Word: batters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cleveland Browns breaks loose up the middle." says Patton in discussing the science of the safety man, "I don't watch his head. He can fake me with his head. I watch his belt buckle, and I keep my eye on it, just the way a batter watches a baseball. He can't wiggle that belt buckle. I get down low enough to get below his shoulder and try to hit him headon. It's easy enough to get to Brown's belly. Holding on to him is another matter. A fullback like Brown can spin...
Murtaugh, former Major Leaguer who made good as a manager this year, announced his lineup yesterday with no surprises. As he promised earlier this week, he will start Dick Stuart at first base although Stuart is a right-handed batter who will be facing a right-handed pitcher...
...chews tobacco with the rest of the boys, Brosnan is one of the game's rarer types: he reads Rousseau and Nietzsche, puffs on a pipe, studies his fellows through owlish spectacles, and naturally is nicknamed "the Professor." He is fond of recalling how he once dumfounded a batter by declaring from the mound: "Us ne passeront...
...sharpen their gibes, the intent Brosnan professes to catch not a word: "I probably have a subconscious baffle to keep from hearing anything." A man who has spent eight months in analysis. Brosnan easily spots the main reason for his new success: he no longer relies on outthinking the batter. "Writing about pitching forced me to recognize how simple it is," he says. "Before, I thought it couldn't possibly be that simple. If I ever get back to thinking instead of pitching, I'm in trouble...
...keep his mind off his work, Brosnan is now in the early stages of writing a series of short stories about baseball (his favorite plot: a pitcher is ordered to throw a beanball and kills a batter). He whiles away time by wandering through book shops and inquiring hopefully if they are sold out of The Long Season (total national sales: 10,000, enough to make the New York Herald Tribune's bestseller list). Then he scoops up armfuls of volumes ranging from Moss Hart to William James and strolls back to his hotel to forget about the problem...