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...piping screams and whistles of the Fenway fans brought Bobby's consciousness back, but he couldn't figure out what the hell he was doing with a rosin bag in his hand. Don Zimmer was walking out of the dugout towards him, and Carlton Fisk trotted up to the mound...
...said that I had seen dogs eating people on the roads. He said that was impossible. But there I had him. I had asked Harrison Forman to accompany me to Chiang's office, for he had photographs of famine conditions. His pictures clearly showed dogs standing over dugout corpses. The Generalissimo's knee began to jiggle slightly, in a nervous tic. He took out his little pad and brush pen and began to make notes. He asked for names of officials; he wanted more names; he wanted us to make a full report to him, leaving...
...Butch Hobson's catch of a foul ball for the first out in the ninth summed up the Red Sox' play during the homestand better than any rally or one-two-three inning. Hobson snagged the foul pop while simultaneously running down the steps of the Oriole dugout, and eventually wound up somewhere near the coldcut platter in the Baltimore clubhouse. When he finally came back on to the playing field the ovation was the last and loudest from the throng that seems amazed but not surprised at anything this club does nowadays...
...also the year the centerfielder Fred Lynn became the first rookie MVP in baseball history, hitting .331 with 105 RBIS. Jim Rice's remarkable season had been eclipsed. It finished with a severe hand injury. The also-ran watched the play-offs and World Series from the dugout...
When the Blue Hens took the field in the top of the seventh, though, homeplate umpire Joe Driscoll raised his hands and sent both nines scurrying for the dugout. Despite the seven-plus hour wait, there was to be no more baseball in Holyoke Wednesday...