JACK’S EGO IS GRANDLY SLAMMED
TORONTO — Jack Morris has always been a vindictive cuss when it comes to the media, so it didn’t surprise me Wednesday night — the night before he was supposed to win the World Series for his latest employers, the Toronto Blue Jays — that he...
WINFIELD IMPARTS A GOLDEN TOUCH
TORONTO — “Touch me!” Dave Winfield was saying, his eyes bulging, his voice rising like a TV evangelist’s. “Touch me now! Feel my strength! Absorb it!”OK. I admit. I was tempted. This was Tuesday night, Winfield had just helped win...
PAYS NO HEED TO MAN-MADE BORDERS
TORONTO — A cold rain fell on the first World Series game ever held in Canada, the same rain that wet the U.S. earlier in the day. Funny how rain works that way. Goes where it wants. Pays no attention to borders.Inside the spectacular SkyDome, two hours before...
Real Pastime A Real Mystery To Canadians
TORONTO — Here I am in Canada, wandering in the wilderness. I am carrying my bat and glove. I have come to talk baseball to the youth of this nation. Tonight is the first World Series game ever outside America.
I have a job to do.
Ah. Here come a couple kids now.
Hi, kids. What are your names?
“Bob.”
“Doug.”
Let’s talk about the National Pastime. You do know what the National Pastime is, don’t you?
“Hockey!”
“Yeah, hockey!”
MODERN ADS CAN BE X-TREMELY CONFUSING
The following is X-rated. Grab the kids. Cover their eyes. We are looking through magazines. Not Playboy. Not Penthouse. Not even True Romance, or Wild Biker Digest.We are looking at three very respectable publications: Esquire, Vanity Fair and GQ.We are looking at ....
No Debate: This Game Stunk From The Start
MINNEAPOLIS — I would like to tell you how this dead skunk of a football game ended, but I must admit, I stopped watching somewhere between the Vikings’ third touchdown and the Lions’ fifth stupid penalty — which, I believe, was about nine seconds into the game. Talk about quick death! I could have left the stadium knowing the outcome of this game and scalped my tickets to fans still coming in.
THERE’S NO QUIT IN LIONS . . . OR ME
* LIONS 21, VIKINGS 20: Although I should say right here that I had such a dismal week of picks last week, I don’t know why anyone would listen to me.* NEW ORLEANS 14, PHOENIX 9: Really, I was so bad, maybe I should just quit.* CLEVELAND 13, GREEN BAY 6:...
IN A FLASH, TRICKY RICKEY LEAVES BLUE JAYS ABUZZ
OAKLAND, Calif. — If Rickey Henderson were an insect he’d be a gnat, buzzing in your ear, watering your eyes, tickling your nostrils, everywhere and nowhere. You try to swat him and you miss. Where is he? Why can’t you catch him? In other words, a...
Morris And Eckersley: October Of Their Years?
OAKLAND, Calif. — That sound you heard Sunday afternoon was two legends falling off the rainbow. The difference is, one landed in clover, the other flat on his back.
I am talking Jack Morris. I am talking Dennis Eckersley. Once upon a time, they would have made a complete pitching staff by themselves. Let Morris go eight innings, drag him off the mound with the smoke coming from his nostrils,
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