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Last summer, Stoeckel devoted himself full-time to baseball, swinging a wood bat at the IMG Academies’ Florida Collegiate Instructional League. He will have to hold his own at the plate, Stoeckel knows, to hold down the job at short...
...doesn’t have to rush Vance back to shortstop. Stoeckel, who, along with five other members of the team, happens to be Vance’s suitemate, walked on to the squad as a sophomore and saw limited time as a utility infielder last season. At the plate, Stoeckel—with just three singles in 20 career at-bats—won’t scare opposing pitchers the way Vance does, but his quick hands remind the Crimson coaching staff of the solid defense Brown brought to that position during his All-Ivy campaigns...
Jessica Pledger, like Murphy, is listed as both a catcher and a third basemen, but has seen most of her action this year behind the plate. She has also appeared as a designated hitter and in several pinch-hit opportunities...
...author, Stéphane Reynaud, a self-taught chef who was born into the meat business. "I love the pig and like the pork," he writes. While his musings about pigs are affectionate, Reynaud, 40, avoids sentimentality by refusing to gloss over the animal's journey from pen to plate. Instead he makes a feature of it, opening the book with a chapter titled "Pig-Killing Time at Saint-Agrève" (his mountain hometown in the Ardèche region of France) that is a frank, celebratory portrayal of the "taking apart and devouring" of one of the locally...
...more important is what the hara-kiri hat trick shows about Robert Gates, the new secretary of defense, and the new kind of leadership he has brought to the Pentagon. "I don't have very much patience for people that don't step up to the plate in terms of addressing problems that are under their responsibility," Gates said shortly before he ordered Harvey to submit his resignation papers...