Word: rudy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whom did Joe Rudi make his famous catch in the 1972 World Series...
...ritual horseplay of the Angel's locker-room victory party. "Anybody want some more good California champagne?" asked Nixon, wiping his pate. "You can squeeze it right out of this towel." Before leaving, Nixon dutifully made his round of the players, offering congratulations and advising Outfielder Joe Rudi about his real estate investments in Oregon...
...incomprehensible years 1935 to 1945. Dr. and Mrs. Weiss die at Auschwitz, as does their oldest son, Karl. A daughter, Anna, becomes autistic after her rape by drunken Nazis; in a procession of the retarded and aged, she is gassed at the euthanasia center at Hadamar. A younger son, Rudi, joins Jewish partisans fighting in the Ukraine; he survives to depart for Palestine after the war-the rebirth of European Jewry. Parallel runs the story of Erik Dorf, a prissily murderous family man and SS officer around whom nearly all the horrific deeds of genocide have been densely crowded...
...exertions, the series at its core was curiously passionless. An accumulation of small anomalies diminished it. Dr. and Mrs. Weiss behaved with such genteel forbearance down to the last horror of the Zyklon B showers that their journey seemed like Mr. and Mrs. Miniver Go to Auschwitz. The lovers, Rudi and Helena, romped in the Ukraine wearing clothes that looked like peasant chic from Bloomingdale...
...other teams soared, his tightfisted policies led to a wholesale desertion by the A's biggest stars. He was forever feuding with Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, whom he once called "the village idiot"; the most notable battle involved Finley's attempt to sell Vida Blue, Joe Rudi and Rollie Fingers for $3.5 million in cash before they departed in the free-agent market. Kuhn voided the deal, claiming it was not "in the best interests of baseball." Despite all that, Finley was a topflight baseball man, whose shrewd trades and sharp eye for nascent superstars gave Oakland five...