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...been studying this for seven years, and now it's our turn to come to bat," he added...
Weller also swung the bat well yesterday, with two singles and a double to his credit. The team captain leads his squad in hitting with a 429 average and attributes his success to his ability to pull the ball more than he has in the past...
...Coach tells us to always look fastball, then adjust for the curve. Vallone said after his three-for-five, six-rb, performance. He choked up on the bat, followed some tips from Assistant Coach Barry Sullivan and just waited for the fastball. And when it came...
...swiveling 90° pivots must have been set by Wee Willie Keeler in 44 games over six seasons at the turn of the century. Manager Tony La Russa's idea is to excuse regular Third Baseman Vance Law from facing the ace righthanders and hope the lefthanded bat of former Gold Glove First Baseman Mike Squires is not offset by a nightmare of swinging bunts. "There is a no man's land halfway between the mound and third," Squires admits, "but how many people can bunt the ball consistently? Our pitchers will have to help...
...threw in a shack for Theenie, the family maid. The boy's private name for his father is the Progenitor, an impersonal though not inappropriate designation. Simons' parents are divorced; on visits, the Progenitor tries to exchange his son's mullet pole for a baseball bat and tempt him with the upscale life. But every paternal gesture meets with failure or misunderstanding. His sex lecture about contraception, for example, leaves Simons with the impression that the body part in question "is some kind of electric eel or polyp stinger you have to insulate with rubber...