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...third, 5 1/2 games back, which isn't bad for a team paying $2.4 million a year to a pitcher (Matt Young) who is psychologically incapable of throwing the ball to first base. Go figure...
...third, 5 1/2 games back, which isn't bad for a team paying $2.4 million a year to a pitcher (Matt Young) who is psychologically incapable of throwing the ball to first base. Go figure...
...math teacher, she a homemaker. Their eldest child, Claudia, has dropped out of college to marry and bear a succession of babies; Danny, the middle Bedloe, has graduated from high school and now works at the post office; Ian, the youngest, is in the 11th grade and a promising pitcher on the baseball team. "There was this about the Bedloes," Tyler writes. "They believed that every part of their lives was absolutely wonderful. It wasn't just an act, either. They really did believe...
...understanding of how it feels to play this child's game for a living. Perhaps the best recent glimpse of baseball's inner life can be found in The 26th Man by Steve Fireovid (Macmillan; $18.95), a poignant journal of the 1990 season by a career minor-league pitcher still dreaming of one more cup of coffee in the big leagues. The story line is simple and honest: Fireovid, then 33, a righthander who gets by more on guile than God-given talent, posts the second best earned- run average in the American Association while gamely stifling his disappointment...
...people from the safety of their family to the freedom of the rest of their life. Some students arrive barely knowing how to drink and sleep, much less drink and sleep together; they have little sense of what is appropriate and what is expected of them. So with a pitcher of beer in one hand and a dorm key in the other, society's children set out to discover who they...