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About an hour before the first pitch on a breezy Southern California evening, Arturo (Arte) Moreno, billionaire owner of the Major League Baseball team now known as the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, walks the concourse of Angels Stadium, picking up cigarette butts and greeting fans. In January Moreno upset many Orange County supporters of the former Anaheim Angels by tacking Los Angeles onto the team name, relegating Anaheim, a city of 343,000, 30 miles southeast of Los Angeles, to a mere appendage. He also granted the Angels the dubious distinction of being the only major pro-sports franchise...
Vance collected a bizarrely impressive stat line with four runs and three RBI on just one hit. That one knock of the game, incidentally, turned out to be his first collegiate home run—a drive to left on the first pitch he saw from Dartmouth rookie Kyle Zeis, his “best friend” and classmate at California’s Torrey Pines High School...
It’s a sunny Thursday afternoon in Cambridge, and the Harvard JV baseball team is battling UMass. I’m sitting in the dugout, hoping I’ll be called upon to pitch, when I overhear a reference to Pete Incaviglia, a semi-obscure Major League outfielder from the eighties and nineties...
...feeling. Coach Sullivan does have a first name, but none of us know it. He goes by “Coach,” and that seems to suffice. I tell him that my arm is feeling great, and he says that I’ll pitch the seventh inning...
...first batter pops out on my first pitch, but then steps in their juiced juggernaut of a cleanup hitter, who hammered one off the wall in a previous...