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...Captains Chris Carr and Fromholz shared pitching duties for the Crimson last year, but freshman Jen Kimball, Jana Meader and Liz Walker will also see time on the mound this season...
Third inning. He storms to the mound, throws his arms out to the side, gears up for delivery. Checks out the fans, waiting for the right moment. Now he winds up, and now the pitch. The audience gasps as the thing soars. It hits the wall...
...upon the mound and tell sad stories of the death of NETWORK BASEBALL. CBS, the tale begins, spent a whopping $1 billion for the right to telecast major league games for four years. Now, after sustaining huge losses from last year's abbreviated postseason, the network seems to wish the sport would just go away. Regular-season telecasts have been reduced to a meager handful. Pregame shows during the league championship series were entirely eliminated, to minimize the ratings damage. The games themselves have featured such distractions as Andrea Joyce and Lesley Visser roaming the stands for human-interest angles...
...need not pay too much attention to other candidates. Irish legend has it that St. Brendan and some monks reached the New World in a coracle, and one particularly choice theory holds that a Cherokee inscription in a burial mound at Bat Creek in Tennessee, found in 1889, was actually in Hebrew, left by Jewish refugees fleeing Roman persecution in the 2nd century. Others hold out for Japanese fishermen blown off across the Pacific in 3000 B.C., and (most recently) an unknown Spanish mariner who supposedly reached the Bahamas in the 15th century, struggled back across the Atlantic and entrusted...
...strangest letter we received was from some kid who sent us--believe it--his wart. At the end of a long, complicated letter which rambled on for two pages, I discovered under a large mound of scotch tape, what was unmistakably a human wart. The mailer's effort, however misguided and anal retentive, was semi-successful. His idea did, that is, make it out of the dead letter box--and right into a medical waste disposal basket...