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...year," he said, "of a few too many shots, and a few too many pills. I was walking around sick to my stomach; I was half high on the mound...
Normally buried beneath a mound of pencil shavings and paper clips in the recesses of a desk drawer, the little black and white pamphlet has furnished a Harvard composer with the storyline for a suitably baroque oratorio...
...favorite baseball player, St. Louis Cardinals Outfielder Terry Moore, and she played on the tennis team at Slippery Rock State Teachers College. Terry came on early and strong. He won two letters at Butler High in basketball. He pitched a no-hitter the first time he took the mound for the baseball team. He broke his brother's school high-jump record on his first try. And the fellow who really raised Terry's competitive hackles was a football quarterback from just down the pike in Beaver Falls, Pa., named Joe Willie Namath...
...folklore. Pop-psych even appears on the sports page, as when a feature writer for New York's new World Journal Tribune gets a psychiatrist to describe baseball as a ritual performed in a crib (the diamond) and dominated by an elevated father figure (the pitcher on his mound...
Left-hander Dave McNally (13-6) will be on the mound for the Baltimore Orioles when the World Series opens Wednesday in Los Angeles. The Dodgers will probably pitch Don Drysdale (13-16), resting ace Sandy Koufax's arm for Thursday's game...