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With fears of a repeat of the scene at Shea Stadium last week (when victory-crazed Mets fans caused $250,000damage to the field), the Fenway crowd remainedgenerally well-behaved. Only about a dozenspectators raced onto the field, and they were allquickly apprehended by the security force...
...fans have watched enough late-season collapses to imagine their team in a swoon to rival 1978's as soon as Clemens loses again. But those who don't believe now will in October when the BoSox to Shea Stadium...
...torture, denial of due process to thousands of political detainees, and refusal to allow labor unions to strike or engage in collective bargaining. "The recent actions of the government to expel two Roman Catholic priests and the closing down of the newspaper La Prensa are not new," concedes Nina Shea, a lawyer who wrote the report. "They are part of a pattern of repression against dissidents that has been going on for many years." And given the jangled nerves of the Nicaraguan leaders, the repression seems likely to grow even worse...
That's the latest slogan at Shea Stadium these days. Actually, it's "Baseball as it oughta be," italicized and everything, plastered right across the upper deck facade. Mets owner Frank Cashen probably felt defeated since the Atlanta Braves had already proclaimed themselves "America's Team...
What does that mean, anyway--baseball as it oughta be? When I journeyed to Shea for the Mets home opener against the Cards and Howard Johnson let an easy grounder go through his legs, allowing the winning run to score in the 13th inning--was that baseball as it oughta...