Word: rickey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Optimistic as ever, the Nattering Nabobs are there; so are the Rubin Amaros and the Burn Bags. Half the Fine Tooners have flown in from London. The dangerous Moose Factory shows up, without Rickey Henderson for the first time in years. Forsaking children, spouses and all significant others, twelve contentious clans have gathered this daylight-savings Sunday in the sporting confines of O'Reilly's Pub in New York City for the most sacred event of their baseball calendar: not opening day or the seventh game of the World Series but draft day for the American Dreams...
...Rickey Henderson's two-out double in the 10th inning drove home Claudell Washington, and the New York Yankees beat the Detroit Tigers, 2-1, yesterday in the American League opener for both teams...
ALLEN GINSBERG sat down in Tommy's Lunch last Friday afternoon and ordered a raspberry-lime rickey. The foremost living American poet, in town to plug his new volume of poems, White Shroud, carried the several books and notebooks he carts from one poetry reading to the next. For a self-styled "post-beat modernist," he looked remarkably conservative: blue blazer, candy-striped shirt, and rep tie. The only hint of nonconformity was a small dried flower under glass which he wore as a lapel...
...seemed as apt to persevere with a separated shoulder as to demur with a tender hamstring. "You wouldn't call him a gung- ho practice player," Coach Pat Dye recalls fondly. "I'm sure it was like work to him, but it never looked that way. Baseball thinks Rickey Henderson is fast. They're going to find out what speed is. Speed, size, grace, courage. He had everything you'd ever want in a football player...
...even Branch Rickey," Jackson says, "could have foreseen this kid was going to hit 15 home runs in his first 37 games in the big leagues (a 16th in the 38th was washed out last week). But I could see he had the tools." The way Jackson looks at it, the tools are the minimum. "A lot of players have superstar capability," he says, "but how many have superstar copability? Some can pull their weight, but few can pull the wagon." When he says Joyner might be special, Jackson means very special indeed...