One interrupted month into the season and it’s the Cleveland Indians and St. Louis Cardinals with the early lead. The Cardinals are in front in a little more dominant fashion as Bob Gibson leads the team. Cleveland has three of its starters listed atop the ERA leaderboard for the American League. It is no surprise that the Atlanta Braves are in second place,but it is a surprise that the Braves,like the Indians,have three starters win,place and show on the NL ERA leaderboard. The talk around the Braves that last few years is that if their pitching came around they had the lineup to win. But,it seems like all the hitters left their bats behind in spring training. I’m sure things will heat up once summertime rolls around. You can also tell at this point of the season where some individual performances that are carrying certain teams. Oakland’s Rick Monday,the number one amateur pick three years ago,has lifted the transplanted Athletics into second place.
The month of April ends almost as crazy as it started. New York’s Republican governor Nelson Rockefeller,who last month denied interest in the presidential race,jumped both feet in after a write-in victory in the Massachusetts primary. My parents said he had an adviser who was involved with the wife of a big-shot Madison Avenue ad man,and broke up his family. But what the hell,Rockefeller himself is divorced. I don’t think those things matter much to people these days. Frustration has just really boiled over everywhere,even in the button-down,straight-laced Ivy League. Columbia University was the scene for a sit-in that went bad. Police stormed the building in the middle of the night to disrupt the demonstration,and several people and police were injured. Well,speaking of which,I gotta head to class.
