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...book, entitled "The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History," Gould puts together a series of essays ranging from "flamingos that feed upside down" to "the extinction from baseball of the .400 hitter...
...They had great passes and could receive any ball," said UConn Coach Linda Gottlieb. "Their setter [Forman] is excellent. She made every set right to the hitter. I think it was just the experience factor and the problem with concentration...
Depending on the park, nine- or ten-man baseball was observed, and the lack of a designated hitter brought out the finest stuff in McNamara. "I knew where my neck was," he said, after surviving an especially second-guessable decision, "and my body might have been in the Charles River." When New York won games three and four in Boston, dispiriting 7-1 and 6-2 games with still not a single change of lead, the home advantage started to seem a curse, though not to Ron Darling. The unlucky loser of the series' first decision ran his streak...
...Jesse Orosco came out of the bullpen and got Rich Gedman on a line drive to second, struck out Dave Henderson and got pinch-hitter Don Baylor to ground out to short...
Hurst had retired 11 in a row and had allowedone hit when the Mets sent up pinch-hitter LeeMazzilli, who singled and scored the tying run inthe eighth inning of Game 6. Mazzilli singled withone out, and Wilson followed with a single thatsent Mazzilli to second...