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...GENERAL, cross country runners are a self-sufficient lot. There is no necessity that they work together during a contest, at least not in the same way that a shortstop and second baseman must. And there is always an undercurrent of keen competition among team members. Coach McCurdy keeps detailed records of workout times and meet performances, and most runners are experts at memorizing these statistics and comparing them in a good-natured fashion...
...insurance adjuster who picked up extra cash by giving electric-organ lessons on the side, the heavy-handed elder McLain was a semipro shortstop in his youth. He started Denny on his lessons early?both at the keyboard and on the diamond. Denny had trouble deciding which he liked best, the organ or baseball. "He'd be having a game in the park across the street," his mother remembers, "and he'd call Time!' and run into the house and play a couple of songs on the organ. Everybody would have to wait for him, and he'd play...
...devoted to protecting him from himself. They are necessary. Fame has brought Denny fortune?and constant problems. At home, the phone is forever ringing with calls from people pleading with him to visit their store, appear at their nightclub, endorse their product. On the road, Denny's current roommate, Shortstop Ray Oyler, has taken to answering the phone: "Mr. McLain's office." Denny is already scheduled for post-season appearances, playing the organ on the Ed Sullivan Show and at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas. Capitol is preparing a record album by the Denny McLain Quintet, with Denny playing...
Surfeit of Sophistication. "It began about 1953 in the Little Leagues," says California Angels Shortstop Jim Fregosi. "They started taking all the good athletes and making them pitchers." By the time he is twelve, today's Little Leaguer can cut the corner of the plate with a curve and he has the confidence to throw one on a three-and-two count. When he reaches the majors at an average age of 20, after progressing through the Pony League, high school, American Legion baseball, college and/or the minors, he is already a polished pro. Never before have the majors...
...Harvard sports scene as a jumping-jack sophomore basketball player. Only 6-1, he could leap with the Ivy centers, had a quick, accurate jump shot and looked like a sure-fire all-time Harvard great. In the spring of that sophomore year, Grate won the starting shortstop position on the varsity baseball team and won the Wendell Bat, awarded the team's most effective offensive player. Then he ran into eligibility problems and just managed to get through the 1967 basketball season before he was sidelined. This winter, eligible again, he ran into personal problems and ill health just...