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...Brien, a tall righthander, faced only 29 men, striking out five and walking only one with his overhand and sidearm fastballs. Jim McCandlish performed creditably enough on the mound for the Crimson, but given the sorry state of the Harvard offense, the only way he could have won was by a clerical error...
...with a warm-water pool in Coldwater Canyon. She doesn't smoke, but she will now and then take a little brandy and soda. With ice? Unthinkable. She would love to be able to play tennis, but she says she is too awkward: "If I throw a ball overhand," she says, "I without fail will be flat on my bottom." She confides that she would really "like to be a sexy bombshell. But I'm not and never will be. So what I'd like would be really wacky comedy. I'd love to throw custard...
...sturdy (6 ft. 2 in., 205 Ibs.) lefthander, Koufax has a baffling overhand motion and a bewildering arsenal of pitches. His fastball comes in like a 20-mm. cannon shell; his curve breaks so sharply that it acts, says Dodger Catcher John Roseboro, "like a chair whose legs suddenly collapse." Control? "When an umpire calls my pitch a ball," says Koufax casually, "that means it is either high or low. It's never outside or inside." All in all, agrees St. Louis Cardinals' Slugger Ken Boyer, "Koufax is just too damned much...
When the warmup call goes out to the bullpen, Radatz consults his mental book on the hitters that he is likely to face. "If lefthanders are coming up," he says, "I practice throwing overhand. For righthanders, I warm up sidearm." He throws his fast ball about 80% of the time, and some rival batters claim they actually smell smoke as it rips past. "Sal Maglie taught me the importance of getting everything behind each pitch," Radatz says. "He argued that 240 Ibs. was a natural blessing-so why not put it to good use?" Radatz likes to face pinch hitters...
...Daddy! Daddy!" At the opening bell, Fullmer characteristically folded his arms in front of him to ward off punches and lunged forward-straight into a barrage of overhand rights and crisp left hooks that snapped his head back and opened a small cut at the edge of his left eye. Desperately, Fullmer began to elbow and butt, trying to bull Tiger into the ropes. Ruthlessly, the Nigerian Tiger mimicked him, tactic for tactic. By the ninth round, blood cascaded down the champion's left cheek. Sitting horror-stricken at ringside, four-year-old DeLaun Fullmer screamed, "Daddy! Daddy...