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When moral rules are bent, more than sport is mangled. In the end, it is not the players who are cheapened and injured, nor even the event itself. It is the children and adults who watch and then repeat what they see on the playground and in the stands - and perhaps in their lives. The Bad News Bears is not yet a sports documentary. But what if it be comes one? Would any title be more fitting than that of another movie: End of the Game? Stefan Kanfer
...Charles E. Fraser was a Yale-educated lawyer who knew little about real estate, but he did know Hilton Head Island, S.C. His father owned land there, and Fraser was convinced that the alligator-infested island could be turned into a playground for the sports-minded rich. So he borrowed from an insurance company (pledging as collateral pine trees that could be turned into valuable pulpwood) and began developing the 4,500-acre Sea Pines Plantation. It became a world-renowned resort that respected the environment -the pine trees are still standing, and the 'gators and a host...
Last week, black and white children were exercising in the playground of St. Mary's Mission school on Balboa Road, while parents picked over the shelves of the Pancanal commissary, where eggs sell for 720 a dozen and cigarettes $3.10 a carton. On the entrance, across from the post office and movie theater, a 1776 marching scene and patriotic colors are painted. Only an Indian selling "mola," pretty San Bias Island decorative cloth, suggests that this...
Kaiser and Smith are at their best with the unique character of Russians - their glazed and hostile public faces that dissolve in private in almost alarming conviviality. Their sentimentality and love of children - the obsessive way in which a babushka watches a child in a playground to make sure its rump never touches the snow. Their alcoholism - vodka bottles come with tear-off metal tops, and the bottle, once opened, must be finished. Their chilling fear of strangers and even friends - the result of long experience with informers...
...Rose, arrived in his Silver Shadow Rolls-Royce to work out at a West Tampa park normally used by Little Leaguers. New York Mets Pitching Ace Tom Seaver cadged $2 each from a pickup team of ballplayers to buy baseballs for early-March makeshift practice sessions. Like a youthful playground gang, a group of Oakland A's slipped through a hole in the fence of their sealed ballpark in Mesa, Ariz., to sneak in a little illegal batting practice...