Word: ricks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Returning Players to Watch: Winslow Cervantes (LB), Rick Cavalli (LB), Joe Policastro (DB), Chris Guth (LB), Mike Francesconi...
...must then know of some of the other top pitchers in each league: people such as California's Romanick. Montreal's Heskith, and Toronto's Key. And don't forget Kansas City's big crowd draw, Saberhagen. It's little wonder that people like Nolan Ryan and Rick Sutcliffe are making millions...
...Rick Dempsey, the veteran catcher for the Baltimore Orioles, first met Krickett Johnson at a Baltimore-New York game during the summer...
While most fans are content to watch Captain Louis Renault and Rick Blaine (Claude Rains and Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca) walk off into the fog together, Thomson asks more. Where did the cynical French policeman and the hard-boiled American come from? What will they do after the final fade-out? And what of Laura Hunt and Waldo Lydecker (Gene Tierney and Clifton Webb in Laura), Guy Haines and Bruno Anthony (Farley Granger and Robert Walker in Strangers on a Train) and Norma Desmond and Joe Gillis (Gloria Swanson and William Holden in Sunset Boulevard...
...Thomson imagines fuller lives for 85 characters. Rick Blaine, for example, was born in Omaha in 1900. Before Casablanca and the Cafe Americain, he played football at the University of Nebraska, organized farm workers in California, fought against fascism in Spain and played the black market in Paris. There he met Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman), a language teacher and daughter of a bankrupt Swedish count, who will survive the war to subtitle Ingmar Bergman films, model for Edward Hopper and become Dag Hammarskjold's assistant. She died with the Secretary-General of the United Nations in 1961 when their plane...