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...DIED. WILLIE ("POPS") STARGELL, 61, baseball Hall of Famer and seven-time All-Star; in Wilmington, North Carolina. Stargell spent 21 seasons hitting cloud-scraping home runs and winning two World Series championships for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Former manager Chuck Tanner reflected, "When you had Willie Stargell on your team, it was like having a diamond ring on your finger...
Harvard has placed an awkward sixth in the country for three straight years, falling short of a three-way tie for third held by the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, the University of Pittsburgh, and Rutgers University, and practically out of sight of the philosophical "Group One" of Princeton University and New York University. And in last year's report, Harvard was the department most often cited as "in decline...
...baseball aficionado - the significance of statistics generally escapes me, and I prefer stories about players' personal tics to even the most thrilling play-by-play commentary. But as someone who grew up in Pittsburgh, I am well aware of the basic facts, which were as indelibly imprinted on my childhood psyche as the indisputable superiority of Heinz ketchup over all other brands...
...Willie Stargell was a spectacular hitter, racking up 475 homers over his career. He was a leader in the dugout and in the locker room, and the city loved him for it. But perhaps even more than it loved Stargell's prowess on the field, Pittsburgh loved his easy manner, his civic boosterism, his infectious dedication to the game. In Pittsburgh, which is often characterized as the ultimate football town, true dedication to baseball is a triumph in and of itself...
...those of us who grew up in the glory days of Pirate baseball, Stargell was the ultimate champion - he embodied the game, and showed us how great the game could be. Last October, 18 years after his retirement, Stargell returned to Pittsburgh to say good-bye to Three Rivers Stadium, where he'd emerged from Clemente's long shadow and hit his stride as a home run hitter. As a frail Stargell cast his gaze around the concrete bowl that had seen his glory days, he waved weakly to a rapturous crowd, and smiled behind his tears...