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...Miller-Boyett comedy stylebook, no joke is too broad, no character too outlandish, no plot twist too cloying. When a four-year-old in Full House is told she can be a batboy on the Little League team, you can bet she'll come downstairs wearing a Batman costume (and get a big laugh for it). On the morning of his wedding day, one of the three dads sneaks off to go skydiving (why not?). He gets stuck in a tree, falls into a truckload of tomatoes and arrives hours late for the awww-inspiring ceremony. A better response...
...pitch travels to the plate in less than a second. Then everyone hangs out for an eternity. During this time, the pitcher rubs the ball, the batter adjusts his jock, the manager spits tobacco on his shoes, the batboy sprints across the field for no apparent reason, the owner sells a racetrack, the designated hitter does a line of coke, the fat slob in the fourth row spills his beer, the usher sells a We're Number One felt finger, the mascot kisses a bikini-clad fan, the general manager exiles a third baseman to Cleveland for a player...
...camped on a folding chair behind a batting cage near an orange grove, counting pitches. "Spring and baseball," muses the California Angels' most seasoned coach, "don't change very much." Reese knows something about both. Seventy-two springs ago, he was the Pacific Coast League Angels' eleven-year-old batboy for "Peerless" Frank Chance. Playing with the Yankees in 1930, Reese and Lefty Gomez split a $2-a- day suite at the new Edison Hotel. On the road, Jimmie stayed with Babe Ruth. "I roomed with the Babe's luggage, mostly," he says in a tone of wake- me-when...
Spring baseball is a tradition in Sarasota, a retirement community of 51,000 people. Before the Red Sox moved to Winter Haven over two decades ago, the team used to train at Payne. At least one long-time Payne usher--who served as a batboy for Ted Williams--remains loyal, however. "I've always been a [Red] Sox fan, and I always will be," he says with a sense of finality...
Until recently, Tampa's most prominent baseball dreamer has been the San Diego first baseman Steve Garvey, formerly of the Los Angeles Dodgers, whose father served as the Brooklyn Dodgers' springtime bus driver in the '50s. Rising from Dodger batboy to star of the team, Garvey prepared Tampa well for its improbable position now as producer of both the most effective pitcher and the most efficient hitter in baseball: the Mets right-hander Gooden and the Boston Red Sox third baseman Wade Boggs. One, the National League Cy Young Award winner by acclamation last year (24-4 record, 268 strikeouts...