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Fred Lynn captures peoples' imagination in a way that makes history before it happens. Lynn, a rookie centerfielder fresh up from a quick but unbrilliant career with Pawtucket, is having a sensational, sensational year. He is leading the league in RBIs and leading the majors in run production--RBIs plus runs, minus the homers, which are duplicates. He is fourth in homers and number two in batting average, behind Rod Carew--which is like running second to Hermes. He handles centerfield like a fish in water and he runs the bases like a pro. In late June he knocked...
...Crimson posted five more runs in the sixth to put the game out of reach. Leon Goetz followed a Sciolla double with a drive that appeared to clear the centerfield fence. The umpire ruled, however, that the ball had gone through the fence, not ever it, and Goetz scored instead on Driscoll's single. A Williams home run to left and a Durso double brought in the final Crimson runs...
...death blow was delivered quickly, and shockingly, by centerfielder Brandt. After Ted Alfere bounced a single under third-baseman Fran Cronin's glove and Rick Krieger followed with a base hit to center, Brandt stopped up to the plate and deposited Holt's first pitch over the centerfield fence...
Powell had three hits, and his second one was a long home run over the centerfield fence in the fourth inning that tied the game, 3-3. Then powell sent the Indians ahead in the sixth inning when he doubled to the right field corner scoring George Hendrick...
...baseball fans it is a great moment in history-like the Pilgrims' landing at Plymouth Rock or King John's signing the Magna Carta. There stands Babe Ruth with two strikes on him, gorilla-chested, monkey-faced, pipestem-legged, pointing imperiously to deep centerfield. It is the 1932 World Series against Chicago in Wrigley Field, and when Cub Pitcher Charlie Root fires the ball, the Babe hits a vast home run to the very spot, winning the ball game. Unfortunately, things did not happen quite that way. But, as Robert Creamer demonstrates again and again in this book...