Word: sandlot
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...line of ability, for one thing. Nobody, including Sandy Koufax, had any idea how good he was to become when, as an 18-year-old freshman at the University of Cincinnati, he was spotted playing on a sandlot team. In 1954, Sandy signed a Dodger contract for $6,000 plus a $14,000 bonus. Scout Al Campanis wrote in his memo to Dodger Owner Walter O'Malley: "No. 1, he's a Brooklyn boy. No. 2, he's Jewish." The Dodgers' move to Los Angeles was still four years away. In the meantime, says General Manager...
...anna's of baseball, on every from sandlot teams to the Boston Red Sox, are strewn with unsuccessful teams which had hitting, defense, speed, power--and no pitching. Barring a recurrence of the 1964 miracle, Harvard's pitching is going to cause problems this year, and if you haven't got it there, you must haven...
...breed-amateurs who knock one another around for the pure delight of it. At a time when the most voracious fan can get his kicks by twisting a TV dial, do-it-yourself football seems absurdly out of date. But every Sunday, in dozens of U.S. cities, the sandlots are full of amateurs with a yen to work off frustrations, sweat out hangovers or relive their younger days of gridiron glory. They are plumbers, policemen, office workers, salesmen, doctors, teachers-in their 20s, 30s or even their 40s. A very few hope to catch the eye of a scout...
...play on our team at Trenton. I couldn't go for that 'yes sir, no sir' bit or all that 'win for the old red-and-black, sis, boom, bah.' " After working two years in an overall factory and playing sandlot ball on the side, Bo grabbed a pitching job with the Class D. Brunswick, Ga., Pirates, a Pittsburgh farm club. The pay: $185 a month. "A ridiculously low price," he says. "But I was looking for some place in the sun, some place I could get a tan. I figured...
...four came to the Met after distinguished triumphs abroad. Tucker arrived in 1945 after several appearances with a small opera company, a feat equivalent to a baseball player's joining the New York Yankees after a couple of weeks of sandlot ball. But Tucker had honed his voice as a member of his synagogue choir on the Lower East Side, later as a cantor (he still forgoes all performances to officiate at services during the fall High Holy Days and the spring Passover...