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...article, Gould uses the art of baseball number-crunching, which he calls sabermatrics, to prove Mantle was the most well-rounded player of the era. But Gould also emphasizes the dichotomy between Mantle the common man and the public's glorified portrait of Mantle the legend...
...warning in 1980 when he titled the first volume of this continuing autobiography Unreliable Memoirs. He cheerfully admits to rearranging details and changing names (an American writer becomes Alexander Lobrau, a construction company is called Piranesi Brothers). And no character sketch is more heightened in its absurdity than his portrait of his younger self, about whom everything apparently was hopeless: his head for alcohol, his "Medusa touch" in everyday affairs, even his clothes. One of the best running jokes concerns a Singapore-made suit whose shoulders engulfed his head whenever he gestured with his arms, causing mystifying blackouts...
...president of Ted Bates Advertising/New York. At the same time, Jacoby elevated two of his favorites without getting any nod from the Saatchis. The brothers retaliated by dumping Jacoby from the top job and installing Zuckert. The combative Jacoby heightened the melodrama, whether intentionally or not, by removing his portrait from a prominent wall at the agency and by accusing the Saatchis of breaking his five-year contract. "I don't know what happened. They hadn't told me they were going to do this," Jacoby says...
...Dennis ("Oil Can") Boyd's locker was a portrait of Satchel Paige wearing his Negro Leagues Kansas City Monarchs uniform. Over the 39 years they have been allowed to win World Series' games, six black pitchers have done it: Joe Black of Brooklyn, Bob Gibson of St. Louis, Jim ("Mudcat") Grant of Minnesota, John Wyatt of Boston, John ("Blue Moon") Odom of Oakland and Grant Jackson of Pittsburgh. Before the third game, when the Mets appeared ready to be vanquished if not swept in Boston, Boyd began to imagine himself in the baggy flannels of another day. By the time...
Novelist Rybakov, 75, is best known for his adventure stories and children's books, as well as the 1978 novel Heavy Sand, about Soviet Jews' persecution by the Nazis during World War II. He describes his new work, which is set in the year 1934, as a "group portrait" of his own generation at a time when Stalin was consolidating power before the Great Terror. In the manner of Tolstoy's War and Peace, the novel mixes fact and fiction, historical figures and imaginary ones. Most important, it contains a "full portrait of the man" Stalin, Rybakov told...