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...Whattaya talkin' about?!" roared an enormous fat man behind the counter, brandishing a baseball bat. "Buy somethin' or get the hell outa heah...
...Gipper wound up and delivered a mitt- smacking strike that Dempsey described as a "good, hard fastball, sailing high." The President hung around the O's dugout for the first two innings, at one point devouring a mustard-smeared hot dog. The former radio sportscaster gripped an imaginary bat as he told stories about filming The Winning Team, in which he portrayed Pitching Great Grover Cleveland Alexander. Unfortunately for the O's, life has not yet imitated art. The team has lost all three games at which Reagan has pitched...
Some softball fans may recall last year's debut of the "place a runner on second base at the start of every extra inning" rule. In other words, starting in the eighth inning, the team at bat begins each frame with a bonus runner sitting on second--a plan designed to facilitate scoring and shorten lengthy deadlocks...
Other pitchers have been capable hitters, but none ever twirled a bat more eagerly than Gooden. Once, in a six-inning Little League game, he struck out 16 of 18 batters and hit two home runs. But the homers were what kept him awake all night. (He is prone to delight and insomnia.) "Sometimes in school I'd come in from right field or third base to relieve, and maybe even go back again. That was the best." Before Floyd and Dwight could be seniors together at Hillsborough, Youmans moved with his family to California. For Gooden, the mound felt...
...stupors, but even Tudor picked himself second for the Cy Young. "Just one time," Tudor said, "I'd like to throw a ball like that." Leaving only the archaic record holders in peace, Gooden forced Herb Score to share another modern mark: two 200-strikeout seasons right off the bat...