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Coach Horn and Keane also attributes the team's success this year to a large nucleus of veteran seniors who helped skipper the team to last year's number-three ranking...
...Cleveland Indians have offered Billy Martin a three-year contract worth at least $1 million that would allow the feisty skipper to keep his status as baseball's highest-paid manager. The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported in today's editions...
...returning in 1898 from a solo three-year voyage around the world in his 36-ft. 9-in. Spray. Last week 16 sailors from eight countries (five Americans, three Britishers, three Frenchmen, a New Zealander, an Australian, a Japanese, a South African and a Czech) followed the great Yankee skipper's advice. As a gunshot cracked across Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay to signal the start, each sailor turned his stern on the plush attractions of old Newport, his bow toward the starting line off Goat Island and the wild Atlantic, and his thoughts to the challenge upon...
...broker, has chartered the 56-ft. ketch Gipsy Moth V from the family of the late Sir Francis Chichester. Hampton's only companion will be a tiny stuffed koala bear presented to him for good luck by his daughter. Guy Bernardin, 37, a French business executive who will skipper the 38-ft. Ratso II, accepts the loneliness of the long-distance sailor. "For a race such as this," he says, "you must clear out all the responsibilities in your life. Anything can happen. You must clear your mind from all problems, even from your family." Tony Lush, 33, whose...
...fans were really sky-high over this thing, and then, wham!" Tiger skipper Sparky Anderson said before Wednesday's Red Sox-Tiger massacre. He added that he feels particularly bad about the Tiger down-turn because their-success had been such a salve for the city...