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...mission. So she straps him into her bed and reads passages from I Sing the Body Electric. You remember Walt Whitman; according to Annie, he pitched for the Cosmic All- Stars. And his dithyrambs, invoking "limitless limpid jets of love," could be in praise of a fastball pitcher whose arm doesn't turn to overcooked pasta in the top of the ninth. They could also be about sex. "When you know how to make love," Annie tells Nuke, "you'll know how to pitch...
WATCHING the arts at Harvard this year was a lot like drinking a pitcher of warm beer, interrupted with occasional swigs of Tabasco sauce...
...took Martin just two batters to leave the dugout. He went to the mound to counsel pitcher Charles Hudson in the top of the first inning. In the bottom of the first. Martin politely asked home plate umpire Mark Johnson to check a gold chain worn by Boston pitcher Dennis "Oil Can" Boyd...
Last week in Oakland, a pitcher for Baltimore named Mike Boddicker won his first game in a couple of seasons. A 20-game winner in 1984, Boddicker had accumulated 13 losses since his last victory and was 0-8 this season. The losing pitcher for Oakland, Dave Stewart, had been 8-0 at one time this year but had now dropped three straight. Earlier the Orioles lost 21 games in a row, while the A's were winning 22 of 26. Streaks and slumps were converging...
...players, drinking after the game is like chewing and scratching during it: it's baseball. "A couple of beers," Mets Pitcher Dwight Gooden shrugged shortly after he left a drug center last year. "I know the people at Smithers tell you to stay away from everything -- beer, whiskey, chewing tobacco, everything. But beer's not a problem with me." The Padres, Dodgers, Pirates, Angels and White Sox have yanked all the alcohol out of the clubhouse. Padres Reliever Goose Gossage reacted like Hagy and is now with the Cubs. "Poor Babe Ruth," Gossage grumbled. "He couldn't play today." Sure...