Bring back Dem Bums

BOB DOLE may not have been wrong; he may merely have been prescient. That, at least, is what some New Yorkers hope. On the stump in Los Angeles last September, Mr Dole dreamed aloud of emulating the success of the “Brooklyn Dodgers”--a somewhat behind-the-times reference to a baseball team that has been known as the Los Angeles Dodgers ever since it headed west after the 1957 season. Now, however, the team is up for sale, and George Pataki, New York's governor, is launching “an all-out effort” to return the Dodgers to Brooklyn. But the chances are that he will strike out.