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...holidays are over. I don't know how I'm going to feel a month from now, or when the summer starts to get hot, or when the World Series comes around. I wonder what it's going to be like, never again seeing that look in the batter's eye with the bases loaded...
Numbers have always consoled him. In his final appearance in the batter's box, at twilight in Cincinnati, Rose struck out on three fastballs from Goose Gossage ("I had two strikes on me before I could get the doughnut off the bat"). He also struck out in his second-to-last try. But in the final three games that Rose started, he was 8 for 13, including his tenth 5-for-5 game, one of 13 records he set that day alone. "People wonder why I didn't pinch- hit myself last season for a ceremonial goodbye, but a manager...
...third swing at trying to nominate a Supreme Court Justice, Ronald Reagan adopted the strategy followed by many a batter on the verge of striking out: he stopped going for the home run and tried for the political equivalent of a clean single. Rather than again choosing a hard-line ideologue to replace the moderate Lewis Powell, the President last week selected the kind of jurist many of his pragmatic supporters felt he should have chosen at the start. Indeed, he picked the very man they had been urging from the beginning: Anthony Kennedy, a thoroughly experienced appeals-court judge...
...first batter tried to bunt him, as the first batters often do. Abbott is a genius at transferring his glove back and forth, but seeing is hardly believing. He smartly fielded first the bunt and later the question about it. "The way I look at it, if a hitter is weak on the inside, that's where I'm going to pitch him. If they think I can't field, I don't blame them for trying to bunt." In a five-inning stint, Abbott allowed the Nicaraguans just three hits, and they were beaten 18-0. Those...
Long ago, Leo Durocher said that nice guys finish last. Baseball players are finally taking his advice. Pitchers who play a little chin music no longer receive the benefit of the doubt. Throwing the high hard stuff inside is tantamount to a declaration of war, and retaliation by the batter follows shortly...