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...football and basketball, say, Gale Sayers' and Elgin Baylor's full splendor may be inferred from a single move. But a rooftop homer might have sprung from anyone who ever hit a home run, or from Henry Aaron, who hit 755; and while making one swan dive in the outfield, even Tommie Agee or Ron Swoboda of the Mets is the equivalent of the Giants' Willie Mays. Baseball players plainly cannot be known at a glance. "Every player, good or bad, at one time or other has played like a Hall of Famer and a Hall of Shamer." This...
...grudgingly at 84, he served Rose as a Cobb historian and utility Merlin. Having been a pallbearer for Babe Ruth, Hoyt was a certified carrier of legends. In retelling tales of Cobb, Rose animatedly acts them out, clapping the dirt off his thighs just so, snatching up particles of outfield grass in the pristine signal that Player-Manager Cobb had for a knockdown pitch...
...this case, the pitcher in whose cause he hit that home run, twice-traded but miraculously redone Lefthander John Tudor, 31. A tip from an old high school teammate is the delightful explanation for his resurrection from journeyman to 21-game winner, though the expanse of the Busch Stadium outfield, not to mention the outfielders themselves, must have had something to do with it. No matter how splendidly he pitches, Tudor seems to have difficulty enjoying it. While Landrum kept singing, "Boy, you should have seen the dugout vibrating; something was in the Cards," Tudor kept yawning, "It's just...
...Terriers widened their advantage in the bottom of the fourth at the expense of McAteer. She surrendered seven hits and five runs (three earned) in 1 1/3 innings of work, as the BU batters dumped blooper after blooper into the shallow outfield for base hits...
...Offensively we were trying to make things happen,” Allard said. “But we couldn’t string hits together. Somebody’s got to step up and get a big hit, drive the ball to the outfield...