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...caricature. For example, alone in his dark room after hearing the news, Nick fantasizes about getting sympathy hugs from the cute girl with braces against a setting sun, complete with puppy dog at their side. The book culminates in a true-life sports cliche as Nick goes up to bat for the team down by one in the bottom of the ninth with bases loaded and two outs in the championship game. Unlike fiction, the outcome makes little difference as Nick's father dies anyway, leaving Nick feeling deeply angry. In the book's preface, Nick Jeffrey wonders if this...
Later in the inning, Wallace misjudged a low fly ball to left—“I don’t think he picked it up off the bat right away,” Walsh said—allowing two more runs to score. In the first inning, the Tigers put four runs on the board overall...
...ground ball off a kid from Texas bat or a CSF bat is going to be the same thing off the bat of somebody from Cornell,” Walsh said. “We’ve just got to make those plays...
Mann, the power-hitting Crimson catcher, woke up his teammates with a rocket shot into the stands just beyond the home dugout to lead off the second. In the same at-bat, he bounded Harvard’s first hit of the day through the infield and, following a Steffan Wilson groundout, scored the Crimson’s first run of the NCAA Tournament...
...wasn’t all good news. In the last at-bat of Mann’s career—runners waited on second and third in the bottom of the ninth with a two-out, 14-6 deficit to overcome—the captain struck out to end the game. The final pitch: a called strike on a 3-2 fastball that looked inside. Gracefully, Mann bowed out and shook hands with the opposing team...