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...encounter between bird, ball and ballplayer took place before 36,684 paying witnesses in Toronto's Exhibition Stadium, between halves of the fifth inning of a Yankee-Blue Jay game. Winfield had just finished his warmup tosses when he turned and whipped the ball to a ball boy. It hit the hapless gull, which had been idly perched on the turf. A ball boy came out, shrouded the corpse in a towel and tenderly removed it. For Winfield, who spent the rest of the game ducking balls and junk thrown by jeering fans, it marked the ignominious...
Dubbed "Melonhead" by his teammates because of one pre-game warmup that involved jumping up and down and hitting his head against the ceiling in the locker room, and, as Olson says, "because he's a little slow," Sheehy doesn't quite see himself as the squad's "big bruiser...
...Sylvester Stallone, 36, to direct the film. As Travolta and Stallone have planned it, Staying Alive will move Tony up six years and into Manhattan, where he lands a Broadway chorus job and-are you ready?-a chance at the lead. Travolta also graduates from white acetate suits to warmup outfits that show off his director's influence better. Six days a week for four months prior to filming, he followed the rigorous training schedule that Stallone used to hone his body for Rocky...
...injury was a big factor in MIT's 11-7 upset win. In the rematch, he was an offensive catalyst in a 25-14 Harvard rout. In contrast, according to Pike. Guerra is the one on the deck who keeps everyone loose before practice--as in a pre-game warmup when he helped the team get psyched for a game with Notre Dame by leading a rendition of the Irish fight song. (Harvard...
...publication of Storm-Kompas, a booklet in which 24 prominent Afrikaner clergy and writers attacked apartheid on religious and moral grounds. Smith was the volume's principal editor. Within the ironclad code of Afrikaner society, the book's viewpoint was shocking. The publication was only a warmup. Last month Smith was prominent among the 123 N.G. Church clergy who issued a fierce, indeed historic, protest against the regime's policies of racial separation and discrimination, terming them immoral, indefensible and unbiblical...