Word: semipros
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...Gang. "I once saw a Reds-Cards game," he says, "where Enos Slaughter drew a walk and ran hard to first base. I decided right then that that was what I was going to do as long as I played ball." A more immediate propellant was Pete Sr., a semipro football player with the old Cincinnati Bengals, who taught his son to switch...
McCarthy's appeal to youth is nonpareil. He is cool without being cold, a scholar with four books to his credit who once played semipro baseball, a father of four who spent a year as a Benedictine novice. He can talk to students-as well as to businessmen and farmers-with equal ease about politics and poetry. At the risk of sounding fey, he usually prefers the far-out. A New York Times reporter last week described this conversation between McCarthy and Poet Robert Lowell, an ardent supporter who has been traveling with the entourage...
Stain of Shamateurism. The Killy case evoked memories of Jim Thorpe, who won the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Olympics, then was forced to give back his medals because he had once accepted a few dollars to play semipro baseball. And it illustrated how deeply the hypocrisy of "shamateurism" stains the fabric of sport. If Killy did accept money for a story, is he any less an amateur than the tennis star who collects under-the-table payments from promoters? Or the basketball ace who gets discounts from the" stores and restaurants in his college town? And how about...
...professional beats weren't hard to single cut. The Devils Disciples, blood-brother to the Hells Angels and the fighting arm of Boston hippy-power, had staked out their turf next to their mounts and squatted on the ground shining their Nazi helmets. Up near the Weeks bridge, a semipro combo formed the nucleus for what became an ever increasing circle of sound. There was a full set of skins, bongos, congos, a bass, sax, and crazy flutist...
Time to Turn Loose. When he challenged former Governor Val Peterson in the G.O.P. primary last May, Tiemann-a former semipro baseball player-was determined to change all that. After a punishing campaign involving 600 appearances and 65,000 miles of travel, he beat Peterson by 15,000 votes. "We paced him just right," says Tiemann's campaign manager, David Pierson. "When election day came, we figured he was just about 14 hours away from total collapse." In the general election, Tiemann walloped liberal Democratic Lieutenant Governor Philip Sorensen, younger brother of ex-Presidential Speechwriter Ted Sorensen, by more...