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...left-handed shortstop steps up to the plate. It's a tie ball game--two-all in the fifth--and the infielders shout encouragement to the pitcher and heckle the diminutive hitter. Cheers resound from the batter's bench--"Come on Dr. longball, hit another homer. "The infield, hearing this, takes a few steps back. The pitch: a swing. it's a hit, not a crackling liner that sends the second baseman diving. But rather a dainty dribbler that leaves the third baseman stymied in her shoes as the softball slowly scoots along the third base line and comes...
...have mysteriously evolved into some slightly more agile species of lizard. Robert Almon, for example, wears the predictable colors: pink Oxfordcloth shirt, blue-and maroon-striped necktie, gray suit, black loafers as polished as medieval armor. One of six children of a Rhode Island family (his younger brother plays shortstop for the Chicago White Sox), Almon majored in psychology and literature at Brown University, then got an M.B.A. from Harvard in 1977. At 29, he now earns more than $40,000 as a manager of financial analysts in the treasurer's office of General Motors. Predictably, he should talk...
...choked off a Minnesota Twins rally with the ultimate schoolyard sucker-play-the old hidden-ball trick. Martin's merry men helped mount the season's first major brawl, a bench-emptier with Seattle during Oakland's record-setting eleventh win. There is even a shortstop, Mack "Shooty" Babitt, who sprints to first base when he draws a walk and, occasionally, slides...
...threw to first baseman Martelli. At the same time, Landry inched toward home, and Martelli quickly relayed the ball to third baseman Dan Skaff, who rifled it home to catcher Wark. As Scott rounded second and headed for third. Landry backed up the baseline, and Wark threw to shortstop Bauer, who ran Landry down the line toward home and flipped to Martelli for the putout. Scott meanwhile advancing to third. Scorich forced the batter, Don McGuirk, to pop up on the next pitch. BOSTON COLLEGE (7) AB R H Bl Follen, df 4 1 1 1 DeDonato...
Defensive standouts for the Crimson nine included shortstop Landya "Whiz Kid" Boyer, a freshman who snatched up Tufts line-drives like a gambler grabs the dice at a craps table...