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...hour before game time last Saturday. Someone behind where Ron and I were sitting had a transistor radio on with Joe Garagiola babbling about the Reds' starting pitcher, Don Gullett. "I think you'd have to call Gullett a pure pitcher," Garagiola said. "And with his ability to bat, you'd have to call him a pure hitter, too. For that matter, Gullett's just a pure athlete...
...epochal day in 1918, a flaky Pittsburgh Pirate stepped up to bat against the Brooklyn Dodgers. As the home crowd razzed him, the outfielder doffed his cap-and released a sparrow...
...generations of Americans, Casey Stengel was an essential part of the national pastime-the canny, clownish manager of New York City's worst and best teams, the brand-new Mets and the old-gold Yankees. Hardly a man is now alive who remembers Casey at the bat. For the record, Stengel was a hitter who had a knack for connecting in the clutch. To use his own phrase, he treated the ball as if he hated it-and he sometimes fielded that...
Suddenly, Lynn's bat launches the ball in the direction of Chelsea. It lands instead in the Sox bullpen. Fifty-seven years later, the Sox rule the world...
...rationality. For instance, I always hated those Cincinnati fans--every one of them. I mean, really, year after year since Gilette introduced that fan All Star game balloting system I have dutifully cast my 10,000 votes per season for Larry Bowa, the Phillies' incredibly sure-handed and now bat-strong shortstop...