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What about some of the youngsters who have been shining brilliantly all season long. All-star catcher Charles Johnson is without a doubt the best defensive catcher in the Major Leagues, and he even started swinging a hot bat in the second half of the season. Shortstop Edgar Renteria is a wall defensively and emerging as an excellent number two hitter...
...baseball's division series slumbered to their conclusions this weekend, the real drama was played out in Cleveland, this time in a game starring Sandy Alomar as The Natural. Down to their last four outs, Indians fans were preparing their "wait until next year" speeches when the Cleveland catcher quickly deposited Mariano Rivera's 2-0 fastball into the right field stands at Jacobs field. An inning later, Omar Vizquel singled in the winning run and stretched the series to a fifth and deciding game tonight...
Craig Biggio has won three straight Gold Gloves as the best defensive second baseman in the league. He has started for the National League in the last three All-Star games, and he's the only person ever to be both an All-Star catcher and second baseman...
When the President has been scheduled to throw out the first ball on opening day of the baseball season, for instance, I often wonder if he's tempted to put in some secret bullpen practice with a catcher whose discretion he could count on--Web Hubbell, maybe--just to reduce the chances that his first attempt to put one over the plate could panic the customers in the box seats behind third base. I wouldn't blame...
...chase scene after another, from apartments to hospitals to bridges to darkened theaters and finally to the dilapidated closed wing of a mental hospital. Jerry's apartment is one of the most intriguing settings in the movie. It is furnished with file cabinets, at least a dozen copies of Catcher in the Ryethat were found in the possession of at least two famous assassins, a poster of John Lennon and magazine clippings and sketches covering every inch of wall space. His refrigerator is filled with locked metal canisters of coffee and tapioca, whose combinations he conveniently forgets when Alice visits...