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...sees the sport at its elemental best. For baseball is a game of catch. A pitcher throws the ball, and the batter watches. Half the time, according to a study in The Stats Baseball Scoreboard, he does not even swing. On more than 60% of all pitches, his bat does not touch the ball. The result is a lot more whiffs now than in the old days. Last year batters earned 3% more bases on balls than in 1930, but struck out 75% more often. Flash, not finesse, is the hallmark of modern, macho baseball, where a slugger would rather...
Last year in New Jersey seven middle-class teens allegedly took a miniature baseball bat and sexually assaulted a 17-year-old mentally impaired girl as six friends looked on. Who knows what demons haunted the boys? Were they all psychologically disturbed, or were they acting normally in a culture where sexual violence is deemed tolerable, even entertaining? All parents have to live with fears that their daughter will be the next one assaulted or that their son will be one of the culprits...
...were swinging the bat real well," Decareau said. "We could have scored another 10 runs the way we were hitting...
...some of these other schools, administrators are going to bat for the victims of this discrimination. In response to the expulsion of a ROTC student at MIT, that university's provost is set to release a strongly-worded statement this week calling on the Defense Department to revoke the ROTC policy and admit gays and lesbians. Bok and other administrators here should do the same...
Decareau strode to the plate after Jumbos' reliever Eric Zamor had jammed the bases. The first pitch from Zamor exploded like a cannon-ball off of the outfielder's bat, soaring 400 feet before coming to rest in the grass beyond the leftfield fence...