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...ever want to own your own baseball team? Last spring two Harvard sophomores decided they did, so David Campbell and Bruce Shepherd attempted to form a public syndicate to buy the Red Sox. "Own a piece of the Sox," read an ad in the Boston Globe one weekend, and the next, Campbell and Shepherd had their pictures plastered across the sports pages of America, courtesy of the Associated Press, one of whose editors had seen the advertisement...
When the relatively unknown southpaw took the mound against powerful Navy in April 1962, Coach Norm Shepherd was not overly-optimistic about Del Rossi's ability to master the defending Eastern Intercollegiate champions...
This type of display prompted Shepherd to say, "Del Rossi was a brilliant sort of pitcher. You won't find any college pitcher who knew how to put into application the tools of pitching better than Del Rossi. He was not just a thrower out on the mound. He was an artist...
...beat rolled on. By the end of his sophomore year, Del Rossi had established himself as the dominant pitcher in the East with a 10-1 record and a 1.40 Earned Run Average. He helped turn what Shepherd had termed another "break-even season" into an outstanding 19-4 mark. The team won 12 straight along the way and Shepherd received Coach of The Year honors...
...pounds of fat looks like, girls! How would you like to carry that around with you all day? Well, that's just what you're doing if you're six pounds overweight." The best way to shed the suet? Out trots LaLanne's white German shepherd carrying the answer on a sign: IT'S GLAMOUR STRETCHER TIME! That cues a pitch for LaLanne's elastic exercise rope ($4), one of the 30 health and beauty products that he peddles. As testimony to the benefits of such items as Jack LaLanne's Toasted Soya...