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...career as a grammar-school nine-year-old. One day in 1958, while he was playing third base for the Brentwood Cardinals, a suburban St. Louis amateur team, the starting pitcher broke his leg, and the manager sent twelve-year-old Mike to the mound. Jones walked the first batter, struck out the next 18, won the game-and became the team's No. I pitcher. Over the next three seasons, he ran up such an impressive record that he attracted major-league scouts, among them a scout from the St. Louis Cardinals...
...baseball. He once counseled a teen-age catcher: "You're doing fine, son. But here's something you might try. When the pitcher has already thrown the ball and the umpire is looking at it, you grab a handful of dirt and fling it up into the batter's eyes...
...make mistakes and get away with them. If I make a mistake, it's the ball game." Though his tactics are complex. Elston's strategy is simple. Called to the mound with men on base and nobody out, Elston tries desperately to strike out the first batter. "You can't be afraid." he says, "to throw a strike in an important situation-to a guy you know can hit the ball out of the park." With one out. Elston deliberately aims his pitches low in an effort to force the hitter to ground into a double play...
...Temple City, Calif.. Little League. But he had already put in one year patiently serving as his team's bat boy, and last week Barry got his chance to play. His father, Jack Babcock. watched proudly from the stands as Barry stepped into the batter...
Boone relieved him and struck out the first batter; but a walk, sacrifice fly, and a single off Boone's leg brought in three runs before the end of the inning. The lefthander set the side down in the ninth with only a walk...