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John Updike’s “lyric little bandbox of a ballpark...
...homegrown player, who moved up to fourth in the batting order for the American Leaguers' odd year of nine-man baseball, when "Hired Hitter" Hal McRae became a designated sitter. A graduate of the defunct Kansas City Royals Baseball Academy, White was raised in the shadow of the old ballpark at Second and Brooklyn, but not to be a cleanup hitter. "When I hit a home run, I'm as surprised as the next guy," he said after smashing a resounding one for wonderful young Pitcher Bret Saberhagen in a 6-1 celebration. As Pendleton supplied a counterpoint to Brett...
When he was elected mayor in 2000, Dick Murphy thought he had his hands full dealing with a troubled ballpark project and sewer spills that were shutting down San Diego's beaches. But then Murphy, 62, a state superior court judge, became embroiled in an even bigger mess: a $1.35 billion deficit at the city's public-employee pension fund. The crisis has so discredited him, he almost lost his job last November to Donna Frye, a last-minute write-in candidate who runs a surf shop. She actually won more votes, but some 5,500 people who wrote...
...pitchers didn’t keep the ball in the ballpark,” Allard said. “We can’t do that against a team like this...
...Miller hit the ball all around the ballpark on us last year” Walsh said. “It was a little dangerous when they got that winning run over to second, but Coach Hyde made a good move bringing the outfielders in right before [Pauly batted...