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...Next comes Hendricks, Winthrop's pitcher, so he probably can't hit worth a damn anyway. Dudley's hurler winds up and whips one high and outside, and I hear Hendricks mutter, 'Hey, what's going on here...
...logs more hours in the batting cage than Stenhouse. His low key demeanor belies his flamboyant brinksmanship at the plate. Harvard pitcher Steve Baloff calls him "sudden Sten" because "I'll be quiet and then...
...theater of the night" ? the rituals of sociability and long dinner conversations. His extracurricular passion (apart from cats) is baseball, which he regards not only as "an allegorical play about America" but as a metaphor of ideal conduct. "At night," he says, "I often identify myself with the pitcher who pitches a perfect game. Before falling asleep I strike out a side, then in the next inning I initiate a triple play, then I go ahead at bat and hit a homer. All these fantasies, based on the true glory of base ball! And why? Because a major league...
...second car I saw on the lonely night road that pulled over and offered me door-service. It was Thurman Munson, sipping a Budweiser, scrubbing his day-old whiskers and casually directing his Corvette. After exchanging the usual biographical information, I found out that Thurman was a pitcher from Omaha playing for the Cleveland Indian Double...
...scoring position with one gone in the first, your best hitter coming up, and their pitcher a little wild--hey, it changes the whole complexion of the ball game," Park said afterward...