Word: pittsburgh
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...Reagan over the phone. For some reason, Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth and National League President Chub Feeney missed it too. Not only did Rose score both runs and make a defensive dive for the final out, but unbelievably in the seventh inning, he duplicated his inaugural 1963 triple off Pittsburgh's Bob Friend, an identical shot into the left-field corner. Could Rose be starting over? "In total bases, I'm right on Babe Ruth's heels now," he said, meaning 116 behind. "And I've got a chance to catch Cobb in runs...
Modern baseball players acquainted with Little Big Guys shared the week's news columns. Rose's warm moment was a distraction and counterbalance to the drug scandal, though redemption goes too far. During the Pittsburgh trial, Rose's name was tossed around loosely when one of those informed reformers, certainly not reformed informers, ran out of fresh cocaine and started throwing stale amphetamines. Except to say that he didn't think much of the proceedings, Rose resisted efforts to stretch a single into a symbol...
...trial was Accused Cocaine Dealer Curtis Strong, but it was major league baseball on the defensive last week as testimony continued in a Pittsburgh federal court. Four more players took the stand to say that Strong had been a matchmaker in their love affairs with cocaine. They also kept naming names, bringing to 21 the number of current and former players alleged in court to have used coke. Shockingly, perhaps unfairly, the sorry tale of illegal drug involvement stretched back through the years to touch two of the game's immortals: Willie Stargell and Willie Mays...
Both Madlock and Stargell denied the accusation, which was made again on the stand two days later by Cincinnati Outfielder Dave Parker, a former Pirate. It was an unwelcome charge anywhere, but especially in Pittsburgh, where Stargell is beloved as the man who led the Pirates "family" to its 1979 World Series victory. "I can't believe that Willie would be involved in that," Pirates President Daniel Galbreath said to the Pittsburgh Post- Gazette. "In fact, I doubt...
...women's tennis squad experienced one of its best-ever recruiting years. Among the top candidates for Coach Don Usher's netwomen are Jackie Farrell, Kristin Bland and Louise Zonis, all from the Boston area; Cindy Buchsbaum of Tucson, Ariz.; and Martha Berkman of Pittsburgh...