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The Phillies hadn't scored a run against the Dodgers all year for pitcher Steve Carlton. So when Mike Schmidt golfed a low Jerry Reuss slider over the center field fence in the first inning to give the Phillies a 1-0 lead, Carlton was prepared to defend it.
This year's Miss America comes with such standard features as beauty, talent and ambition. But Vanessa Williams, 20, is unique in at least two ways. She is the first black titleholder in the 62-year history of the contest, and she is delightfully willing to speak her mind...
September may be cool for the rest of baseball (American League Leaders Baltimore and Chicago have secure margins; the Dodgers seem safely ahead in the N.L. West), but in the unstable East, four struggling teams have remained within three games of the lead all month. Pittsburgh, Montreal and Philadelphia have...
It is even more difficult to conceive of all the ways--and Tygiel recounts many--in which baseball desegregation helped directly speed national efforts. Just consider the effect of teams bringing Blacks down to spring training. For Robinson's Dodgers, according to Tygiel, the tours through the South "challenged deeply...
While Tygiel is convincing in substance, though, he sometimes gets bogged down in overwrought academic analysis and jargon. He has an irritating tendency to resuscitate his general premises and conclusions every 20 pages or so; maybe he's thinking of some tenure committee somewhere. The point that he weaves implicitly...