Word: gloving
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...never been behind in a game. Some of its games have taken on the look of glorified target practice. A crowd shows up and the Harvard forwards pound away at a defenseless guy in pads standing in front of the net. Meanwhile, the Harvard goalies barely lift a glove or move a stick...
Other small delights dropped into the series like a bunch of Boston balloons or a New York fan floating in out of the sky. Also: Hernandez flinging his bat at a pitchout to save a run and maybe a game; Red Sox Batting Champion Wade Boggs compensating with his glove at third base until his bat finally stirred; Mets Leftfielder Mookie Wilson reeling under fly balls in the shadow of the great wall but always catching them at the last; and poor Buckner teetering everywhere. "When you got two feet killing you," said Buckner, bracing his wobbly ankles in high...
...finish gulping or sighing, the World Series was on. If the New York Mets and Boston Red Sox take most of this week to realize where they are, it is because playoffs can hang in the air as improbably as homers off the bat of Lenny Dykstra or the glove of Dave Henderson, and neither the National nor American leagues had ever seen such playoffs...
...Umpire Fred Brocklander's mistaken out call at first base forestalled a fourth. Houston's essential run was lost. Slumping Catcher Gary Carter eventually won that one in the twelfth inning with a flash single off flamboyant Reliever Charlie Kerfeld, who had given Carter the back of his glove and hand fielding an earlier zinger...
Come to Laurenland, the images whisper, where fantasy and finery go together like hand in well-stitched glove. Watch polo matches in Palm Beach, trim in a crested blazer and trousers of crisp linen. Sip cognac by the fireplace of a Sun Valley, chalet, snug under a brightly colored Navajo blanket and clad in a Nordic apres-ski sweater and wool twill slacks. Go on safari in Kenya wearing a bush jacket and khaki shorts that would do justice to Robert Redford in Out of Africa. Sip tea at London's Connaught Hotel, draped to perfection in a chalk-stripe...