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...dispute flared in the sever??h inning when Hoag sent a line shot into left-center. Everyone but plate umpire Bill Allard thought the ball bounced over the fence for a ground-rule double. Allard signaled home run which brought Harvard coach Loyal Park out of the dugout screaming. When the row died down. Hoag was on second base and the Bruins let victory slip away again...
...three of us pondered Smittie's night. College Week III in Bermuda; like College Weeks I and II, is a seven-inning ballgame, and old Smittie was back in the dugout with a big head over whoever his opponent was. He was sorry to hear we hadn't scored. But unlike Daytona, there isn't that heightened sense of male competition in Bermuda. Of course, Smittie figured he was paying dearly for such services, to the tune of $45/day, so he deserved everything he could get. "Jesus, I really had to get my rocks off," he reflected. "Now they...
...Casa Grande, Ariz., meanwhile, the Lotte Orions celebrated a 7-2 victory over the California Angels last week by touching off a string of firecrackers in the dugout. Ranked as the strongest hitting team in Japan, the Orions last season had five men in the lineup who hit 20 or more home runs. Unlike the Tokyo Giants, who pride themselves on being "pureblood Japanese," the Orions have two gaijin (foreigners) in their murderer's row-Arturo Lopez (21 home runs), a former utility player for the New York Yankees, and Black Outfielder George Altman (30 homers), late...
...came home to New York. His long, carefully shaped locks, embellished by a partial hairpiece, showed to advantage on the Merv Griffin Show, and Joe made his singing debut with a creditably crooned version of Around the World. But he admitted that his heart is still in the dugout. "I love playing in the Astrodome," said Pepitone. "It's the biggest hair dryer I've ever been under...
Bouton tells, for instance, of "beaver shooting," which in his words "can be anything from peering over the top of the dugout to look up dresses to hanging from the fire escape on the 20th floor of some hotel to look into a window. I've seen guys chin themselves on transoms, drill holes in doors, even shove mirrors under a door." When Bouton was with the Yankees, he recalls how Mickey Mantle used to lead hunting parties to the roof of the Shoreham Hotel in Washington, B.C. "One of the first big thrills I had with the Yankees...