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After an infield error and a single to left, Forman found himself with the bases loaded, nobody out and Wallin, the Eagles' top slugger, up at bat...
...ordinarily bright spring-training atmosphere was further darkened by proliferating reports that Rose has blown his fortune on wagers. The Dayton Daily News stated that he recently sold the bat and ball from his record 4,192nd hit. Rose responded with a melancholy "No comment." None of his comments throughout the besieged week were more expansive than a flippant remark to S.I.: "I'd be willing to bet you, if I was a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball...
...first hitter he faced in batting practice was Lance Parrish, a former Detroit catcher he had been partial to in Flint. ("I definitely didn't want to bean him.") The ball came flying back with a wonderful new timbre. "He was the first guy I ever faced with a wooden bat," says Abbott, too young to see the sadness in how far a player has to come these days to escape aluminum. After hitting against the rookie, Parrish moved behind the plate: "He probably has as strong an arm as any lefthander I've ever caught. His motion...
Incidentally, Pete Gray lasted just the solitary year because he hit but .218 one-handed. As a pitcher, Abbott is excused from batting chores by the American League's designated-hitter rule, though it may be the other pitchers who should celebrate. At Michigan he came to bat a total of three times. After grounding out to third, he singled in the infield and then cracked a clean hit to right. Two for three. That's .667 lifetime...
...long, winter off-season, we pretend to be interested in other sports, but most of us are only statues, disembodied figures who are waiting for that first pitch, that first crack of the bat...