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...same hazards apply to speed-reading. Yes, we are bedeviled each day by a mound of papers, and we need to have some way of getting swiftly at the vitals of letters or articles or presentations. But the habit of skimming is too easily carried over to creative reading. Few things are more rewarding than the way the mind can hover over a luminous paragraph or even a phrase, allowing it to light up the imagination. The way the mind transforms little markings on paper into images is one of the highest manifestations of human uniqueness...
...home runs since Mantle and Maris in '61. Dave Justice, toiling in Triple A, gets promoted to the haggard Atlanta Braves in mid-May and hits 28 home runs: out of nowhere, into orbit. The arms of half the Dodgers' pitchers fall off, but the slim, steely mound grace of rookie Ramon Martinez helps sustain Los Angeles in a last-gasp pennant race...
Scott Fletcher walked to start the Chicagoseventh and was forced at second on Guillen's buntback to the mound. Ivan Calderon singled andJohnson got an infield hit when second basemanReed managed to prevent his grounder from goingthrough the hole to right...
...reliever Jeff Reardon, who celebrated his 35th birthday on the mound less than two months after back surgery...
After about 10 minutes of Hargis' slapstick signs and Baxter's frantic head-shaking, home plate umpire Peter Funt, the host of Candid Camera, approached the mound. Smile, Bobby...