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Maybe he does. Anybody who can take a team that doesn't have a single batter hitting over .280 and turn it into a pennant contender is bound to be a personality of some sort...
...Your Essay is a lot of baloney. Today's sport stars have not, as you claim, eclipsed the great stars of the 1920s. For example, Jim Thorpe could outkick any kicker today. No batter today in the big leagues can even make a good sacrifice bunt. Very few pitchers today can go nine innings, and no pitcher today makes a patch on Dizzy Dean's or Satchel Paige's pants...
Last week, facing the Detroit Tigers, Steve went at it another way-like a wild man on the mound scaring batters half to death. In the first inning he walked one man; in the second he walked another; in the third he hit a batter. By the fifth inning, Baltimore Manager Hank Bauer was ready to yank him for a reliever. But the Tigers were so busy ducking that no one had even got a hit. On into the ninth it went, with the Orioles leading 1-0 and nothing but goose eggs for the Tigers. By now Steve...
With a sigh, Manager Bauer took Barber out and waved in Reliever Stu Miller. The next Detroit batter rapped Miller's first pitch up the middle for an easy third out-except that Second Baseman Mark Belanger dropped the force throw as another Detroit run crossed the plate. Final score: Tigers 2, Orioles 1; thus putting Barber and Miller into the records as the first two pitchers in baseball history to combine on a no-hitter in nine innings and still lose the game. Said Barber wistfully: "Well, if I ever do get another one, I'd like...
WHEN the Chartists marched on Parliament in 1839 to protest the plight of Britain's working class they did not, as some feared, batter down the doors. Instead, in a tactic they were to use twice more in the next decade, they brought forth a scroll that stretched for three miles and contained 1,200,000 signatures. Each time the lawmakers bluntly rejected their demands. Despite this failure, the Chartist movement was a dramatic expression of a right that runs threadlike through Anglo-American history, secured in Eng land first by the barons, then by Parliament, and finally...