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...coaches all the way down the line told us not to--but we'd sneak out and practice throwing curve balls. When he was twelve, I knew. By twelve he had command. Almost nobody could catch his fastball either: he broke one guy's hand, another guy's wrist." Without irony, Gooden's playmates took to calling him Doctor. Dan Gooden believes his son's nickname came from an infielder's chatter: "C'mon, Dr. Dwight, operate on him!" Youmans says, "It was just always Dr. D, or Doc." It evolved naturally into Dr. K, the initial taken from...
...news broke in a particularly dramatic fashion: in early January, Donald Manes, the mayor's close political ally and president of the borough of Queens (one of New York City's five administrative units), was pulled from his car, bleeding and near death from knife cuts to the wrist and ankle; Manes eventually admitted that the wounds were self-inflicted. Soon after, Manes' associate, Geoffrey Lindenauer, a former official in the city's parking- violations bureau, was accused of extorting $410,000 in cash, trips and theater seats from agencies that had been granted plump city contracts to collect unpaid...
Last week, Ueberroth gave 11 players a little slap on the wrist for their drug use. But kids will still want to hit like Dave Parker and pitch like Joaquin Andujar...
...first shift of his first varsity game, the first time he touched the puck no less, the freshman stole a Princeton pass at the hosts' blue line and promplty fed Chiarelli going the other way. Chiarelli proceeded to beat Tiger goalie David Shea with a wrist shot just 5:41 into the contest...
...open the second period, the Tigers replaced Shea with Dave Marotta in the net and immediately capitalized on their momentum, knotting the game at two when Dan Titus intercepted Crimson defenseman Butch Cutone's pass at the Harvard blue line and flicked a high wrist shot past Blair...