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Last year's game was particularly unpleasant one. Most of the talk was about the strike, but worst of all was seeing Carlton Risk, everyone's favorite Red Sox player, in a Chicago uniform hitting a three-run homer in the eighth inning to give the White Sox the game...
Ronald Reagan was wearing a dark blue suit with a white handkerchief deftly planted in his breast pocket-the standard uniform of many a presidential tour. But he was also wearing a pair of rubber rain boots, hastily borrowed from a local farmer named Greg Miller. The occasion: a quick stop in Fort Wayne, Ind., where for a few minutes last week the President joined a crew of flood-control workers in passing sandbags to be stacked along the muddy banks of the swollen St. Mary's River...
...last season Mark mopped up in the minor leagues talking to himself. The Tigers finally gave up on him, and now the Red Sox are having a look. Close up, it is hard to feel too sad because he appears so happy. "As soon as I get the uniform on, I'm happy," Fidrych says. "Getting dirty, you know. Being a kid again. I love it. Oh, I'm still a free spirit. You won't see me lose that." And, at least on this day, he experiences no pain...
...German history. It provides the audience with its favorite (American) kind of entertainment, while soothing consciences about any collective guilt. These men are good; They are soldiers, not Nazis, Mostly they are dark-haired, Southern-spoken. Only one "overgrows Hitlerjugend," as the captain calls him, shows a tendency toward uniform-worship and blond Aryan arrogance. The tall, chisel-cheeked heroes of Leni Riefenstahl could never fit in the low ceilings and grime of a submarine...
When we land, one of the wounded tries to disentangle himself from the limbs of the dead. A soldier in regular uniform starts throwing gear onto the ground, then the dead. The corpses are arranged around the gunship, one here, one over there, one face up, another face down. A medic leads the stowaway off. The crew still stands by the craft, but no one wishes to move or speak. It is a moment of shock and disgrace. I squeeze the pilot's shoulder. "You see," he says, "here there really is a war going...