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Despite Musselman's great finish and Swift's 17 strikeouts, neither had anything to do with the outcome. A mixture of rain and darkness stopped the game at 7:26 p.m. after 9 1/2 innings of rugged baseball. Neither coach was happy.
The wind howled in the darkness as they went to the meeting. It was just before 4 a.m. on June 5,1944, and the rain slashed at them "in horizontal streaks," Dwight Eisenhower recalled later. The commanders of Operation Overlord were gathering around the fireplace in the library of Southwick...
As the long line of twin-engine C-47s began taking off at seven-second intervals from Welford shortly after 10 p.m., Eisenhower stood there watching, his hands sunk deep in his pockets. He went on watching until the last plane circled into the darkness overhead. A correspondent standing near...
All night long the scattered paratroopers worked to re-establish contact, snapping cricket noisemakers to locate each other. (Most of their radios had been lost, along with 60% of their other supplies.) Sometimes the cricket sound drew German gunfire, but more often it brought lonely stragglers together into makeshift units...
Besides Hobbs' paternal coach and his affectionate teamates are the not-so-nice characters--the owner of the Knights, the nefarious "Judge" (Robert Prosky) who, like a bat, prefers darkness to light. There is also the spooky bookie, Darren McGavin, who gazes at the golden-boy Hobbs with his glass...