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...their sports vicariously. They arrive at the bar early every Sunday morning. Over coffee and the morning papers, they discuss the day's odds. "Miami, 2 1/2 over Denver," says the bartender. "Who do ya like?" Opinions are given, denigrated, defended. One of the men, a former semipro baseball pitcher, says to another man who was once his teammate, "You know, I'm thinking of making a comeback next spring." His former teammate nods. The ex-pitcher says. "What do you think?" His former teammate nods again. The ex-pitcher says "Would you like to catch me sometime...
...times out of 10, Gedman stops that ball, even though it must technically be ruled a wild pitch; and Stanley did what he was brought in to do--he got Wilson to hit an easily playable ground ball). Yes, this was much worse--worse than selling that great lefty pitcher named Ruth, worse than Pesky holding the ball in 1946, worse than facing the Gibson machine in 1967, worse than Joe Morgan in 1975, worse even than Bucky Dent and Yaz's pop to third...
Successful surgery has been performed on Boston Red Sox first baseman Bill Buckner, pitcher Jeff Sellers and first-base coach Walt Hriniak, the club said Thursday...
...Pitcher Roger McDowell sacrificed Santana tosecond, and Joe Sambito came in to pitch forBoston. He walked Mookie Wilson intentionally,then walked Wally Backman to load the bases.Hernandez followed with a sacrifice fly to centerthat chased Sambito, and Bob Stanley got GaryCarter to ground...
...first awful display that the Angels put on in Fenway Park, foreshadowing their final two staggers in Boston, took California Pitcher Don Sutton, 41, back to his root-beer days. "The last time I saw a game like this," he said wistfully, "the coach wouldn't take us to the Tastee-Freez." Ground balls were lost in the sun, popups in the shadows, but Grich looked the most misplaced of all, blaming Third Base Coach Moose Stubing too savagely for botching a signal. Grich remains spry enough at 37 to lash game-winning hits, but he had grown...