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...McRae is not exactly a concert pianist, and Brian McRae is not exactly a major leaguer, but they come tolerably close. Last week, for the first time in the long memory of baseball, a father and son played together in a big-league game. The sport has had a rich run of sequels: Boones, Berras and Bells. But not even in a Grapefruit season had two generations ever come to the same stage at the same instant, until Brian singled and stole second in the first inning and Hal followed with a walk. Pausing only for the usual sidelong glance...
...Rodeo Announcer." Around the circuit, which could extend from Puyallup, Wash., to Baton Rouge, La., and into Madison Square Garden itself, no exhibition of bronco riding or calf roping seemed quite complete without Taillon's booming, animated commentary. He became something more than legendary to those who followed the sport. Said one admirer: "I don't know what God looks like, but I know what He sounds like." In 1977 his daughter, Cyra McFadden, created a literary stir with her first novel. The Serial, a wry look at some laid-back suburban lives in California's Marin County. There...
...Sport The best righthander of one time and the bravest pitcher of another are found on the same high mound in Kansas City...
...refreshing to read the article on terrorism by Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's Ambassador to the U.N. [SPECIAL SECTION, April 14]. Thank God people are beginning to realize that terrorists are not soldiers fighting for a cause, but cowards who kill for the sport of it. Yvonne S. Perry Baltimore...