Word: leaguers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...points with the vast electronic audiences that watch these dramas. In this odd world where image is the message and sometimes the meaning, the outcome can be critical. Bush vs. Ortega is not a World Series, but it is a ( measure of Bush's response to a defiant bush leaguer. "Not a relaxed setting," Bush told TIME last week, recalling the encounter at the Costa Rican summit on democracy. "But I was not going back to refusing to shake somebody's hand." He was harking back to 1954, when Dwight Eisenhower's Secretary of State John Foster Dulles ignored...
...magical oily-like substance that I used to rub on my Carlton Fisk catcher's mitt and then on my Jim LeFevebre (whoever he was) infielder's glove every day in February. I really don't know what the Glovolium did to my gloves; I just thought every major leaguer...
...back at 22 to dislodge second baseman Don Blasingame, he was shunned by Blasingame's buddies. Familiar with cold shoulders, the black players took him in. Frank Robinson remembers, "Nobody had to show Pete how to hit, but they wouldn't even show him how to be a major leaguer...
...sport, a man's game. Baseball lodges in the American male heart because the fundamentals look easy enough for any Little Leaguer to master. Too soon, men realize that pro ball demands a genius for grace, concentration and magnificent egotism. They may agonize over the career path not chosen, the debt too steep, the woman so close but just beyond their reach. For many, though, a dream of athletic stardom is the one that got away. So they stick with baseball, living and dying with their team, analyzing stats with the rapt anguish of a rabbinical student cramming...
...next at-bat Doug Demeo broke the tie by lofting a Texas Leaguer into no-man's land between Harvard second baseman Casey Cobb and rightfielder Ted Decareau. Both Dextradeur and McMillin came around to score on the bloop hit, making it 4-2, Holy Cross...