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Last week the Brooklyn Dodgers faced the Cards again, and this time the pennant--and the Dodgers' none-too-healthy 4 1/2-game lead--was at stake. The Cards were fighting back, late and hard. In the second inning, Jackie Robinson was spiked again--this time by trigger-tempered Catcher Joe Garagiola...
...waiting would be strapped into the catapult while adjustments were made for wind, weather and any buildings recently constructed on the flight path. If all goes well, the student would then be flung over half of Cambridge to his or her destination, landing in a thirty-foot-wide catcher's mitt specially constructed near the other catapult. In addition to their regular duties, for the betterment of Quad-river relations, the catapult operators would be allowed to seize any river-dwelling student who is heard to say "You live in the Quad? I've never even been there before...
First base, Faith; second base, Hope; third base, Charity, and short stop, Love. Other players were given virtuous titles: pitcher, Jesus Christ; catcher, Holy Ghost; batter, the Devil...
...comes equipped with a mesh to put your tea leaves in--and a three-minute hourglass timer to make sure you steep the tea for just the right amount of time. If you desire a souvenir of your visit, you can choose to buy anything from a teapot drip catcher to mint-tea jelly...
...Leyland acquiesced. Even when the tying run came to the plate with two outs in the ninth, Leyland kept him in there, feeling Brown deserved to be on the field when the final out was made. When Chipper Jones hit into a force for that out, Brown and catcher Charles Johnson and then the whole team became one big, joyous school of fish...