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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...against the greatest team of post-war baseball, the Indians with 111 victories in a 154-game season, and a pitching staff of Lemon, Wynn, Garcia and an aging but able Bob Feller. I bet every cent I won (about two bucks) at long odds on the hometown boys, and the Giants win in 4 as Dusty Rhodes emerges from the bench into ephermeral glory. I end up with about 12 bucks and considered myself the richest kid in town...

Author: By Stephen J. Gould, | Title: On Rooting | 10/26/1987 | See Source »

...higher, detached understanding. Bullbleep. Ya gotta root. (I cannot, for example, believe that my erstwhile colleague, National League prexy Bart Giamatti late of Harvard's great rival to the South, doesn't still pull for his beloved Red Sox, even though his present post demands an appearance of august impartiality within his new Leaue, and crusading zeal against his old favorites...

Author: By Stephen J. Gould, | Title: On Rooting | 10/26/1987 | See Source »

...amazing" that Cornell recently created a position within its health service to deal with sexuality, and AIDS in particular, says Caron, who has held the post for a month. In the past five-and-a-half years, Caron has set up peer sex education groups at some 30 schools nationwide...

Author: By Sophia A. Van wingerden, | Title: Colleges Aim to Combat AIDS Apathy | 10/24/1987 | See Source »

Washington Post reporter David Broder originally suggested sponsoring a discussion of presidential press conferences, Kalb said. "The idea in its simplest form is that the press conference is in a state of acute disrepair," Kalb said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kalb Starts Presidential Series | 10/24/1987 | See Source »

Traders said stock prices started off on a depressed note after overseas markets continued to post huge losses, capping the worst week in global equity trading since the Great Depression...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Stock Market Climbs in Hectic Trading | 10/24/1987 | See Source »

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