Word: weaverization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...steamer trunk, Shogun. What are the stats on a samurai? Attorney Jim Murphy, who normally attends about 75% of Houston's home games, has found a peculiar substitute for baseball: opera, an art form that the sport somewhat resembles-at least if Billy Martin or Earl Weaver is involved. "My wife," says Murphy, "thinks this strike will spawn a cultural revolution...
Buddy (Timothy Shelton), one of the two Talley sons, has been granted a 72-hour leave from the Italian campaign to be with his apparently dying grandfather, the senile patriarch of the clan (Fritz Weaver). Buddy's wife Olive (Patricia Wettig) and his mother (Helen Stenborg) are busy preparing Christmas dinner-to make up for the one Buddy missed in December; and his Aunt Charlotte (Elizabeth Sturges) is sitting by herself, uttering bitter and angry comments about everyone and everything, as usual...
...WINTER'S NIGHT A TRAVELER by Italo Calvino Translated by William Weaver Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 260 pages...
...m.p.h. A good manager can impart confidence in myriad ways: leaving a pitcher in the game to work his way out of trouble, letting a batter swing away on a 3-0 count, praising on the bench, and doing the dressing down in private. Says Baltimore's Earl Weaver, the winningest manager in baseball today: "If a person can get to the subconscious, then he is going to get a lot more adrenalin flowing or a lot more out of the human body than it might be capable of. I don't know if it is through actions...
...home runs and hitting .304. First Baseman Eddie Murray, who hit .300, has emerged as one of baseball's best switch-hitters, with 111 home runs in merely four seasons. The only question mark is Third Baseman Doug DeCinces, who is recovering from a back injury. Says Weaver: "If Doug can hit his usual 15 to 20 home runs, then you can add another three games. Let's see. . . that gives us 106, doesn...