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Nickens promises to be the team's top left-hander again this season. He relies on control rather than speed, mixing curves and changes of speed rather than blowing the ball past the batter. His style, however, has sometimes hurt him because the strong wind at Soldiers' Field has a tendency to make a curve ball hang...
...will be hard to pitch around any batter in the Crimson line-up this spring. McGugan will lead off "because he makes things happen." Park said. Following McGugan will be either Hampe or Tucker, both of whom have the speed to bunt or break up a double play...
...best exemplified in the national past-time. If Americans are supposedly perfect Christians, then the athlete must be the perfect perfect Christian. If we, in our national mythology, are supposed to be rugged, steely individuals battling the frontier for survival, then the match-up of pitcher and batter, catcher and base-runner, steely-eyed individuals all, is the nonviolent equivalent of the duel between sheriff and gunfighter. The language of sportswriting reflects the popular mythology well. Pitchers "tame" hitters, runners are cut down "stealing" bases, and a crucial is a "duel." But who can imagine a classic confrontation between...
...story. A good amateur pitcher, Plimpton persuaded the editors of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and major league baseball officials to let him pitch to the pros before a post-season all-star exhibition game. What started as a lark quickly turned into nightmare. Under Plimpton's special rules, a batter did not have to swing unless he liked the pitch-and few of them liked his pitches. Ernie Banks, the reigning home run king of the National League at the time, let 22 go by. Exhausted, Plimpton heard an imaginary voice in his inner ear, speaking, for some unknown reason...
...team has no fat old men. Rookie Manager Sparky Anderson, himself the majors' youngest pilot at 36, starts his line-up card with five .300 hitters. They have a mid-August total of 118 home runs, and the oldest man among them is 28. The first batter an opposing pitcher has to face is Outfielder Pete Rose, who is pursuing his third straight batting title with a .328 average. Next comes Bobby Tolan, a .317-hitting centerfielder who has learned to add insult to injury by becoming baseball's most accomplished base thief. He has stolen...