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Despite this only relative weakness on the mound, the Giants had no trouble with Los Angeles in the weekend series, although the Dodgers still lead in the season's series, 8 to 6. The return of old reliable Billy Pierce, demonstrated in his victory over L.A. Saturday, could boost San Francisco over the top. The two teams meet in Los Angeles for a final four-game series in September that will probably be decisive...
There is not a single unintelligible sentence in all fifteen chapters, except those intentionally quoted from other sources. Again and again Mound myself underlining sentences that were especially felicitous or colorful in phrasing; and one could extract quite a collection of aphorisms and epigrams. The writing is always fresh and often witty; it is never stuffy or flippant. And one can only assume that these words describe the author himself...
...into a game. Says the University of Florida's Dr. Byron G. Brogdon, who has been compiling case histories for the past three years: "The findings suggest that Little Leaguers (ages nine to twelve) and Pony Leaguers (ages 13 to 14) are placed on a pitcher's mound, inspired to maximum efforts by the adulation of their contemporaries and the exhortations of their often vicariously ambitious parents, at the worst possible time in their lives...
...Huskies weren't through, though. Ed Brady walked, and then Jerry Varnum hit a towering foul ball almost directly above the plate. Yarbro came off the mound and looked at it. Phil Bernstein started in from first and decided against it, as he had to hold the runner. Mike Drummey at third made the same decision. Catcher Dick Dehl circled under the ball determinedly. The ball, however, dropped foul in front of him, dribbled fair, and then rolled foul, where Diehl pounced...
Then in the seventh Bobby St. George doubled and Fred Karp singled him home. Drummey attempted a squeeze bunt but got to first when Varnum died around with his bunt down the third base line. Bartoiet singled to score Karp, and Huskle coach Tinker Connelly released Mullin from further mound duties...