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...course, had to overcome the handicap of being unable to communicate with his fellow fielders. Many of his teammates learned sign language. But the men who played alongside him, for example Tommy Leach during the 1899 season and Hall of Famer Wahoo Sam Crawford during 1902, listened for a sort of throaty squeak he made when calling for a ball...
...Jewish challenger, Sharman. James Daley, (Jon Terry) unloved and unsuccessful, is embittered with his job as a junior high school principal, and regards himself as a man of "unfulfilled potential." James feels he has been held back by his obligations to his recently-deceased father and Tom (William Leach) his alcoholic brother. And through it all is the coach (Alan Gifford), spouting maxims, insisting that they must hang tough with each other; nothing has changed in 20 years, it is still us against them. "Beat that Jew, Beat that Jew," sneers Tom, "Go Gentiles...
...part of Tom, the alcoholic, can only be convincing when the entire play is working. He is the most poorly developed character, the one we know the least about; he circles around the action making caustic comments without permitting anyone to know him. William Leach fills the bill competently although his final breakdown is incomprehensible to us, having been given no previous background about his character. Leach does not handle this weakness in Miller's script very well; and apparently he too failed to find the motivation for his character's collapse...
Cole Stevens as the mayor does not have Leach's excuse; George's development is clearly delineated in the play's action. With little subtlety, Stevens lapses into an Outer Limits-like trance which is supposed to resemble a nervous collapse, but just looks plain silly...
Fury mounting above his terror, Leach...stretched himself in a lunge in the Italian manner, the whole body parallel with the ground and supported...upon his left hand. He sent his point ripping upward under de Bernis'guard. But de Bernis...passed his sword from side to side through the captain's extended body. Standing over Tom Leach as he lay coughing out his evil life upon the sands, Monsieur de Bernis ruefully shook his head...