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...Crimson forward Lane MacDonald retalliated nine seconds later with a smash from 15 feet out that eluded the outstretched mitt of Bruin goalie Bob Naegele and settled into right-hand corner of the Brown cage...
...drops his long jaw and howls at the blunders, drawing happy curses all around. Wimp does not fairly describe his 5-ft. 11- in., 170-lb. appearance in this bulky company, but it comes to mind. Almost every shot Gretzky takes, Officer Whitney snares in his first-baseman's mitt, an astonishment that the goalie explains later with a chagrined smile: "I didn't even see some of them. He was aiming for my glove...
...last time you saw a casually tossed cigarette butt snared by a youthful groundsman before it hit the sod? "My job is to keep this area clean," he said, walking away with the dirty object in the empty yogurt cup he had used as catcher's mitt...
...MIDWESTERN wheatfield, a small sandy-haired boy plays baseball with his father. Reaching into the air to catch a fly ball, he disappears into the rippling sunflecked wheat, emerging victoriously with the ball in his mitt. This visual image opens director Barry Levinson's new film, The Natural, and initiates the almost mythical tale of one man's legendary baseball career...
Wearing an orchid corsage the size of a catcher's mitt, the stooped honoree attended the whole symposium, a taxing thing when you consider the hard slogging certain scholars can subject an audience to. "I just feel like, well, it's all for me, and it would be rude to miss one of the speakers," she said early on. "I can just hear my mother saying, 'Girl, you're getting a little too much attention,' " she said toward...