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Sandy Koufax's curve ball was low and inside. Juan Marichal, 27, ace pitcher (record: 19-9) of the San Francisco Giants, stood in the batter's box and watched it go by. Behind him, Los Angeles Dodger Catcher John Roseboro wound up, took aim and rifled the return throw right past the batter's ear. Marichal spun around. "Why do you do that? Why you do that?" he screamed. Roseboro did not answer. He started straight for Marichal, and in front of 42,807 horrified-or delighted, as the case may be-fans, Marichal swung...
...stolen bases in 22 attempts) as well as a natural hitter who says, "I just grab a bat and look for the baseball. If it's near the plate, I swing at it." Technically, he does almost everything wrong: he stands at the very back of the batter's box (where it is practically impossible to reach pitches before they break), has a hitch in his swing, hits off his forward foot, regularly swings at the first pitch, is a notorious bad ball hitter. "I've seen Hank hit pitches right off his ear into the rightfield...
Last week in St. Louis, Hank leaned clear across the plate to reach for a wide, soft curve thrown by the Cardinals' Curt Simmons. He belted it onto the rightfield pavilion roof−but Umpire Chris Pelekoudas called him out for stepping out of the batter's box. Groused Aaron: "He didn't say anything the time before, when I did the same thing and popped up." Some pitchers think that Aaron toys with them, making himself look bad on certain pitches so they will throw the same pitches again. But Hank himself insists that there...
...Batter my heart, three-person'd God. "Trinity," Oppenheimer said, "we'll call it Trinity...
...supper from a starving Kate is one of the few truly comic spots in the show, and it climaxes in Kate's stuffing a string of sausages surreptitiously down her bodice only to have Petruchio extract it. Elsewhere, she takes off one of her two high-heeled slippers to batter Petruchio, which gives a delightful new twist to his line. "Why does the world report that Kate doth limp...