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...convince a batter that he can hit a ball traveling 90 m.p.h. A good manager can impart confidence in myriad ways: leaving a pitcher in the game to work his way out of trouble, letting a batter swing away on a 3-0 count, praising on the bench, and doing the dressing down in private. Says Baltimore's Earl Weaver, the winningest manager in baseball today: "If a person can get to the subconscious, then he is going to get a lot more adrenalin flowing or a lot more out of the human body than it might be capable...
Mental lapses bring us to the third and final item on the list--attitude. If there had been any doubts beforehand, yesterday's 100 or so spectators can attest to the lax-women's enthusiasm. Cheers from the offense, defense and the bench met goals one through...
...left-handed shortstop steps up to the plate. It's a tie ball game--two-all in the fifth--and the infielders shout encouragement to the pitcher and heckle the diminutive hitter. Cheers resound from the batter's bench--"Come on Dr. longball, hit another homer. "The infield, hearing this, takes a few steps back. The pitch: a swing. it's a hit, not a crackling liner that sends the second baseman diving. But rather a dainty dribbler that leaves the third baseman stymied in her shoes as the softball slowly scoots along the third base line and comes...
When Circuit Court Judge Byron Kinder stepped to the bench in his Jefferson City, Mo., courtroom one day last week, he looked down on an unusual audience: 100 lawyers. They were not there by choice; they had come in response to a subpoena that warned, "Fail not to appear at your own peril." All 100 work for Missouri agencies based in Jefferson City, the state capital. In a drastic and perhaps unprecedented step, Kinder had summoned them so that he could press them into service as public defenders for indigent criminal defendants...
...still leaving opponents faked out of their flannels. On opening day, the A's choked off a Minnesota Twins rally with the ultimate schoolyard sucker-play-the old hidden-ball trick. Martin's merry men helped mount the season's first major brawl, a bench-emptier with Seattle during Oakland's record-setting eleventh win. There is even a shortstop, Mack "Shooty" Babitt, who sprints to first base when he draws a walk and, occasionally, slides...