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CATCHING: Joe Wark, last year's captain and a superb defensive catcher, has graduated, and junior Vinnie Martelli inherits the spot. The squad's top all-around hitter a year ago. Martelli has spent time at designated hitter, first base and in the outfield the past two seasons, but his first love, and best position, is behind the plate...
...will return to Briggs Cage for practice sessions and simulated games, moving outside if conditions allow. Greg Brown, yesterday's scheduled starter, will throw in the Cage today with Billy Doyle on tap to do the same tomorrow. The rest of the staff will be skiing laps in the outfield...
...outfield Williams hits fungoes. "The Splendid Splinter" is no longer a splinter. His stomach expands his windbreaker. "Ted the Kid"-his other nickname-is 63. Between fungoes he steals wistful glances at the kids in the batting cage doing the real hitting, kids who weren't even born when he retired. When he hits a ball over a frantically scrambling young outfielder's head, he gives a cackling laugh and shouts, "Bye! See yah later." An old man's revenge...
Fans never stop being awed and appalled by sports' high finances. (Cincinnati has surrendered its outfield in toto to New York-Ken Griffey and Dave Collins to the Yankees, George Foster to the Mets-for contracts amounting to more than $20 million.) But they are growing used to grand sums, not to mention outlandish arbitrations. Mike Flanagan, the Baltimore pitcher, submitted a figure of $485,000 and then found out that the Orioles' recommendation to the arbitrator was $500,000. Deferring to their superior judgment, Mike instantly gave...
Earthquakes aside, Hollister has small claim to fame. When Babe Ruth arrogantly pointed his finger toward the outfield wall and then hit a home run to that spot against the Chicago Cubs in 1932, it was a Hollister boy, Charlie Root, who served up the pitch. Motorcyclists have long gathered amid the rolling hills outside town for rallies and roguery. Back in 1947 the bikers rumbled into Hollister and lounged around the main street until some boys from the Elks' Lodge poured beer on them from their second-floor meeting room. The infuriated bikers terrorized the town, riding their...