Word: yogis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...player-witnesses last week were former Pirate Pitchers Eddie Solomon and Manny Sarmiento, as well as Montreal Expo Outfielder Tim Raines and onetime Outfielder Rowland Office. The most disheartening charges to come out of the trial, however, concerned not coke but amphetamines. Yankee Third Baseman Dale Berra, Yogi's 28-year-old son, said that while playing with the Pirates he got green speed pills from former Team Captains Bill Madlock and Willie ("Pops") Stargell. Berra claimed he , could get a "greenie" from Stargell "on any given day that I asked...
Although Hispanics constitute by far the largest audience for ethnic programming, a growing number of stations are offering polyglot schedules that amount to a microcosm of the U.S. melting pot. KSCI-TV in Los Angeles begins its day at 4 a.m. with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, followed by half an hour of Korean news, an Islamic educational program, a Farsi version of the Today show and, around lunchtime, a costume drama called Chinese World. WCIU-TV, Channel 26 in Chicago, carries some 60 hours a week of foreign-language programming, ranging from Club del Nino, a Hispanic children's series...
...Yogi will be the manager this year," he promised in the spring. "A bad start will not affect Yogi's status." Looking as he has always looked, like a taxicab with the doors open, Berra took his leave after 16 games with an old Yankee grace. He has never been able to sustain a grudge against baseball. In 1975, when Berra was discharged as manager of the New York Mets, he spoke of needing to distance himself from the game. "I'm going to take my family on a trip," he said, "and get as far away from baseball...
...CHICAGO--Yogi Berra was fired as manager of the New York Yankees yesterday and was replaced by Billy Martin, who will take over the team for the fourth time in his managing career...
Yankees General Manager Clyde King read Steinbrenner's statement King added, on his own, that Steinbrenner "would rather fire 25 players than to fire Yogi, but we all know that would be impossible...