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Southpaws Are Expansion Favorites As baseball's expansion teams from Tampa and Arizona make their draft picks, the hot item on everyone's shopping list appears to be left-handed pitchers...
...When those noveau riche Sun Belt teams in Arizona and Tampa conducted their raid on the talent of their older cousins Tuesday afternoon, both immediately went for left-handed pitching. Tampa selected Florida left-hander Tony Saunders with its first pick, while Arizona picked Cleveland lefty Brian Anderson. The draft was further indication of the triumph of America's changing demographics over baseball tradition, as baseball created two new haves in the Sun Belt at the expense of have-nots such as Pittsburgh and Kansas City, old baseball teams in declining cities that can ill-afford to replace the talent...
Journalism is often called the first, rough draft of history. In some ways The Dark Side of Camelot is just that. Hersh has done the spadework that the writing of history requires, but it also requires judgment, prudence and a willingness to be satisfied sometimes with ambiguous conclusions when human nature (and the best-seller list) prefers the comfort of certainties...
Though the parties are bound by a gag order, the fight has raged in the press for months. Katzenberg's side went after a draft of Eisner's autobiography, which Eisner had intended to publish this fall but postponed because of the trial. The Katzenberg camp let it be known that there were potentially embarrassing tidbits in the book. The Katzenbergers also hinted that Disney had conducted some sort of conspiracy to shortchange their man. And in one of those unaccountable leaks, it was reported that Katzenberg had prevailed in a couple of mock trials. An insider maintains that...
...draft of the clarification, which was obtained last night by The Crimson, will be presented at tomorrow's meeting of the Committee on College Life...