Word: fungos
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...lightning from the musical heavens cuts through the sweltering heat and submerges the street in a blinding light. The intense energy genetically recombines all it touches, and when the dust has cleared, five young musicians who look like extras from Colors stand defiantly in a row. Thus was born Fungo Mungo...
...different one the next." Only Rose would understand that this applies to similes as well. Approaching 46, the Reds' player-manager had to leave himself off the winter roster in order to protect a younger man, like Pitcher Norm Charlton, whose finger Rose broke with the first fungo of the season...
...start ("It wasn't fun playing," Pete whispers, a little ashamed), the Phillies had found their way back to first place under new Manager Pat Corrales. In the drill, Pete played first base. Looking around, he had to laugh. Corrales and Coach Deron Johnson, who was wielding the fungo bat, are his old Cincinnati teammates; another coach, Dave Bristol, managed him there and in the minors; Mets Pitcher Pat Zachry, kibitzing near by, was a painfully lanky teen-age pitcher Rose remembers in one of those hand-me-down Reds uniforms that signify the minorest minor league...
...first game senior Paul McOsker relieved sore-shouldered starter Ron Stewart in the second inning, and the lanky lefty ("Hey, who put the uniform on the fungo?" was the razz line at Cornell) proceeded to hual his finest stint since he one-hit Princeton two years ago. McOsker brought his record to 3-1 for the year, yielding only two hits and three walks in six innings...
...game hijinx at chilly MIT were particularly spectacular yesterday. Shortstop Burke St. John demonstrated some juggling ability of Harvard Square kiosk quality, while lanky Steve Baloff's ability to balance a fungo bat on his nose is a gift that few others can claim. Yesterday's Box Score HARVARD AB R H RBI Pearce, 3b 3 0 0 0 Santos-Buch, cf 4 0 0 0 Bannish, cf 1 0 0 0 Stenhouse, If 4 1 2 1 Bingham, 1b 4 1 1 1 Peccerillo, rf 2 0 0 0 Bowles, pr 0 1 0 0 Blood...