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...Right now the team's playing good defense because I'm not there," injured third baseman Butch Hobson said. Hobson, who leads the league in errors, said last weekend he could no longer throw, due to the painful bone chips in his right elbow. Hobson slumped on his chair in the culbhouse for an hour, gazing at a hunting magazine. He said dejectedly, "There are no errors 'cause I'm not there, but that's the way it's gotta be when you get down to the nitty gritty...
...last month, and is still playing with it taped. Dwight Evans was hit by a pitch and gets dizzy chasing fly balls. Add to that Catcher Carlton Fisk's broken rib, First Baseman George Scott's battered right middle finger. Third Baseman Butch Hobson's injured elbow and Centerfielder Fred Lynn's pulled stomach muscle, and you get a team that might be better off playing softball for Massachusetts General Hospital. Only this season's sensation, Jim Rice, has remained healthy...
...this traveler with "Flying the Crowded Skies" [Aug. 14]. As a project evaluator for the Federal Government, I spent five weeks during June and July plying the heavens on various airlines. After logging about 9,200 as-the-crow-flies miles, eating God knows what with someone's elbow stuck in my ear and being kicked by an unruly child on the other side, one might think I would never want to fly again. But give me a few weeks to adjust my wobbly knees and popping ears to terrestrial life, and I'll be winging...
...Institute of Sports Medicine and Athletic Trauma in New York City: "The opponent slams the ball and our Saturday's hero catches it in the eye." Or gets to eat what Braden calls "a fuzz sandwich." The sport's most common ailment, of course, is tennis elbow. A player's forearm muscles may not be strong enough to hold or control the racket correctly, resulting in an improper swing. Small rips or microtears develop in the tendons of the forearm muscles near the elbow, and chronic inflammation ensues...
...service. There will be first class for expense-account executives and wealthy tourists, in some cases with stretch-out beds like Japan Air Lines has begun to offer for a $120 surcharge on its San Francisco-Tokyo flight. There will be second class, with hot meals and some elbow room. And there will be tightly packed sardine class?cold meals, close seating, cheap fares...