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...lifts one hand high above his head, the signal that means: "Send in the Big Guy." In the Red Sox bullpen, Dick Radatz slips on a jacket, grabs his glove, steps out the gate and hops aboard a little red electric cart for the trip to the mound...
...world turns a deeper shade of black. Once his people were hopefully waiting for Godot; later they crouched in garbage cans in Endgame; Krapp was moribund while listening to his last tape; then in Happy Days, the female lead kept sinking deeper and deeper into a mound. Now Beckett's characters have gone all the way to hell in a play called Play, which has just opened in West Germany...
Meanwhile, the former Little League pitcher has moved off the mound to practice as a first baseman. Like one-armed players, he catches the ball with his gloved left hand, then quickly drops glove and ball, picks up the ball and throws it with the same hand...
...second inning at Milwaukee's County Stadium, and the old man on the mound stared coldly at the old man in the batter's box-the Braves' Warren Spahn, 42, baseball's dean of pitchers, against the St. Louis Cardinals' Stan Musial, 42, who had just added Babe Ruth's extra-base hit record to the 54 other marks he holds or shares. Spahn wound up and threw. Crack! Thunk! Oof! A screaming line drive hit Spahn squarely in the belly. He staggered and fell. Somehow he picked up the ball and threw Musial...
...White Sox, too, look like a respectable ball club, but whether their mound staff can hold up for an entire summer is an open question. Behind Ray Herbert the Sox have only demonstrated mediocrities like Johnny Buzhardt and Joel Horlen, who may not be able to hold their pace...