Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Toronto Tycoon. A former shop foreman who became one of Canada's top real estate developers, Robert Campeau in 1986 went on a U.S. shopping spree. Campeau, 66, paid $3.6 billion for Allied Stores and won Federated Department Stores for $6.6 billion in a celebrated 1988 battle with R.H. Macy & Co. But the takeovers left Campeau, who had little experience in U.S. retailing, sorely overextended. His attempt to raise cash by selling off several chain stores brought disappointing proceeds, and then the women's apparel trade went into a slump...
...Toronto-born, Novak graduated from local York University intending to be a writer ("No kid goes to bed at night dreaming he'll be a ghostwriter"). After earning an M.A. in contemporary Jewish studies at Brandeis, he spent ten years editing scholarly magazines and writing a string of financially unsuccessful books (among them: High Culture, about marijuana use, The Great American Man Shortage and a compendium of Jewish humor). Just as he resigned himself to "finding a real job," an editor friend at Bantam suggested Lee Iacocca. "Great! My kind of guy," said Novak, who had never heard of Iacocca...
...Drury F FR Trumbull, CT 19 Tim Burke F SO Wellesley, MA 21 Kevin Sneddon D SO Burlington, ONT 22 Brian McCormack D SO Lake Forest, IL 23 Scott McCormack D SR Lake Forest, IL 25 Tod Hartje F SR Anoka, MN 26 John Murphy F SR Toronto, ONT 27 Craig Miskovich F SO Coleraine, MN 29 Mike Vukonich F JR Duluth, MN 30 Chuckie Hughes G SO Quincy, MA 31 Allain Roy G SO Campbellton...
...spate of early-season injuries, the A's went into this week's games healthy and in the hitting groove. Their musclemen, designated hitter Dave Parker and the Bash Brothers -- first baseman Mark McGwire and rightfielder Jose Canseco -- each homered at least once in the playoff series against Toronto. Canseco's was a tape-measure job estimated by an IBM computer at 480 ft. Nobody seemed more impressed than Jose himself telling callers on his personal hot line, (900) 234-JOSE, "I mean, this was one mammoth home run, - and you really enjoy hitting those types. I mean...
...player most likely to give the Giants fits is left fielder Rickey Henderson, 30. All he did against Toronto was reach base on 14 of 23 times at bat, score eight runs, drive in five more, hit two homers and steal eight bases in as many tries. On the base paths he drove Blue Jay pitchers nuts. Like Canseco, Henderson is hardly humble. "I'd say I'm the decade's best lead-off man," he declares. "If people feel I'm one of the best who ever played the game, that's nice to hear." Opposing players call Henderson...