Word: warmup
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With Liz Taylor watching from the St. Louis box--but wearing a Los Angeles warmup jacket--the Dodgers drubbed the visiting Cardinals, 4-1, in the opening game of the National League Championship Series. Los Angeles benefited from the fine pitching performance of the true-blue tandem of Fernando Valenzuela and Tom Niedenfuer...
...crazy just thinking about it." Yet this incessant candor makes The Mick a winner. Ingenuously, Mantle speaks of growing up in the Oklahoma dust, of Joe DiMaggio's icy remoteness, of Casey Stengel's Old Perfessor act that slipped on and off like a warmup jacket, of Billy Martin's violent insecurities, of the Hodgkin's disease that killed his father and afflicts his son. There is considerably more than towel snapping here. At the age of 54, it seems, Mickey Mantle has finally grown...
...could be Bernie Carbo tossing the warmup ball into the gold reflected shine of the blue and red box seats, pepper finished for the day, while the pitchers ramble out to the bullpen...
...warmup for its American offensive, Hyundai last year introduced its Pony subcompact into Canada, anticipating sales of no more than 5,000 cars in the first year. Thanks largely to its attractive base price of just $4,600 (in U.S. dollars), Pony sales topped 25,000, or 11% of the Canadian import market...
...score was misleading, since last night's contest proved to be an excellent warmup for a Crimson team that hadn't even used its top four player, in its first two matches against MIT and Army...