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Morrison takes a critical look at many aspects of the Times, but came away impressed by the paper's completeness and ubiquity. Says Morrison with a pinch of hyperbole: "If a tree falls in the forest and there is no New York Times reporter there to record it, the tree never fell. But then there are so many Times reporters around the world that hardly a tree falls that isn't recorded...
...deficit to overtake the Elis, 6-4. Offensively, Dave Singleton shone with a 4-for-4 day at the dish, but the big play was donated by little-used outfielder Bobby Jenkins. The speedy Jenkins, yet another one of Park's adept freshmen, singled as a pinch hitter in the sixth inning and eventually scored what proved to be the winning run when he scampered homeward on a wild pitch. He was met at the plate by a furious bear hug from Park...
Bannish, having switched roles for Game Two, now came up as a pinch hitter. The versatile junior promptly stroked a single to left, but strangely only one run scored. The next two batters failed to produce with the sacks filled, and three more went down the next inning. There was no bear hug after this one, a 5-4 loss, the squad's third in the Eastern League...
...self-professed country bumpkin with a fearsome fastball that more than made up for his scrambled syntax, but even when his arm died he still knew how to play the game. One day in the tail end of his career he found himself on first base as a pinch runner in the late innings of a crucial game. The bat cracked and leather trimmed the grass, skidding into a textbook double play. Only Dean's head and the ball arrived at second in the same painful instant, and Dean rolled onto the bag unsure of whether his hairline was still...
With men on second and third and one out, Rick Burleson grounded out off reliever Dick Tidrow to score pinch-runner Rick Miller with the typing...