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...minutes in the morning and again at lunchtime. Reagan approves a few appointments, mostly routine and obscure, and makes a few phone calls (last week to Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis on the air-controllers' strike, and to Philadelphia First Baseman Pete Rose on his breaking Stan Musial's National League record for total hits). That is about the extent of Reagan's workday...
Many of the working controllers do not want their former colleagues back on the job, fearing that the friction would be worse than before. Declares Stan Recek, a nonunion controller in Miami: "I'll work seven days a week, 16 hours a day, to keep them from coming back." Nor do the supervisors want to go back to pushing paper. "I'm having a ball," says Mike Hughes, a supervisor in Miami. "I'm happier with my job now than I have been in the past three years...
...opening day. Most worked out regularly in the early days of the strike, but slacked off as hopes for a settlement faded. Few were as conscientious as Pete Rose of the Phillies, who took as many as 400 swings every day against an automatic pitching machine. Rose, 40, tied Stan Musial's National League record of 3,630 hits two days before the strike began, and doubts that lost playing time will wreck his chance of topping Ty Cobb's record of 4,191 hits. "If I get close enough to Cobb's record," says Rose, "Johnson...
...applaud our countryman's excellence, we should keep in mind that he really isn't a very talented ambassador yet. Maybe he could take some lessons in protocol from elder statesmen Stan Smith and Arthur Ashe, men who never had McEnroe's talents but who nonetheless dominated the game for short periods with grace and good humor...
...example, is looking to surpass Ty Cobb's record of 4,191 hits and become baseball's alltime hit leader; Rose is at 3,630 now, but at 40, will need another few seasons to catch Cobb. Indeed, he needs only one more hit to pass Stan Musial; he got a hit last week-in a softball game in Cincinnati. Tom Seaver of the Reds needs 48 wins to join that select group of pitchers with 300 career victories; at 36, he cannot easily afford to lose a season's pitching starts...