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...Sometimes you look at a kid and you know he's a natural," says Joe Sr. "I'd come home at lunchtime. He was about seven or eight months old. He'd have a ball and a bat in his hands, standing there waiting for me when I came in the door." Out in the backyard, Joe served Joey as both center and receiver. He swayed the tire through which Joey flung the footballs. In those games, the natural child was never anything but the quarterback. No time was wasted punting the ball or running with...
Doug Flynn, 30, weak-hitting Texas Rangers' second baseman and budding country and western music artist, commenting on his recent mastery of the guitar: "If I bat .220 again, I may have to learn how to play a few more instruments...
Long maintains that there were only two occasions in the past decade when his institution reduced its prime rate and the major banks around the country did not eventually do the same. Boasts he: "They haven't always followed us, but our batting average is pretty good." Some of those big financial-center banks, with all their legions of vice presidents and complex computers, would like to bat as well as Southwest...
PLAY, AMERICAN STYLE, refers less and less to a crack of a bat or even a hearty game of shuffleboard. If play provokes our spiritual development and teaches us better table manners, then we now learn the morality of snap decisions and reflexes. Painlessly, we can acquire the ethics of programmed logic and binary code. No more categorical imperatives, just capricious decisiveness and contingency plans...
...take should talks collapse. Other sections instruct diplomats that "being nice is no answer" and urge negotiators to "listen actively and acknowledge what is being said" and to "make the most of your assets." That's sort of like reminding a baseball batter to remember to bring his bat to the plate, and to keep his eye on the ball: You can't dispute the ideas, but they won't put a strike-out king on base...