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Along with Rose, Tom Seaver, Phil Niekro and maybe Reggie Jackson are approaching this New Year's Day with that same thought. "Usually," says Niekro, 48, meaning every year of the past 24, "my blood starts flowing as soon as the holidays are over. I don't know how I'm going to feel a month from now, or when the summer starts to get hot, or when the World Series comes around. I wonder what it's going to be like, never again seeing that look in the batter's eye with the bases loaded...
...Seaver took a stab at holding on last summer by playing in the minors, and lately Jackson has been waffling on his announced plans to leave. They are 43 and 41 years old, respectively. "The compulsion to play this game is something," Niekro says. "I don't know how many letters I've got over the years, how many strangers have dropped by my hotel, how many fathers have offered to pay me money to teach their boys the knuckleball. 'Can you at least show me how to grip it?' they say. But I'd have to take them...
...grant is the second gift of a six-year program funded by the Seaver Institute. "We were interested in making a contribution to the research in the field of human motivation," said Dr. Richard Call, Seaver Institute president...
Current post-doctoral fellows in the Seaver Institute research program are working on several projects under the supervision of David McClelland, professor emeritus of psychology, a leading researcher in the field of human motivation...
Other studies currently being researched by Seaver Institute fellows include the examination of the relationship between motivation and physical health, subliminal perception, and the difference between conscious and unconscious motivations...