Word: sandlots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Game 4, a model of a sandlot game, everyone did something wonderful and horrible. Jackson hit his tenth World Series home run and reached base five times, but misplaced a fly ball in the sun. A bit of a mystery was the benching of New York Centerfielder Jerry Mumphrey, spotlighted when Substitute Bobby Brown botched a play. (The lineup card was dusted for Steinbrenner's prints.) When this outlandish, delightful, 31-hr., ten-pitcher, 8-7 game was through, there was only one untainted hero: Dodger Jay Johnstone. He slammed a pinch homer in the sixth, took...
Besides Carew, whom he found "playing sandlot ball in New York--he didn't play in high school." Stein's signees include Danny Monzon and Sal Butera, both of whom eventually made it to the big leagues with the Twins. But even if he never finds another player. Stein says, he'll be satisfied with uncovering Carew. "That's a career right there," he says...
...Olin Frick told his friend John Casque to quit playing sandlot baseball and chasing girls, and instead help him search for sunken treasure. Gasque, then a physicist by profession, agreed-a decision he will never regret. Plumbing the waters around the West Indies, Gasque, 30, and Frick, 46, have discovered two 19th century ships, about $250,000 in gold, Ming dynasty china and pearls, and a seemingly worthless old wreck that may turn out to be the most precious find of all. The ship, discovered two years ago in 30 ft. of clear water 60 miles north of Haiti...