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...raised my head up to curse the Germans in the pillbox on our right flank who were continually shooting up the sand in front of me, one of the fragments from an 88-mm shell hit me in my left cheek. It felt like being hit with a baseball bat, only the results were much worse. My upper jaw was shattered; the left cheek was blown open. My upper lip was cut in half. I washed my face out in the cold, dirty Channel water and managed somehow not to pass out. I got rid of most of my equipment...
...with local boys, they'd set up stumps at the park around the corner or at the beach, where they chose between two types of pitch - fast (the hard sand) or a subcontinental turner (the soft stuff). These games could go for hours, like sessions of the various solo bat-and-ball activities that young Greg would settle for sometimes...
...Australia's national game is headed for strife. His reasoning goes like this. Life in the suburbs, in those precious hours between school and dinner, has changed. If they're not trekking home from distant schools, kids are more likely to be clutching a video-game controller than a bat. For many, their only experience of cricket is in its most structured forms, at the nets (where the coach may be barking at them) or in matches (where the pressure's on). For the gifted, more impediments lie ahead in the form of degree-brandishing coaches. "This is the antithesis...
...Dean of the Faculty William C.] Kirby is going to bat for us,” said Chadbourne, who sits on the Core program’s subcommittee on Literature and the Arts...
...walk, two singles and an error by sophomore shortstop Zak Farkes accounted for the other two Husky runs and Harvard was in a 3-0 hole before it even came up to bat...