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...drew more than 170,000 riders at $2.75 each. There are now 18 of the German-designed tracks in operation, some with nighttime sledding. The one-man plastic chariots on the twisting, toboggan-like runs go up to 25 m.p.h., but can be braked to a halt. Who needs snow...
Last week they learned the answer-blinking in the bright sunlight, his hair snow white and his skin almost alabaster, "El Señor Protasio," now 77 emerged nervously from the home where he had hidden in fear since 1939 Blue eyes shining, he told the improbable story of his self-imposed 38-year imprisonment, which outlasted even Franco's long dictatorship...
...Through snow and earth they...
...Carew has won the American League batting championship five times, and four of those titles came in a row. Only Ty Cobb (nine) and Rogers Hornsby (six) won more consecutive batting crowns. Now 31 and in his eleventh season with the Twins (in a state where they name snow cones after football players instead of candy bars after batsmen), Carew has spent a career as the best-kept secret in American sport-a long neglected but authentic hero. Now he can turn obscurity into immortality. According to no less an authority than Williams himself, Carew's chances of reaching...
...summer, Carew putters in the yard. Come autumn, he cleans the rain gutters and in winter, the man from Panama shovels snow. Carew is rooted now, and the mercurial moods that marked his early career seldom surface. "When I ask Charryse what Daddy does, she says, 'Daddy strikes out. I explain to her that Daddy doesn't strike out very often. But how can you get mad at fans when your own kids knock you? I leave my game at the park. When I go home to play with my kids, they don't care...