Word: pittsburgh
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Regarding seven immunized witnesses and several slandered bystanders, exhibits from a cocaine trial that seems to have been conducted on an iceberg tip in Pittsburgh, Ueberroth has been straining under what he termed a "great demand to do something Landis-like." Maybe to reassure the players of his sympathy, maybe to indicate that it has limits, he found a temperate quote from baseball's original commissioner, whose swift justice expelled the 1919 "Black Sox" fixers. "I want every player to feel I stand behind him," Judge Landis had asserted, and here Ueberroth's voice acquired an edge, "so long...
Bypassing both the owners and the union chiefs, Ueberroth wrote to each athlete individually, in plain desperation. But the Players Association acted quickly to forestall him. A few of the enclosed ballots were immediately filled out, and whole teams opted for testing--Pittsburgh Manager Chuck Tanner made the Pirates vote. However, everyone eventually attached a rider requiring the accord of their union. It was not forthcoming. Acting Executive Director Donald Fehr called Ueberroth's appeal silly and suggested that the commissioner was out to make personal news, presumably to some political benefit. Ueberroth said that he was prompted...
CHICAGO--Leon Durham's tie-breaking home run in the second and Jody Davis' two-run shot in the fourth powered Reggie Patterson and the Chicago Cubs to a 4-3 victory yesterday over the Pittsburgh Pirates...
Burly Curtis Strong showed no emotion as he listened to the verdict last week in federal court in Pittsburgh. After nearly nine hours of deliberation, the jury found the former Philadelphia Phillies caterer guilty on eleven charges of selling cocaine to major-league baseball players between 1980 and 1983. Numerous players had been associated with drugs during the twelve-day trial. Star athletes who were once heavy users, including the Kansas City Royals' Lonnie Smith, the Cincinnati Reds' Dave Parker and the New York Mets' Keith Hernandez, were granted immunity to testify against Strong. The convicted dealer faces a maximum...
...crisp single to the opposite field, his trademark for 23 summers, Rose displaces Ty Cobb as baseball' s most prolific hitter. The long- awaited drama has an unexpected poignancy, with the great Cincinnati roughneck in tears amid a sea of cheers. Others still weep for the sport. At the Pittsburgh drug trial, no name is inviolate, not even Willie Mays...