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...involved. Even now, if I had my choice, I'd rather play every day. Given the chance, I honestly think I could put up some hitting statistics." His preference would be to swing lefthanded, but to safeguard his priceless arm from inside pitches, the Mets require him to bat from the right. Nonetheless, he has cracked three hits in the same game off no less than Los Angeles Rival Fernando Valenzuela. "I'm lucky to have one hit in two years off him," grins Fernando, a grizzled veteran of 25. With quite a different pitch but a similar acclaim, Valenzuela...
Here is little Cupid as a London linkboy, sporting demonic bat wings and an immense phallic torch to remind those in the know of the proclivities of a certain patron. And here are Reynolds' friends in the learned Society of Dilettanti, arguing about antiquities and knocking back the vintage claret, while Sir William Hamilton points to an engraving of one of his own Greek vases and Mr. John Taylor holds up a lady's garter. Peering into this lost world--reprehensible, no doubt, for its elitism, sexism, amateurism and other social vices, yet not without its allure--one realizes what...
While Blair may get a chance to earn his living with a quick glove and rapid reflexes, he'll have a stick, not a bat in his hand. He'll be wearing a flashy Calgary Flames jersey, not demure Yankee pinstripes. And he'll be towing...
Although he was a pitcher and shortstop ("because I always like to be involved in the game like the goalie") for a powerful local baseball entry, Blair laid down his fielder's mitt and bat forever...
...final swimmers came in for the last lap they were almost even. In the final lunge, the difference between us and them was only a bat...