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The distraction from his work Roth most willingly tolerates is baseball. "My fandom," he says, without a trace of irony, "is the most interesting fact of my life." He talks eagerly about going to games as a boy and watching the old Newark Bears of the International League along with...
The Zollner Pistons eventually became the Detroit Pistons, showing that some nicknames travel well. The Brooklyn Dodgers, named for the difficulty of evading trolley cars in the famous borough, are now the Los Angeles Dodgers, where evading mayhem on the freeways is equally hard. The name Los Angeles Lakers, however...
Baseball is, after all, a wholly American past time, with a wholly American past. The major leagues banned Black players until Jackie Robinson made it to the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. And Boston schools were segregated until the 1970s. Racism is hardly lacking a past in this Land of the...
-- Steve Howe, 28, once a dazzling pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers, was released from the minor-league San Jose Bees after tests showed traces of cocaine in his urine. The National League Rookie of the Year in 1980, Howe was dropped by the Dodgers last year because of his...
He has bombinated about his career in the Big Leagues twice, in The Umpire Strikes Back and Strike Two. Now Ron Luciano appears as you never saw him before: unemployed. He remains funny but unbowed: "The bankruptcy went very well. I've got the car running again." By the ump...