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...sooner had Jimmy Leyritz hit Mark Wohlers's hanging slider somewhere north of the Mason-Dixon line than did I hear an unearthly scream from Georgia-boy, and see my roommate's lawn ornament chicken take flight, straight into a Canaday concrete wall. A couple of days later, Frank Torre had a new heart and the World Series trophy was back in the Big Apple...
...tough slider out there," Harvard coach Joe Walsh said. "He really slammed the door on us. I don't think we'll see a better two-pitch pitcher all year...
While most of these reports involve heavy doses of chemicals, evidence from laboratory studies suggests there are also effects at lower concentrations. Endocrinologist David Crews has discovered, for example, that small PCB doses can dramatically influence the ratio of male to female offspring in red-eared slider turtles. When University of Wisconsin toxicologist Richard Peterson investigated the impact of dioxin on male rats, he found that the dose needed to cause reproductive-system problems was relatively high. "But when we exposed pregnant rats to a dose 1/100th as large," he says, "we found the male offspring showed signs of reproductive...
DIED. ERIC SHOW, 37, former major league baseball pitcher; of unknown causes; in San Diego. The erstwhile star of the San Diego Padres, whose wicked slider mystified batters and whose extreme John Birch-style politics alienated many teammates, was found dead in a drug-rehab center. In recent years, Show apparently struggled with drugs and emotional problems, in dramatic contrast to his status a decade ago as the winningest pitcher the Padres had ever known; he led his team to their only National League pennant in 1984, and held the club strikeout record. The public may remember him best...
German women's luge coach Sepp Lenz is back at work, hobbling on one leg. He lost the other last December when U.S. slider Bethany Calcaterra-McMahon collided with him on a track in Winterberg, Germany, after he failed to hear the "all-clear" signal that indicated she had started her race. He, of course, will never be the same; perhaps neither will she. German and American lugers had another, even darker, intersection last October, when skinheads beat up medal hopeful Duncan Kennedy, who intervened in a barroom incident to protect teammate Robert Pipkins, a target because he is black...