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...steel-trap mind is rusty. In a recent interview, Barry's fatigue overwhelmed him. His face sagged, his eyelids drooped. He talked haltingly, stopping often to gaze at the far wall of his cavernous office. He mixed up dates and forgot a name. At one point, a pitcher of ice water in his hand, he poised haltingly over his coffee cup as his face betrayed mounting confusion over the disappearance of his water glass, which he had earlier placed behind him. "It's just like an airport novel," muses a city official. "It's like the poor country...
...view, the clubs lost priceless cohesiveness when they boarded airplanes. For these old-timers, alcohol was the prevailing addiction. Red Sox manager Joe McCarthy hectored his players about the evils of drink and then went on benders himself. Kinder, whom Halberstam considers the American League's best relief pitcher of the time, was usually boiled...
Icons as regal as Ernie Banks ($12 an autograph), Willie Mays ($12) and Joe DiMaggio ($30) are involved. "It's the free-enterprise system," says ex- Oriole pitcher Jim Palmer, who is capable of modeling underpants on billboards without blushing and is available to sign anyone's shorts for $10. Mostly they sign bubble-gum cards and glossy pictures...
With runners on first and second, a balk was called on Harvard starting pitcher Mike Dorrington. He got Terrier third baseman James Sartori in an 0-2 hole, but lost him, walking Sartori and loading the bases...
Both teams had forgettable first innings. Dorrington gave up three hits and three runs. And the first thought that came to his mind was, in the immortal words of our former president, "There they go again," But BU starting pitcher Ron Short wouldn't allow any jokes to go at Ronald Reagan's expense and promptly gave up three runs...