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...Talil, as U.S. troops were first capturing it. These guys said they'd found an Iraqi bunker, and were about to call an artillery strike to take it out. I look through the binoculars, and although there's an anti-aircraft gun on top, the structure is the Mound of the Ziggurat - a step pyramid reputed to be the spot where Abraham went to sacrifice Isaac. The beginning of civilization, one of the oldest structures in the world. So we pleaded with them not to do it, and urged them to call the chaplain. Luckily the chaplain knew the Bible...
...whom would Casey, soul of the Series, be rooting this week? "Whoever was paying him," says Creamer. "I suspect that would be the Mets, still trotting him out at 110." They would prop him up on the mound, and the Old Professor would peer in at the Yankees bench. After a dramatic pause, he would flagrantly thumb his nose...
Televised baseball, especially in big games that are the sport's full carnival, offers an individualism of faces, closeups of intense privacy (pitchers thinking, scratching themselves, anguishing, waving off the sign, spitting, trying to deliver a ball very hard from mound to plate with precision, as if a neurosurgeon were hurling darts 60 feet down a hospital corridor at a patient's neocortex). The spectacle has something in common with a bullfight - matador on the mound, bull at the plate, multitudes eating and drinking and whooping in the stands in a tableau of casual, ceremonious pageantry...
...worthwhile to have a postmortem on one moment of notable idiocy that occurred early on, when the Yankee pitcher, Roger Clemens, delivered a pitch that shattered Mike Piazza's bat, the broken barrel of which came flying out toward the mound to be fielded by Clemens. Clemens caught the jagged piece of bat and threw it toward the first base line...
Japan's baseball team will need three days, or more, of Matsuzaka's magic on the mound if it is to have any chance of winning an Olympic medal in Sydney. Silver medalist to Cuba's gold in Atlanta in 1996, the Japanese team will include Matsuzaka and seven other big leaguers in these first Olympics where baseball professionals are allowed. At 19, the fastballer is now the top draw of the Seibu Lions in Japan's Pacific League. When he pitches, the 35,000-seat stadium in suburban Tokorozawa tends to fill up. Other nights, the stands are often...