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When he's disengaged, the Texas Governor looks as if he's scrambling around inside his suit. That was true during the primary season's debates, but on the subject of baseball he is at his most confident--part team owner and part Little Leaguer ready to wear his hat backward. In the relaxed milieu of the campaign plane, Bush can seem like any bench jockey spitting out nicknames and wisecracks. He cultivated this part of his personality as a high school and college player as much as in the Yale frat house. It can even inspire a kind...
BOSTON--The Harvard baseball team got the opportunity yesterday to do something every Little Leaguer dreams about when it took the field at Fenway Park for the Beanpot consolation game...
...Little Leaguer's impulse to imitate led naturally to Joe DiMaggio, a Yankee with whom I found it easy to identify. Or at least as easy as it can be for a black kid from Brooklyn to identify with a white man playing for the white flag-bearer of a segregated sport...
...being a professional baseball player. I once mentioned something to my father about it, and he said, "Ain't no colored ballplayers." There were the Negro Leagues, of course, where the Dodgers discovered Jackie, but my mother, like most, would rather her son be a schoolteacher than a Negro Leaguer. All that changed when Jackie put on No. 42 and started stealing bases in a Brooklyn uniform...
...With one out, Mager waited out Breslow, working a walk, then harassed Breslow into an errant pickoff throw and moved over to third. Keck tripled him home with yet another opposite-field base hit, and scored himself when Huling blooped a Texas Leaguer over the third-base...