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McGwire, just 1-for-13 in the Series, swung at a first-pitch fastball and popped it straight up to first baseman Tracy Woodson. Howell finished for a save in the same ballpark where fans constantly booed him last year when he pitched...
Dick Hughes replaced Willis but did little better. Cash greeted him with a first-pitch single, scoring the ninth run of the inning, and Willie Horton drove in number 10 before Hughes finally forced Northrup...
Equal Time? The week began with the President's traditional first-pitch opening of the baseball season, and even then the reporters had a new angle to write about. "Would you like to go to the ball game with me?" Kennedy asked a morning visitor, 17-year-old Richard Lopez of El Paso, the Boys' Clubs of America's "Boy of the Year." Lopez surely did, and was photographed with the President. "I felt 50 feet high," he reported...