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These men needed a pocketful of miracles; they got a couple of lucky breaks. Already on the boards was a proposal by local and state authorities to renovate the ball park. Encouraged by that, Fowler and Larson went to the winter baseball meetings in Houston looking for a major-league...
The ad was a classic of the late '50s: a child runs across a suburban lawn, arms outspread, beaming broadly and shouting, "Look, Mom--no cavities!" That sales pitch, offered when fluoridated toothpastes were introduced, hardly seemed credible. Few American children, nurtured as they were (and still are) on candy...
Carbo was one of the game's finest pinch hitters and one of Lee's best friends on the team. In the middle of the 1978 season when the Sox were in a right pennant race with the Yankees, Carbo was shipped to Cleveland for a $15,000 pocketful of...
Ring-a-ring of roses, A pocketful of posies, Atishoo! Atishoo! We all fall down.
Translated into English as Time of Desecration, the book arrives like an immigrant with a pocketful of soft currency. It is difficult to imagine how an obscenity case about a piece of Italian fiction will cause a stir in the U.S., where hard-core pornography can be bought openly in...