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...Finance at New York University and board member of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Ritter traveled some 75,000 miles lugging his tape recorder around America in search of some of the shortstops of yesteryear. Some were easy to find Others, like Hall of Famer and former Tiger star Sam Crawford--who has no telephone and tells no one where he lives were not Ritter tracked these men down and talked with them about their game, their lives and their country. The results are almost verbatim accounts, with some editing to enhance the book's readability. The results...
UNBEATABLE SHORT MAN. Detroit Reliever Willie Hernandez saving 32 of 33 games and becoming the MVP of the Tigers and the American League. On the subject of welcome deliveries, honorable mention to Owner Tom Monaghan, who helicoptered his company's pizzas into Tiger Stadium to feed players and press trapped by rioting Detroiters celebrating the World Series victory...
Aware that he could not survive in office without the army's allegiance, Duarte asserted his control over the military with the care reserved for a freshly housebroken tiger. He toured barracks and plotted strategy, but always in consultation with the beribboned officers who once ran El Salvador...
...came to Harvard after nine years of coaching the Hamilton Tiger Cats of the Canadian Football League, and seems truly to appreciate the college game more than. Its professional counterpart...
...thus became the fourth American League pitcher to win both awards. Rollie Fingers of Milwaukee did it in 1981, Oakland's Vida Blue won both in 1971, and Denny McLain of Detroit, the last Tiger MVP, swept the awards...