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...week the manager of the team dropped another bombshell: forget about being overage -- most of the team wasn't even from Zamboanga City. League officials in Manila had packed the squad with ringers even though national All-Star squads are barred from the World Series. Little League officials in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, declared eight Philippine players ineligible Thursday and ordered a forfeit of their team's 15-4 victory last month over Long Beach, California. The newly crowned California team got together Thursday night for a quiet celebration at a park. "I think this is a real big / thing," said pitcher...
Legendary athletes are honored when their number is retired with them. Just ask Dave ("Spuds") Bresnahan, the never-to-be-forgotten second-string catcher for the Williamsport (Pa.) Bills, a class AA team. His immortal feat on the diamond last year prompted 2,700 of his fans to gather at Bowman Field last week to pay him a belated tribute and to paint his number, 59, on the outfield fence...
There were other good athletes around the neighborhood. Without Gooden, whose birthday came just a little too late for the 1975 Williamsport World Series, the Belmont Little Leaguers made it all the way to the finals before losing to Taiwan. But Gooden could be so critical of his teammates' mistakes that a visitor to the practice field might have taken him for the only competent player. One day nobody remembered to bring a ball. The team was awkwardly waiting when Gooden suddenly said, "I'm sorry for the way I act sometimes." After that he seemed not to notice...
...selfincrimination. He has also attacked the court's recent rulings on church-state conflicts, telling the Washington Post that the court has confused "freedom of religion and hostility toward religion." This fall the Justice Department will go before the court to argue that a student religious group in a Williamsport, Pa., high school should be permitted to meet during a school-sanctioned activities period...
...decisive, will need to be. The company has been rocked by bad ventures. Last year Merrill Lynch spent $88 million to satisfy customers to whom it had sold annuities issued by Baldwin-United, which later went bankrupt. A career-long employee whose father was a Merrill Lynch broker in Williamsport, Pa., Schreyer recently led an extensive study of the company's problems. Dubbed SWAT, for Schreyer Working Team, the group found the firm had tried to serve too many different types of customers...