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...needs a stock portfolio when you've got baseball memorabilia? Mark McGwire's 70th home-run ball (not even the one that broke Ruth's record) set its own record at auction last week. But don't bet the farm on your signed Hank Aaron mitt yet. It's a steep drop to the next nine highest prices paid for sports memorabilia at public auction...
Torre is a picture of calm and brooding. His tired brown eyes seem to darken as a game progresses. One glimpses him in the dugout with pitching coach Mel Stottlemyre and general adviser Don Zimmer, whose Cabbage Patch grandfather face is all of baseball: part catcher's mitt, part kid. This trio forms a living argument for retaining the custom of dressing coaches and managers in players' uniforms. They confer and fret like 12-year-olds. How Torre managed to create a sum greater than its parts was evident in a small way in the fifth Cleveland game. After...
Tomorrow Harvard will start sophomore Rich Linden (1-0, 3.60 ERA), who is putting his football cleats on hiatus this spring in favor of a baseball mitt. Though he's coming off a rocky start against Boston College (B.C.), in which he yielded five runs on nine hits in four and one-third innings, Linden has been effective in five appearances this season...
...sense of urgency. Too often, a young umpire will try to make a call before a play has developed, assuming a sequence of action that eventually fails to unfold. The runner may beat the throw, but will he touch the base? The fielder may coax the ball into his mitt, but will it stay there? The ball may beat the runner, but does...
...would be strapped into the catapult while adjustments were made for wind, weather and any buildings recently constructed on the flight path. If all goes well, the student would then be flung over half of Cambridge to his or her destination, landing in a thirty-foot-wide catcher's mitt specially constructed near the other catapult. In addition to their regular duties, for the betterment of Quad-river relations, the catapult operators would be allowed to seize any river-dwelling student who is heard to say "You live in the Quad? I've never even been there before...