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...even slighting sleep for the red-eye ESPN night games from the Coast. Eventually I found -- in extra innings, it is true -- seven baseball books that survived the toughest test of all: competing with the game itself. Each of these books is analogous to an opposite-field hitter; instead of trying to drive the ball up the middle, they offer glimpses of the game from odd angles and use the sport as a metaphor for something larger...
...found what may be a model role. This week the onetime Cincinnati Reds star, who is barred from baseball for gambling, will begin filming The Babe Ruth Story, an NBC made- for-TV movie. Rose will play Ty Cobb, the volatile Detroit outfielder who reigned as baseball's best hitter every year but one (1916) between 1907 and 1919. Talk about typecasting! Rose broke Cobb's long-standing record for most hits (4,191) in 1985 and went on to collect 4,256 before retiring in 1986; like Cobb, he had a reputation as a hell raiser on the field...
Designated hitter Peter Hoffman, who belted a solo home run in the fourth inning to give Dartmouth a 1-0 lead, then singled to left. That set the stage for Carey's two-run, game-winning single...
With all these aches and pains, Ryan's fate was predictable: he was carried from the field. But the only injury was to the Blue Jays; Ryan's joyous teammates hoisted him to their shoulders after he pitched his seventh no- hitter, a time-warp classic that even the self-effacing Texan described as "my most overpowering night." Only two Blue Jays reached first base on walks; only four hitters managed to loft fly balls to the outfield. The scorecard for the game looked like a bowl of Special K, the letter baseball uses to symbolize each of Ryan...
Just across 35th Street stands the forlorn hulk of the original 1910 Comiskey Park, with a gaping hole cut through the right-field stands. A mournful opening-day banner reads, SPEEDWAY WRECKING: THE HARDEST 'HITTER' OF ALL TIME. With these ghostly memories still in sight, how hard it is for the nostalgic baseball fan to come to peace with progress. Yet the truth must be acknowledged: the new Comiskey Park represents a hopeful beacon for the future of baseball. It is a talisman that the wonder of the game will survive this era of luxury sky boxes, insanely lucrative television...