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...rainout today was not a total loss for the team as practice was held indoors. The session lasted for more than an hour as fundamentals such as base-running, infield work, and cutoffs from the outfield were stressed. The squad also took an hour of batting practice...
...didn't need any help committing errors as the Eagles made many careless mistakes. The right side of the infield hesitated on every grounder beyond their immediate reach and created several cheap hits...
Park has his entire infield returning intact this spring. Behind the plate is co-captain Varney who has been drafted every year in the pro-baseball draft and is presently the number one selection of the Atlanta Braves...
...candidate, and so probably would not have been inspired had Moses appeared to reveal an Eleventh Commandment. When our guest threw it open to questions, we lobbed up fat, soft and non-curving batting practice offerings. Mailer, reading them as clever change-ups, lunged, missed, or popped to the infield. "What the hell," he complained, "I thought you Nieman Fellows were tough." One was reminded of a 300 hitter who, going 0-for-5 on a given night, charges the opposing pitcher with dealing in junkstuff: Mailer wanted a high, hard one he could rip over the Nieman fence. Nobody...
...Race at Ontario, Calif. The $50,000 purse went to the Motion Picture and Television Relief Fund, and stars of all styles turned out to draw the crowds. Dan Gurney and Poncho Gonzalez sprinted into the lead, lost it, and then regained it by cutting up-and across the infield-thoroughly disqualifying themselves. Second behind Smothers and his partner Bobby Unser came Astronaut Pete Conrad and Mario Andretti. Despite a sprained ankle, Paul Newman leadfooted it out of the pits so furiously that he tore up his car's transmission. But the whole race was so casual that...