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...Patagonian Express rose to fame from the pages of Paul Theroux's 1979 best seller, this narrow-gauge line in southern Argentina has been a Mecca for steam-train lovers. "We're still running the same original engines from the year 1922," says El Maiten stationmaster Marcelo Ballerini. "Tourists arrive from all over the world to ride it." Threatened with extinction at various times during recent years, this fully steam-operated line running across the dry Patagonian steppes has been kept alive by Theroux's readers and a few locals who still board it along...
...John Sorich came in from the bullpen and after running the count on Snarsky to 3-1, got him to ground to shortstop. The ball, however, skipped up off the bumpy infield and ricocheted off Tony DiCesare's shoulder and into center field, scoring two more runs, all that Ballerini would need on this...
...Crimson had only frustrations for a good part of yesterday's doubleheader. In the opening game, the Harvard batters could manage only four hits off herky-jerky right-hander Pete Ballerini (3-4). For seven innings Ballerini and his hesitation motion did pirouettes around the Harvard bats, allowing just one Crimson runner as far as third base--on Bruce Weller's two-out triple in the third...
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