SPORTS
November 2, 1987 | RON BERLER, Ron Berler is a free-lance writer in Chicago
Tennessee Jackson, in Chicago, and Red Mahoney, in Houston, could hardly contain themselves. The two retired ballplayers, gray-haired and in their 60s, had just received the happy news: The Hall of Fame had decided to include them in a special Cooperstown exhibit, tentatively scheduled for 1989. "This is so wonderful," said Jackson, a reserve outfielder who hit just .220 with three major league clubs in the 1940s. "All of a sudden, everyone wants to know about us."
NEWS
April 2, 2002 | KELLY CANDAELE, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
When the gods come to Earth on the baseball diamond this season, I'm rooting for the thieves and tricksters. We'd know they were stirring things up if, in today's opening-day Dodger game, there were four or five stolen bases and no home runs. That might be a sign that this year we won't have to sit through another mind-numbing chase to break a home-run record that no longer seems to matter.
SPORTS
March 30, 1993 | ARA NAJARIAN
Finally, Cal State Bakersfield's men's basketball team can revel in the thought of finishing the season undefeated. All season, the Roadrunners said that they weren't concerned with being unbeaten--that they simply tried to improve every game. They won their first game and improved 32 times thereafter. The Roadrunners' 85-72 victory over Troy (Ala.) State on Saturday at Springfield, Mass.