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...throw from a considerably different perspective from that offered by television. You can see the whole trajectory, watch the ball go all the way to its destination, without the distraction of a change of cameras for a close-up of the play at the plate. So Fred Lynn's throw sailed home, seemed to hesitate at its apogee, and landed in Carlton Fisk's fat glove about a foot above the plate. The Detroit baserunner--whoever he was--never had a chance...
When the umpire called the play at home, Lynn jumped in the air with an exuberant wave of his arm, not so much in triumph as in pure joy. Fred Lynn was having...
...Lynn was obviously never taught to play baseball the way he does, because he lives by an ethereal instinct on the field. In center, he moves with the ball, not simply to it or at it. At the plate, his swing has nothing unnatural about it; the stroke is so patently correct, that others are no doubt compelled to try to copy it: the high left elbow, the perfect isoceles triangle of arms and chest at the moment of contact, and the long and level follow-through. But no one could imitate it, at least not exactly, because...
BOSTON--The Boston Red Sox stars, outfielder Fred Lynn and catcher Carlton Fish, have filed as free agents, the Boston Globe reported yesterday...
Leonard Bernstein insisted that he was entirely too young for this sort of award. "What do they mean by 'lifetime achievement?' " asked the 62-year-old composer-conductor. "I'm just beginning." Onetime Stage Queen Lynn Fontanne had no such quibble; she turned 93 on the evening she joined Bernstein, Actor James Cagney, 81, Choreographer Agnes de Mille, 71, and Soprano Leontyne Price, 53, in receiving a coveted Kennedy Center honor for career achievement in the performing arts. At weekend-long festivities that included a musical tribute at the Kennedy Center, star-struck Washingtonians clustered around such...