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That launched the shutdown of Oriole hitters by Pittsburgh pitchers. Proud possessors of the most successful starting rotation in all of baseball, the Orioles suddenly found themselves outmanned on the mound by a ragtag collection of starting relievers, relieving starters and the ubiquitous Tekulve, who iced the last two Pi rate wins by facing 15 batters and giving up just one single. In the final three games, Baltimore scored only two runs, while Pittsburgh mowed down Baltimore's best...
...summer of 1907, Edward Wyllis Scripps, the eccentric Ohio newspaper entrepreneur, strung together a ragtag assortment of reporters, telegraph operators and rewrite men to form the United Press. Though the fledgling wire service had just $500 in working capital, Scripps gave it a difficult mission: take on the mighty Associated Press, a cooperative owned by its client newspapers and established more than half a century earlier. By late summer U P. had miraculously captured 369 U.S. papers as clients, and it looked as if Scripps' folly might soon overtake A.P. as the nation's premier wire service...
...Shanti Spaeth and her husband Karl regard street music as theater. They unashamedly cater to the tourists around Jackson Square, in New Orleans' French Quarter, by wearing ragtag getups and going barefoot. Karl, besides playing guitar, mandolin and trombone, laces their performances with his own political jokes and humorous songs (Ain 't No Sin to Take off Your Skin and Dance Around in Your Bones). But all is seriousness when Shanti belts out blues or scats like Ella Fitzgerald on Satin Doll. The couple were married nine days after meeting at a crafts fair in Oregon a year...
...hero than the golden-hearted boxer from the slums of Rocky, Stallone blankly trots out the well-worn gimmicks that made his last movie a success. Meet Cuff and Link, Rocky's turtles, for the second time. See Rocky run through downtown Philadelphia again--this time followed by a ragtag of urchins that turns him into an Italian Pied Piper. Listen to Talia Shire tell Stallone she loves him three times in the same scene...
...Carlos Fonseca Amador, a Cuban-trained guerrilla who was slain by Somoza's troops two years ago. Named for Augusto César Sandino, a legendary nationalist guerrilla murdered on the order of Somoza's father in 1934, the Sandinistas started out as a ragtag rebel band that staged sporadic raids on isolated government outposts. Since then, the Sandinistas' ranks have swelled to 3,000 or so battle-hardened fighters armed with an assortment of modern weapons...