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...participant, spectator and reporter, disappointment in sports is nothing new. So when I went online Sunday night and saw that Mike Mussina was taking a perfect game into the seventh inning, I barely flinched. After all, what were the chances that he could actually pull it off? The jaded part of me told me it wasn’t worth the worry. So I didn?...
Next up was Merloni, who had botched a grounder mere minutes before that could have resulted in an inning-ending double play instead of an eventual Yankee run. Merloni couldn’t atone for his blunder and struck out, giving Mussina his 13th K of the game and putting him within an out of perfection...
Looking at the facts, one could only agree with Mussina’s assessment. An unlikely villain, Everett entered his ninth inning at-bat 1-for-9 lifetime against Mussina and had struck out seven of those nine times...
...book opens with a detailed account of a typical first inning for the Stars, including three full pages on the at-bat of Moyshe, Noah's younger brother, who uses shoe polish to fake a beard. Panel after panel has him fouling away pitches, waiting for the right one, creating a metronomic visual rhythm as the tension builds. Sturm has figured out that a large part of baseball's appeal lies in its structure of little dramas making up the larger one, and he carries this through the entire book...
...night to watch the end of the first home game on TV with my father. My dad had been robbed of his destiny as a Dodger fan just as I had, having immigrated from Aruba a decade after the move. At one point during the bottom of the ninth inning, he turned to me and asked, “Couldn’t they have gotten us at least a Triple-A team?” I smiled; this was a typical New Yorker’s reaction. The absence of Dodgerdom hadn’t stunted Dad?...