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What if Aaron connects for two home runs during the Braves' first three games in Cincinnati? "You can lead a batter to the box," says one unconcerned Braves fan, "but you can't make him homer." The Cincinnati Reds, though, are taking no chances. All balls pitched to Aaron will be invisibly coded to assure that the genuine home-run balls will be identifiable. Security forces will be on the alert, and one devoted fan will be at Riverfront Stadium every day accompanied by three policemen and $12,000 in cash to buy home-run ball...
...credit such subtleties to a director whose idea of a good visual pun is a man holding a turkey between his legs while a woman cuts the squealing bird's head off with an ax. Ferreri's other sight gags include a couple rutting around in pastry batter and a toilet exploding, inundating everyone in the vicinity with excrement. Much is alien to a sensibility like that, although little is beneath...
...last contest of the 1954 World Series, and the New York Giants had a deciding 3-0 edge in games over the Cleveland Indians. Cleveland had two outs and a man on third when the batter drove a long fly ball to deep center field. Willie Mays made one of his patented "basket" catches. Thinking there was only one out, he then wound up and fired a perfect strike to Catcher Wes Westrum at home plate in hopes of catching the runner trying for home (who was already dejectedly trotting toward the dugout). A Cleveland sportswriter turned to the boys...
Nope, it wasn't drugs or even payoffs that Pitcher Gaylord Perry of the Cleveland Indians was confessing. To the surprise of no American League batter, last year's Cy Young Award winner was making a clean breast of the spitball he threw "for the first, but hardly the last time" in 1964. In his autobiography, Me and the Spitter, to be published next year, Perry said that first spitball led him through "the mudball, the emery ball, the K-Y ball, the Vaselineball and the sweatball, to name a few. During the next eight years, I tried...
...baseball way of talking." So he has adopted a kind of baseball interlingua. It was not too difficult, for many of Japan's basic terms are taken straight from Abner Doubleday's lexicon: an out is outo, a hit is hitto, a homer is homma and a batter is a batta. Blasin game also mastered such words as massugu (straight), tsuyoku (strongly), yukkuri (slowly) and a lot of what might be called body Japanese. "A tiny gesture from Breiza," explains Hawk Out fielder Shuzo Aono, "and we more or less know what he is trying to tell...