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...when he, a control-challenged junior-high screwball hurler, gave up his big-league dreams and "took up smoking and irony in self-defense." He must have outgrown the irony too--otherwise how could he describe with such tender eloquence a forgettable player, onetime New York Mets shortstop Tony Fernandez, taking batting practice, "laying each bunt down like a necktie on a bed." Hopping adroitly from decade to decade, backward and forward, Angell blows the dust off such near forgotten minor marvels as the switch-hitting Cleveland Indian Carlos Baerga crushing two home runs in the same inning from opposite...
...Staff writer Yailett Fernandez can be reached at yfernand@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Yailett Fernandez can be reached at yfernand@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Yailett Fernandez can be reached at yfernand@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Yailett Fernandez can be reached at yfernand@fas.harvard.edu...