Word: outfielder
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...Outfield of Dreams...
Winning one inconsequential playoff game in one of thousands of Little Leagues can't compare with winning the World Series. Or can it? For Alex, Ari, Billy, Bo, Chaz, Frankie, Jeff, Jon, Joe, Mark, Sam and Zach, it can. One big yellow flower bloomed in the outfield that day. Daisy? Daffodil? It certainly wasn't a dandelion. Let's hope it's a perennial, even if only in their memory...
...long fly to right centerfield. I thought for sure it was going to fall in for the game-winning hit. But wait. Intersecting with the ball was a flash of yellow--our rightfielder. He caught it. He held onto it. In the next moment, he was engulfed in the outfield by his teammates...
...added their second tally in the bottom of the fourth on another misplaced ball in the outfield. Scott followed a Carlton Fisk single with an opposite-field liner to right, which Reggie Jackson decided to play leapfrog with, letting the ball bound off his glove and over his head. Fisk cruised home, and with starter Luis Tiant mowing down Yankees right and left, the Sox 2-0 lead looked strong...
DIED. RICHIE ASHBURN, 70, a.k.a. Whitey, wisecracking baseball Hall of Famer who flayed the competition at the bat and on the mike; of a heart attack; in New York City. A Philly Whiz Kid in the 1950s, Ashburn was a sight in the outfield--a blond streak of pure energy. He won two batting titles, tied a major league record in putouts and later, as a Philadelphia commentator, set another in putdowns as he groused at umpires in his broad Nebraska twang...