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...late in the ball game, and the Boston Red Sox are clinging to a one-run lead. But the Red Sox pitcher is tiring fast. He throws. Ball one. Another pitch, another ball - and another. The murmur starts in the box seats behind the Boston dugout. Swiftly it spreads through the grandstand and bleachers, picking up cadence, cresting in volume, until all Fenway Park is chanting in unison: "We want The Monster! We want The Monster! We want The Monster!" Manager Johnny Pesky obediently trots out and lifts one hand high above his head, the signal that means: "Send...
Changeless Isolation. In the half-century since Schweitzer came to Lambaréné with his wife Hélène and performed his first operation in a converted hen house, the mission has expanded but otherwise changed little. At the river landing there are only pirogues, crude dugout canoes, the one type of river ambulance Schweitzer will use. ("Brancardier! Brancardier!" [stretcher bearer] the oarsmen cry when they arrive with an emergency.) The hospital compound is without telephone, running water or refrigeration, has electricity only in the main building, which houses the tiny, antiquated operating theater. Sterilization is carried...
Twist in the Dugout. Wagner is the Angels' clowning glory. He heckles opposing players "unconsciously" (he means unmercifully), dances the twist in the dugout, and gleefully polices the "Outhouse"-the section in the back of the team bus reserved for goof-offs after each Angel game. Wagner's credentials are perfect for the job. Part Negro, part Cherokee Indian, he grew up in Detroit, and decided early that the way to fun and fortune was to be afootball star. But, alas, at Alabama's Tuskegee Institute he learned that college football players do not always get paid...
...album. Mulligan aficionados will be astonished to hear a piano in the quartet behind him-a direct violation of Mulligan's long boycott of pianists. But the man playing it here is Tommy Flanagan, and keeping Flanagan off a record is like keeping Willie Mays in the dugout. Alec Dorsey's congo drumming is a nuisance...
...average; a few weeks ago, he demolished the New York Yankees single-handed with a pair of home runs. Now that he has won All-Star honors in his first full year, Rich Rollins might be expected to relax and enjoy his stardom. But he still sits in the dugout, frowning through the glasses and writing notes on scraps of paper. "There's always somebody waiting to take your place," he says grimly. "Baseball is the most insecure profession I know...