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...seasons and retired ten years ago. "At seven and eight Pete was really a little guy," recalls Brinkman, now a White Sox coach. "I'd pitch and he'd catch, and when the hitter swung and missed, Pete would stick the ball up in their face and say, 'Hey, batter, batter, batter.' " Pete was a banker's son, though his father was more famous for playing halfback with the semipro Cincinnati Bengals at the age of 42 and sparring with World Featherweight Champion Freddie Miller. "In high school," says Brinkman, "Pete was still pretty small...
...inner game of baseball that truly interested Cobb: theft of a base, the hit and run, advancing from first to third on a bunt and unbounded psyching of the opponent. He knew, for example, that Walter Johnson had a lethal fastball but that he never threw at the batter. So Cobb crowded the plate and worked the fireballer for walks and opposite-field hits. Cobb often drooped listlessly at the plate, then ran the bases furiously, colliding with infielders and leaving their blood in the dust. All along, he bench-jockeyed with the worst of them. More than the changed...
...Left Fielder Vince Coleman, stealer of 110 bases, who was gobbled up by an accidentally loosed automatic tarpaulin. Dusty Rhodes and Gene Tenace may have been unlikely World Series heroes in their day, but fate never rolled out a green carpet for anyone before. "When I stepped into the batter's box," said Landrum, who observed his 31st birthday on the Series' second off day, "I looked at my feet and couldn't believe they were mine." On top of everything else, he is from Joplin...
...share of troubles during the past year but is working desperately to solve them, did as much advertising at this World Series as some breweries. Most of the jailed Royals and confessed Cardinals have been dispersed, but the third game opened pointedly with Immunized Witness Lonnie Smith in the batter's box facing his former teammate, Joaquin Andujar, whose name Smith was generous enough to mention on a witness stand in early September. Maybe it is just a coincidence that Andujar won his 20th game on Aug. 23, and from that day lost eight of nine, including the third game...
...fact, second base remained untouched by Yale cleats until the final inning, when a leadoff double threatened Herrmann’s shutout. The Bulldog runner would later reach third—and a teammate first—on an error, and Herrmann would hit the next batter to fill the bases...