Word: caged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although it doesn't look like Harvard will come up to the plate to face Clemens or Lee Smith this year, the week of spring training will certainly help the Crimson, which has been practicing inside Briggs Cage over the last few weeks...
...could they ever find anything better than this?" says Detroit Manager Sparky Anderson, who is sitting outside an enclosed batting cage enjoying the sound of ash and cowhide and the sight of veterans Darrell Evans and Alan Trammell gathering scattered baseballs, like mushrooms, to reload Iron Mike. The pitching machine is run by Coach Billy Consolo, Anderson's best childhood friend, the boy who 40 years ago in Los Angeles helped him steal all of Trumpeter Harry James' baseball equipment...
...Billy," the manager calls conspiratorially into the cage, "did Harry James have equipment...
...wonderful performance as Tom, the highlight of which is when Amanda confronts Tom about his job at the warehouse. Hainsworth exercises amazing control as he begins his speech in a conversational tone and then gradually builds the emotion in his voice to a powerhouse level which reverberates through the Cage and reduces the audience to silent admiration. In this one speech he is able to communicate his raging inner conflict between his loyalties to his mother and to his own desires...
...small space in the Cage and the illusion themes that run throughout the play, Giani's choice to have the actors mime objects like the telephone, the door and utensils is a good one. All of the cast members, however, need a little practice miming. Sometimes the slamming of the door or the use of forks at dinner do not seem quite realistic...