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...strut, turn, grab crotch, strut) in favor of a stops-out, Paula Abdul kind of abandon. This boy can move, which is pretty much what he's been doing since the age of 11, when he started traveling with his hometown baseball team, the Oakland A's, as a bat boy and all-around gofer...
...drugged, kidnapped and gang-raped a female student at their off-campus home. Two players on Oklahoma University's football team were convicted of rape. In Glen Ridge, N.J., five high school jocks were charged with sexually assaulting a mentally impaired teenage girl with a broomstick and miniature baseball bat...
...Bush swinging and missing in the batter's box, wrote him a note: "I am convinced the reason you are not getting more hits is because you do not take a real cut at the ball. If you would put more power behind your swing, you would improve your batting average 100%." Bush added that he took the advice, and brought his average up over .250. This story has been retold as a goof on Bush: no bat then, no oomph now. But it ) cuts two ways, for Bush put in the work and did improve himself...
...back entries. He is used to having gates open for him. He grew up in New Orleans, the son of a prosperous light-skinned dentist who liked to stress the family's "Indian blood." When he played with white boys, it was because he owned the ball and bat. When he studied theology, it was not with Southern Baptists but with white Congregationalists in Connecticut. Baffled in his attempt to become a missionary to Africa, he became a New York bureaucrat in the National Council of Churches. Returning to the South in the late '50s, it was with Marshall Field...
...Years before he became the strikeout leader, he was the all-time walk king. As Bob Feller notes in his new autobiography: "Walks by a power pitcher like Ryan or me are like strikeouts by a power hitter. If you swing hard, it's more difficult to control the bat. If you throw hard, it's more difficult to control the ball." But in recent years Ryan has taught himself discipline. He still throws hard, but now he has a good idea where the ball is going. He gives up far fewer passes to first base. In his third...