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Splendid idiosyncratic essays abound here. Angell's profile of Steve Blass, the Pirate pitcher, who, a year after winning the seventh game of the World Series, mysteriously lost the ability to throw strikes, is classic. There is no definite explanation for Blass's sudden downfall--baseball people will tell you simply that he was not "in the groove," which explains nothing at all. Angell speculates that Blass was unnerved by the burden of team leadership that he felt pushed on him by the untimely death of Roberto Clemente...
Past Vice Presidents would be amazed and envious of Walter Frederick Mondale. Here is a Veep not only exercising power but reveling in it, surrounded by scurrying aides and history in the making. In the job that one of his 41 predecessors (John Nance Garner) compared unfavorably to a pitcher of warm spit, Mondale claims to be having the time of his life. He is a top adviser who is consulted, listened to and liked by the President: One measure of his closeness with his boss is their good-natured exchange of gibes. At the Gridiron Dinner, Mondale remarked...
...scoring double by Burke St. John later in the frame provided the Crimson with all it would need for the victory. But the visitors kept on chugging, backing up the seven-strikeout performance of winning pitcher Tim Clifford over the first six innings...
...onslaught of hits continued in the fourth as Harvard began the inning with five straight hits. This brought on the third Dartmouth pitcher, Steven Boulanger, who managed to hold on until Harvard's nine-run seventh...
Eliot put the winning runs on base in the bottom half of the seventh inning in the title game, but Dudley pitcher John Costa held on for the victory...