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2 Courage at the bat Two flinty veterans faced something more frightening than a 100-m.p.h. fastball: cancer. The Orioles' Eric Davis returned from chemotherapy for colon cancer to bat .310 in September. Brett Butler of the Dodgers, who had throat cancer, hit .283 and stole 15 bases. They win...
Of course, the players' union opposes a salary cap, but, as the installation of them in other major sports has proven, this obstacle is not insurmountable. The largest barrier is the resistance of a handful of owners. Whereas teams in smaller markets need to cut costs to survive, clubs playing...
DIED. RUSS MEYER, 74, hot-tempered pitcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers and other teams; of heart failure; in Oglesby, Ill. Over the course of 13 seasons, Meyers pitched in three World Series, but his most memorable performance was a dugout tantrum in 1953 that justified his moniker, "the Mad Monk...
Inevitably, though, Goodwin's attachment to baseball came into conflict with her strict Catholic regimen, with a gravity that could only be a child's. Goodwin's recollection of her First Confession is perhaps the most endearing scene in the book. "I wished harm to Allie Reynolds [the Yankee pitcher...
Goodwin explains in the book's introduction that she originally intended Wait Till Next Year to be the coming-of-age story of a Brooklyn Dodgers fan--a follow-up to her role in Ken Burns' documentary on baseball. Discovering her love for the Dodgers was inextricably entangled with her...