...