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...make a point of coddling their young. Time was when major-league rookies grew so tense under the pressure that Baltimore Manager Paul Richards can recall one shortstop who fell in a dead faint when a ball came his way. But at the Dodgers' training camp, Manager Walter Alston confines his criticism of Howard to such laconic reproaches as, "Wait until you see the ball before you swing." Shrugs hard-bitten Veteran Outfielder Carl Furillo: "Now it's all brotherly love with the Dodgers. I've got to pat the head of some goddam busher...
Second Game. Shaken by the opening-day debacle, Dodger Manager Walter Alston showed up for the game wearing mismatched socks, and slim Second Baseman Charley Neal (5 ft. 10 in., 156 Ibs.) worried aloud in the locker room that the pains in his stomach meant an ulcer. In the first inning Neal gave his stomach cause for more pain by botching a double-play ball, opened the way for two quick Sox runs. But in the fifth, Neal grimly homered into the lower left-field stands for a run-the first time the Dodgers had scored in 14 innings. Suddenly...
Lover Man, by Alston Anderson. Fifteen arresting short stories about smalltown Southern Negroes...
...salvaged a win in the fifth game, on Shaw's 9-hit shutout that involved some brilliant masterminding in the eighth, when Lopez and Alston battled for 20 minutes changing pitchers and pinch-hitters...
Lover Man, by Alston Anderson. Many an established author might envy this new writer these 15 expertly crafted stories about Negroes in a small Southern town...