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Sadat is the first Egyptian and Begin the first Israeli to win the Peace Prize, joining a roster of 19 other nationalities. More Americans have won the Nobel than any other group: 16 in all, including Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Ralph Bunche, General George C. Marshall (the only career military man ever to win) and Martin Luther King...
...given a tryout (which he flunked) to become Steve Pisarkiewicz's backup. The 24-year-old Blount was obviously impressed by meeting Wilkinson. When Blount left, Bud recalled that he had once coached Oklahoma against a Texas team that had Peppy Blount, Jeb's father, on its roster. That was 31 years ago, and Wilkinson laughed at the coincidence, and the passage of time, and the bonds of the game that had drawn him back to football...
...vindicated the old-fashioned Dodger way of baseball: scout the hinterlands for raw talent, groom it carefully down on the farm, then bring young players up to the parent club to fill the gaps that age and injury inevitably open during the long, hot summer. Of a 25-man roster, 13 are onetime Dodger farm boys. In contrast, the Yankees built their team by spending big bucks on the free-agent market and have only six home-grown players on their squad. The Yankees can field the most devastating starting nine in baseball but have few reserves to call upon...
...doubt that the Dodgers' fierce concentration during the opening games was heightened by their determination to make Gilliam's last team a championship club. Captain Davey Lopes insisted the night before the funeral that the Yankees would have to beat 50 Dodgers, "all 25 men on the roster and then the part of Jim Gilliam that...
...shaky fall and early challenge match losses have left senior Scott Walker off the singles roster, although he'll team with Shaw to play doubles. The big question mark in the line-up surrounds B doubles, where Pompan is now set to team with Sandy Chaikovsky...