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...AIDS activists in Madison Square Garden. Instead it turned into another Bush public relations fiasco. Showing uncommon disrespect for the man as well as the office, the crowd at San Diego's Jack Murphy Stadium booed Bush as he strode to the pitcher's mound with the legendary slugger Ted Williams -- not exactly the image he wished to convey to roughly 22 million television viewers...
Like a once great slugger emerging from a long slump, George Bush finally pushed one over the bleachers last week. After 10 months of maneuvering to little effect on the recession, the Los Angeles riots and the Rio Earth Summit, Bush won from Boris Yeltsin a breakthrough arms-control deal and engineered the horseshoe-throwing, arm-around-Barbara scenes that remind people of his other up-close-and-personal diplomatic triumphs...
...winning season last year. The Pirates blame this paradox largely on soaring players' salaries, which cost $24 million, or 52% of the club's revenues, last year. To make ends meet, Pittsburgh cut more than $7 million from its payroll by trading 20-game winner John Smiley and letting slugger Bobby Bonilla become a free agent...
...beautiful Memorial Stadium with gorgeous Oriole Park at Camden Yards. So the seats are wider and the aisles are larger. The upper deck looks a lot like Wrigley's, with open-air fences in the back. The B&O Warehouse behind right field brings a smile to every slugger's lips; you can reach it with a 460-foot bomb. 'Nuff said. Walk in and you'll be intoxicated...
Though the 1991 Crimson finished a more promising 21-17, mishaps continued. Seconds before Harvard's takeoff to its new spring break destination, Fort Meyers, slugger Bev Armstrong had not yet boarded the plane...