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...Sax Player Paquito D'Rivera soars high on an expatriate dream
...leave the country to find home, and he had to be careful to give no sign at all of his travel plans. Passing through Madrid on a band tour in the spring of 1980, Sax Player Paquito D'Rivera, Cuban born and Cuban bred, was at the airport, bag packed as usual for another gig. Inside his luggage, however, was a carefully weighted assortment of stones, an army boot and a piece of a baseball bat. By the time the bag was stashed on the plane, D'Rivera was on his way into Madrid, planning his route...
...Rivera has been blowing his horn since the age of five, when his father gave him a custom-made soprano sax. He played with a Cuban symphony orchestra at the age of eleven and made his first trip to New York when he was twelve. By then, he had already plunged into the swift currents of bop by listening hard to Charlie Parker records his father had bought...
...home from third. In the fourth inning, with Russell on first and Marshall on third, a delayed double steal failed as Marshall was run down between third and home. Before the successful L.A. uprising in the fifth inning. Fernando Valenzuela reached third on Maddox's error. But Steve Sax grounded out to second and Brock hit a slow bounder to Mike Schmidt at third, who gunned down Valenzuela at the plate...
...eighth inning, the Dodgers left the bases loaded. Sax singled with one out and went to third when Baker looped a single out to right field, after a Bill Russell popout. But after Pedro Guerrero walked to load the bases, Phillie reliever Al Holland came in to take over for Carlton and got Marshall to fly to right field to end the inning...