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Sure, there were a lot of good moments. It's funny, but whenever I think about the days when baseball was THE SPORT, so many details pop up. Like the smell of Glovolium, this magical oily-like substance that I used to rub on my Carlton Fisk catcher's mitt and then on my Jim LeFevebre (whoever he was) infielder's glove every day in February. I really don't know what the Glovolium did to my gloves; I just thought every major leaguer...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Little League Moments and Fears | 10/24/1989 | See Source »

...World Series, of course, was the pinnacleof my spectatorial career. Mookie hit The GroundBall, Buckner misplayed it into the history books,Jesse O threw his mitt on to the front page ofevery New York tabloid and the Mets piled on tothe mound for a drunken champagne celebration thatlasted hours...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: The Mets | 10/5/1989 | See Source »

...Abbott has pitched five innings, allowing three hits and one run, striking out six (including A's terror Jose Canseco). One double-play ball got bollixed in his mitt, but he is under way. "You do wonder," he says, "if you're going to be the guy who was billed to make it, who never did, or if you're going to look back someday and say, 'This is where it all began.' But I've always dreamed, 'What if this happens,' and it always has. I've been lucky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Dreaming The Big Dreams | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

Yesterday afternoon at Soldiers Field, the Harvard softball team proved that hitting slumps can affect others parts of the game as fast as a Roger Clemens' high-riser goes from fist to mitt. The host Crimson (5-6 overall, 1-3 Ivy) dropped two games, 7-2, 7-1, to the visitors from Boston College (12-3). Harvard has now lost five of its last six games...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: B.C. Batters Crimson Batswomen; Harvard Loses Fifth of Last Six | 4/15/1988 | See Source »

Philadelphia's Kevin Gross was obliged to stand mute after an umpire came out to the mound last week and found sandpaper glued into the pocket of his mitt. Unless Gross was building a dollhouse for his daughter between innings, he was caught. Sounding like a dazed mountain climber, the Phillies' pitcher kept mumbling, "It was just there." His embarrassment was so acute that Gross at first shushed the players' union (as opposed to the carpenters' union) when it came to his defense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Batty Balls: Unkindest Cuts of all | 8/24/1987 | See Source »

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