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Three seats, upper deck but right behind home plate (and sheltered from the rain), for me, my little brother, and my friend Matt. Matt was late getting to our rendezvous point at the train station, but no matter--we arrived two minutes after the 12:35 matinee was scheduled to begin, only to find the tarpaulin covering the field and security guards patrolling the dugout for lack of players...
...Braves won, I think by a final of 4-2, with McGriff or maybe Justice belting a two-run shot to open the scoring in the sixth. Matt left early knowing that Atlanta's lead was almost safe, and after we moved to the lower deck for the final two innings, my brother actually had his hands on a foul shot of his own before it was wrenched away by stronger muscles. We traded quips about our terrible bullpen, even though McMichael actually notched a save for us, and the Braves salvaged something from the series. But all I could...
...almost no action or dialogue in present time. What the author offers is Broderick, onstage alone, scratching his head and relating what he has learned from a phone call or an old police report. Blue had a husband named Teddy who got stoned and fell out of the second deck at Tiger Stadium on their wedding afternoon. Somebody else fell or was pushed from a hotel window, landing on a mounted policeman, killing the policeman and his horse. Good stuff but old stuff, not dramatized but simply retold...
...Giants that looks like it went into orbit. Roll that tape! Is this ball juiced or what? With 44 taters, the Mattmeister has now moved ahead of Roger Maris' record pace. But the big news was in Cleveland, where Albert Belle crushed two homers, including this titanic upper-deck shot, to lead the Tribe to a 9-3 victory over the Brewers. For the first time since 1954, it's the -- yes! -- first-place Indians. Talk about a real-life Field of Dreams. It don't get any better than this...
...third fail to graduate from high school. ADHD kids are also prone to accidents, says neurologist Roseman. "These are the kids I'm going to see in the emergency room this summer. They rode their bicycle right into the street and didn't look. They jumped off the deck and forgot it was high...