Word: incaviglia
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...biker types and overfed beef this side of Meat Loaf. In this high-priced age of media sports, a team has to have sex appeal, charisma and watchability, and the Phillies fill the bill. If the phrase ''winning ugly'' had a face, it would belong to left fielder Pete Incaviglia, who thunders toward a pop fly and doesn't catch it so much as consume it. If ugly had an attitude, it would belong to center fielder and team firebrand Lenny (''Nails'') Dykstra, the Dead End Kid with an endless muddy stream of epithets and tobacco juice...
It’s a sunny Thursday afternoon in Cambridge, and the Harvard JV baseball team is battling UMass. I’m sitting in the dugout, hoping I’ll be called upon to pitch, when I overhear a reference to Pete Incaviglia, a semi-obscure Major League outfielder from the eighties and nineties...