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Mysterious things. Like the late Thurman Munson wishing to be traded from his world-champion ballclub to the Cleveland Indians, where he could live near his family. So terrible and inhumane is Cleveland to anyone but Munson, that Don Zimmer and Haywood Sullivan traded their most hated players--the Buffalo Heads (Rick Wise, Jim Willoughby, Ferguson Jenkins, and Bernie Carbo)--to the Indians, sparking one of the most imaginative and bizarre player protests of recent lore...
BASEBALL INTRINSICALLY rejects the cult of personality, the People magazine approach to life. Sure, ballplayers have personalities; but they develop personalities on the field as well--DiMaggio's kingly elegance, Ryne Duren's fastball-to-the-loge weirdness. Thurman Munson's combative surliness--and, in the end, these personalities are more engaging. For the most part, you get these personalities in The Yankees, personalities on grass and clay, not carpeting. Your team, maybe, Remember Ross Moschito...
...Politics of Englightenment: Buddhism in Society--Robert Thurman, professor of Buddhist Studies, Amherst College, Andover Hall...
Cowboy running back Dennis Thurman recovered the onside kick on the Pittsburgh 48 and Dallas had 2:23 to score two touchdowns. Stauback almost made it. On third and one at the four, Staubach threw his third TD pass of the game to tight end Butch Johnson...
...chance of the Arabs' wanting to put all their cash into one breadbasket seems remote, and the scare stories are based on phony evidence or plain prejudice. When asked to back up his claim that "thousands and thousands of acres are being bought up," California State Assemblyman John Thurman cited one "foreign" farm in California; in fact, it is owned by an American of Iranian descent. Under questioning, Tom Harkin admitted that foreign land buying "has not yet affected Iowa...