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Brown provided a good deal of that heart, winning Games 1 and 6 and battling a stomach flu in between. With a 4-run lead after six innings of the eventual clincher, Florida manager Jim Leyland tried to take the weakened Brown out of the game, but the pitcher threw a respectful fit, and Leyland acquiesced. Even when the tying run came to the plate with two outs in the ninth, Leyland kept him in there, feeling Brown deserved to be on the field when the final out was made. When Chipper Jones hit into a force for that...
Inevitably, though, Goodwin's attachment to baseball came into conflict with her strict Catholic regimen, with a gravity that could only be a child's. Goodwin's recollection of her First Confession is perhaps the most endearing scene in the book. "I wished harm to Allie Reynolds [the Yankee pitcher]," she tells the priest. "Yes, I wished that Enos Slaughter of the Cards would break his ankle, that Phil Rizzuto of the Yanks would fracture a rib, and that Alvin Dark of the Giants would hurt his knee...I wished all these injuries would go away once the baseball season...
...about the tale of rookie pitcher and Cuban defector, Livan Hernandez. This 22-year-old who fled his homeland just over one year ago finally achieved his dream of pitching in the Major Leagues, and then turned that dream into a fantasy. He started the season 9-0 as a starter and then set a National League Championship Series record for most strikeouts in a game with 15 Ks in Game...
...other "favorites," Larry Walker plays in a park where a popped-up bunt has a chance to be a gapper, and his team stank this year. Plus, do you think Biggio or Bagwell would EVER sit out a game because he was intimidated by the opposing pitcher...
STEVE HOWE (ex-Yankee pitcher) BROUGHT: Loaded .357 Magnum EXCUSE: Filled out declaration form, but his wife, who owned the gun, forgot to unload it while packing...