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...tough ump from the old school, and he presided over plenty of drama in his two decades at the corners and behind the plate. He broke up one of baseball's scariest fights when an enraged Juan Marichal of the San Francisco Giants clubbed Los Angeles Dodgers catcher John Roseboro on the head with a bat. He also had the nerve to eject a manager in the World Series: Baltimore's voluble Earl Weaver, in the fourth game of the 1969 series with the New York Mets, the eventual champs. In poetic lockstep, his sons followed in Dad's officiating...
...certainly an issue of concern, and people have been working very hard to get it resolved," Brian Roseboro, assistant secretary of the Treasury for financial markets, a key figure among officials monitoring the situation. "It's important that this problem be fixed - we want the basic infrastructure up and working...
Indeed, Leary's recent guest list is both eclectic and electric: Yoko Ono, goddaughter Winona Ryder, former Mama Michelle Phillips, dolphin researcher John Lilly, onetime Dodger catcher Johnny Roseboro, the widow of Aldous Huxley, the members of the industrial-metal group Ministry, and Ram Dass, who used to be Leary's old Harvard bud Richard Alpert. Oh, yes, Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins just dropped by and dropped off a tape of Dead Man Walking. "It's a little hectic up here," says Leary's personal assistant, a young woman with magenta-streaked hair, Technicolorfully tattooed legs...
...electronic voice calls attention to objects around the house: a bedspread crocheted by Grandmother Baines, "a cherished wedding gift to us," a Bristol hanging lamp, horsehair chair and ottoman, Great-Aunt Hattie Baines Roseboro's Bible, and the pie-safe "screened to keep out the flies...
...more alert now than we were a year ago," says Carew. "Martin has given a whole new spirit to the team." Roseboro and Killebrew, the club's elder statesmen, agree. "Martin gets excited and raises a lot of hell," says Roseboro, "but he keeps you on your toes." Says Killebrew: "This is a happy team now. I really think we can win it all this year." If they do, they can attribute their success to the fact that, compared with last year's band of bickering individualists, the 1969 Twins have become downright fraternal...