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...Rick Stanton, chief legislative aide to Gov. Edward J. King, said late last night it "would be premature" to say if the governor would sign the bill but added "nobody is going to be disappointed, if you get my drift...
...best-looking guy in baseball? When the Baltimore Orioles came to play Seattle, the matter was put before the supreme judges of player pulchritude: the Mariners' wives. The surprising result: a home-town favorite, Pitcher Rick Honeycutt, placed second to Orioles Pitcher Jim Palmer in a ranking of baseball's top ten hunks. The criteria for the contest were a little unclear, observed Debbie Honeycutt, wife of the runner-up. "We weren't sure whether they wanted it from the neck up, the neck down or both." Palmer modestly admits his ads for Jockey briefs may have...
...seems, have been stranded on third for many years now. But no matter where you come from, it's impossible to dislike a team which fields Yaz, Perez, Lynn, Fisk, the incomparable Jim Rice, Rick Burleson, Butch Hobson, Jerry Remy and rifle-armed Dewey Evans, currently mired in a batting slump. And Fenway Park has a life of its own--like the hotel in Stanley Kubrick's latest flick, it "shines." Small enough to afford a good view of the action from any seat in the house. Fenway has a communal quality all too uncommon in these days of prefab...
About halfway through this collection of ten short stories and a novella, a Class C minor league baseball player named Rick Stanley hits a home run: "It would happen again, in other ball parks, in other seasons; and if Stanley had been able to cause it instead of having it happen to him, he would be in the major leagues." Author Andre Dubus, 43, specializes in such people, interested but hapless spectators of their own lives. Although many of his characters are physically rooted in New England mill towns, they walk the streets as moral transients. "Should and shouldn...
...Hell's Angel connected with the San Rafael auto body shop that according to the prosecution was a center of drug dealing, mayhem and murder. Bryant appears to be just the type the public thinks of when it thinks of Hell's Angels. In 1975 Bryant, Overstreet, Rick Robles and another Angel were accused in the beating and shooting death of a man called "Hippie Richard." Bryant's testimony helped convict Robles, and the rest went free. Bryant was considered so valuable a witness that he is still enjoying a new life "on the program"-the Witness...