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...editor Claudia Wallis also has a private sounding board--her "own little focus group of one"--son Nathaniel, 9. The good word on TFK's prototypes: he liked them! And as would any informed adviser, Nat had a suggestion: Do more stuff on sports. Voila! A story on Cal Ripken...
...Boat, standing on the sidelines of the Dallas Cowboys-New York Giants football game at the Meadowlands in New Jersey, doing a bit on the MTV Video Music Awards at Radio City Music Hall, painting the nails on one hand five different colors and signing a poster for Cal Ripken Jr. ("What wonderful blue eyes," she said of her sports co-star last week.) Seles even took the time to comfort Hungarian junior player Edit Pakay, 15, who was crying in the locker room after her defeat...
WORKAHOLICS Cal Ripken's 13 years of compulsive clock punching makes their life-style respectable...
...WHEN RIPKEN IS ASKED HOW HE'S CHANGED during the Streak, he responds, "Less and grayer hair." But then he gives a more thoughtful answer: "I'm much better with people, kids particularly. When I was young and fans would give me their babies to hold for a picture, the babies always ended up crying. But now that I have kids of my own, I find it easier not only to hold them, but to talk to them. And they ask--no offense--the best questions. Like 'How come you're not crying? How come...
Travel upriver from Havre de Grace all the way to Cooperstown, and right there on Main Street is a statue of a boy called The Sandlot Kid. He's barefoot, and he's wearing a straw hat. But he holds his bat over his shoulder a little like Cal Ripken. Just one more game...