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...Finley's ideas are not brash enough, he peddles them with a pitchman's flair. When he wanted to press for adoption of the orange ball at one league meeting, he showed up wearing a traffic cop's phosphorescent orange glove. Every time he wanted to talk, he waved the glowing glove over his head...
...sports section. Sure, Peter Gammons writes good baseball stories for the Globe, but nobody can beat the Times's Jim Murray, who wrote in 1966, after Willie Davis made two errors in one inning of a World Series game, that it was such an incredible fact that "his glove ought to be bronzed--if it isn't already...
...style. Roger Angell of the New Yorker has called him "the archeologist" (because he picks up the ball and looks are it as if it were a fossil before he lets fly), and an early stage in his complex motion is a rhythmic shaking of the ball, in glove, shoving it down his body in an erotic dance. Tiant's family lives in Cuba, and on a recent visit George McGovern fixed it up with Fidel so that they could come and watch him pitch later in the season...
...lack the knack of bobbing and weaving in rhythm with other minds and hearts. Szeryng, Fournier and Rubinstein rank high among the successful exceptions to this individualistic rule. In these trios, each player retains his own particular musical fist yet manages to fit it into his neighbor's glove. In perfect harmony, they play as if they were giving birth to true Schubertian miracles-which indeed they...
...quite. Two weeks ago, the disciplinary board of the Washington, D.C., bar recommended that Kleindienst be suspended for one year. Last week it released its confidential findings and conclusions. They shred Kleindienst's defense and condemn by implication the kid-glove kindness that was shown...