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...December of 2007 has also been a banner month for a once moribund campaign. While still trailing former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney in the Granite State, McCain has picked up two coveted endorsements: from the New Hampshire Union-Leader, the state's largest newspaper, and from Curt Schilling, beloved pitcher for the World Series Champion Boston Red Sox. (Schilling's is arguably more important.) But it's the town hall meetings that give McCain and his staff the most hope. "Drawing 350 people on a Saturday night in December," says one staffer, "that's a good sign." Locals say Mitt...
Most adolescents worry about acne and raging hormones. At 15, Joe Nuxhall had to worry about a stadium full of fans urging him--as a relief pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds--to thwart the St. Louis Cardinals. During a 1944 game, the Ohio teen--whose local-league dad had recommended him to the Reds when the team was depleted by World War II--stepped up and earned two outs before losing his cool. He didn't pitch again for the team for eight years, but Nuxhall, who in recent years was the radio-broadcast voice of the Reds, had become...
...example, I was jogging with my ipod and I had it on shuffle and not all songs can be jogged to and so I kept clicking until I got to the right song and it reminded me about how in baseball the catcher has to signal to the pitcher until he agrees. They come unbidden from what I think is a very profound process of human memory and I’ve been trying to document that it happens in everyone. 3. FM: In “The Stuff of Thought,” you talk about the omnipresence...
...only won two Series in four seasons, while the Yanks won four in five years; now, that's one of those tiresome dynasties. But this Red Sox team run should have legs. "The difference between 2004 and 2007 is that this team is built to last," says veteran pitcher Tim Wakefield, who has played in Boston since 1995. "With the core of young guys and veterans who are still producing, this team will be doing special things for years...
...Beyond the fact that some people want to root for a team without having to root for its savior, making religion an organizational conviction raises plenty of questions. The Rockies don't exclude non-Christians - pitcher Jason Hirsh is Jewish - but if "Christian values" seep too deeply into the team's thinking, isn't discrimination, even of the subconscious kind, a danger...