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...background is not exactly revolutionary. The son of a baseball writer for the Associated Press and an ardent fan himself, Reichler grew up on Long Island. After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1973, he joined the Washington law firm of Arnold & Porter, where he played a mean shortstop on the firm's baseball team and put his encyclopedic knowledge of the sport to use in representing then Commissioner Bowie Kuhn. In 1979 Reichler's firm picked him to help recover Nicaraguan assets pilfered by the Somoza dictatorship. Two years later, when Arnold & Porter grew disenchanted with the Sandinistas, Reichler...
Poor Francis Phelan. Once he was something like "the Natural," an infielder for the Washington Senators, good glove man, top-of-the-lineup smile, tough as Ty Cobb sliding into second with his spikes flaring at the shortstop's groin. When baseball stardom eluded Francis, he tried being a husband to Annie -- best kisser in Albany -- and a father to Billy and Peg. That didn't work out either, so he hit the road and fell into the arms of Helen Archer, a singer who became a sod. There was some trouble with the law too: that scab...
...everyone seems to want starting pitching. And a healthy power-hitting catcher. A shortstop who has some speed would be nice. What about a .300-hitting first-baseman? Or a switch-hitting third-baseman...
...Louis Cardinals' Manager Whitey Herzog knows that Ozzie Smith will play almost flawless defense at shortstop...
...umpire's incorrect call at first base. Coming completely unhinged, Ace John Tudor punched a fan (the electric kind) the next day with his pitching hand, and St. Louis suffered the sort of loss that figured to be lasting. "We drew on our tradition to make it back," says Shortstop Ozzie Smith, "but that doesn't mean I'm in favor of every tradition. There should be instant-replay officials at the World Series...