Word: autograph
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They certainly are. For one thing, women can't seem to watch enough beach volleyball. Players have become sex symbols who are regularly asked to autograph arms, legs and other parts of bikinied anatomies. "It's just outrageous how many girls go to these things," says Hanseth. "For some of the younger guys, it's like a sailor going into port." Male fans around the U.S. may soon have the chance to swoon over sweaty women. Thanks to the success of the A.V.P., some members of the fledgling Women's Beach Volleyball Association have asked attorney Armato to help them...
...baseline, hefting a bat like a mace of office, George Walker Bush ambles through his own pregame drill. He chats up players and reporters and makes small talk with fans, using a down-home twang and slang that belie ten years of New England schooling. They seek his autograph as eagerly as they do the players'. Bush scribbles on a baseball, a hat, a scrap of paper. On this warm summer evening, not one sportswriter or spectator asks about his relative with the extra middle name, George Herbert Walker Bush. In Arlington the White House feels about as far away...
...smoking gun, Rose's fingerprints on betting sheets. (Rose has claimed never to have seen the sheets before.) A handwriting analyst, formerly with the FBI, contends that they were written in Rose's hand. Meanwhile, as the two-day hearing adjourned last Friday, the Reds' manager was at an autograph show in Atlantic City, stoically selling his signature at $15 per scribble. "Being fair and legally correct aren't always the same thing," Judge Norbert A. Nadel noted, though hoping to be both. He promised a decision ^ on Sunday. Rose's hearing before Giamatti was scheduled for Monday. Nadel...
SPORT: Want your favorite player's autograph...
Baseball heroes are selling their good names for cash at autograph marts. The old signings over dugout railings are fading as promoters keep the kids moving in assembly lines of dreams...