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...Angeles Angels Manager Bill Rigney thinks the bats, not the balls, are responsible. "They have a harder finish." says he. "And the light bats have that good whip action." As if to back up Rigney, the Tigers' Cash does his heavy hitting with a 31-oz. bat. lightest on the team. By comparison. Ruth used to tote a 42-oz. shillelagh to the plate...
Dodger Pitcher Don Drysdale is just about the only man to credit the ballplayers themselves. "There are just better hitters around." said he last week, "and they're hitting the long ball." With that, Drysdale stepped up to bat against the Chicago Cubs at the Coliseum, belted his second home run of the season...
...Talking Bat. So well has Dykes' magic worked that Piersall has yet to be bounced from a game this year. And Piersall has brought more to the Indians than a somewhat mellowed manner. Concentrating on his hitting, he has stopped undercutting the ball and has picked up pointers from an ex-Indian infielder, Joey Sewell. Says Piersall: "Sewell's made a thinking hitter out of me. Now I vary my stance according to what the pitcher throws." Last week, at the end of a blazingly-game stretch in which he hit .515 with 34 hits...
...would be beggared by the facts. Clem Anderson is a thinly disguised Midwestern incarnation of Thomas, and as the novel opens, he is 37, newly successful, about to marry a blonde Hollywood starlet, and already suffering the physical penalties of literary lionization-"the bloaty softness of his face, the bat's-flesh bags under his eyes." From that high or low point, Novelist Cassill traces the fever chart of Clem's fatal illness-his life-in an intricate series of flashbacks...
...more about the moth's methods of escape, the two scientists set up a floodlight and trained a camera on its beam. When an insect flew across the floodlit area, the operators opened the camera's shutter and turned on their electronic beeper to simulate a cruising bat. "Many insects." say Roeder and Treat, "showed no change in flight pattern when they encountered the sound. In others, the changes in flight path were dramatic in their abruptness and bewildering in their variety. One of the commonest reactions was a sharp power dive into the grass. Almost as frequently...