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...when the Sox went into a deep tailspin in May (falling 10 games back), the city reacted as if it had been dumped. The love, the romance and the warm, happy moonlit nights were all gone. Sox Manager Butch Hobson was nearly fired over this breach of trust. Daily, he would be tarred and feathered in print, radio and television...
...around the All-Star break in July, the Sox put together a long winning streak and climbed back into first place. Lo and behold--pennant fever all over again. People started talking 1986. And in the most amazing reversal of all, Hobson got a two-year contract extension...
...games back again and on the brink of elimination. But people still care. In the last five months, Hobson has gone from "most likely to be the first manager to be fired" (spring training) to "genius" (April) to "embattled" (May-June tailspin) to "unparalleled motivator and baseball mind" (July revival) to "he's not great...
...Critics of Congress have a point when they say the legislature has eviscerated the President's constitutional veto power by submitting gigantic, combination-platter spending bills, often at the last minute. The President then has a Hobson's choice of signing on to the whole thing or shutting down the government. The line-item veto, which 43 Governors (including the Governor of Arkansas) have in one form or another, would give the President authority to approve or disapprove individual spending proposals. It would also, thereby, deny him the luxury of blaming Congress for excessive spending...
NORTHEASTERN: Washington 7-12 2-4 23; Artis 7-17 0-3 17; Jones 6-16 3-1 14; Hobson 1-7 3-2 4; Houser 1-5 0-4 2; McClintock 0-0 0-10 0; Robinson 0-4 3-2 0; Monday 0-0 0-2 0. Totals...