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Some look for moral messages in sprees and schneiders. Joe DiMaggio's 56- game hitting streak, the ten-year hurdle of Edwin Moses, even (perversely) the 41 consecutive losses of the Columbia University football team are considered gold stars. Regarding Brooklyn First Baseman Gil Hodges' hitless World Series of 1952, the New York Times puzzled, "If he were a drinker or a playboy, it would be understandable. But he's a fine, clean-living paragon of good behavior." When the slump carried over into the next season, Hodges became the particular project of several orders of nuns...
...enough to the Copa, to seem to make a full circle. Mantle was even there a little earlier, still leering at 56. The funniest line was Martin's: "I guess I can't go anywhere anymore," as if he had been at midnight Mass. The saddest was Yankee First Baseman Don Mattingly's unintentional uppercut: "Who would hit a 60-year-old man? That's like beating up your grandfather...
...Rose, as if Rose were not only alive then but could still smell the yeast, "he would remind the porter to have the bathtub full of beer by the time he returned." Rose got the story straight from Waite Hoyt, the late pitcher and alcoholic, who along with Third Baseman Joe Dugan was a pallbearer at Ruth's funeral in August 1948. "I'd give $100 for a cold beer," Dugan whispered to Hoyt, who murmured, "So would the Babe...
Mahoney battled Weston to a full count before drilling a fastball over the fences for a grand slam. Five batters later, Big Green first baseman Mark Johnson polished off the Crimson with a two-run double...
...Tigers finally broke through against Dorrington in the top of the third inning, exploding for eight runs on five hits. The big blows for Princeton were a two-run homerun by designated hitter Brandon Montler and a three-run double by first baseman Brad Remig...