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Listed at 6-ft, 175 pounds, Musselman gets a lot of speed on the ball. His fastball tails away from a righthander, and he's got an incredible slider. Marchese also has a fastball and a slider, and he's good at changing speeds...
...descending feet first at 70 m.p.h. or more. The problem is finding enough enthusiasts for the sport. There are only 250 competitors in the U.S. (Hey, kids, want to go to the Olympics? This could be your best bet.) Stanford University Junior Bonny Warner, the top woman slider on the improving squad, had never heard of luge four years ago. She won a magazine contest to be a 1980 Olympic flame carrier and on a lark attended a Lake Placid luge development camp. One ride did it: "I was just a maniac for the sport," she says. "I couldn...
...Phillies hadn't scored a run against the Dodgers all year for pitcher Steve Carlton. So when Mike Schmidt golfed a low Jerry Reuss slider over the center field fence in the first inning to give the Phillies a 1-0 lead, Carlton was prepared to defend...
...fastball, he has been moving the ball around at varying speeds. His shining eyes make it silly to ask if pitching is still fun for him, but he answers anyway. "It's more complicated than fun," he says, "more sophisticated than that. But fun, yes. I brought my slider out of the closet today, and I've been moving my sinker in and away. I feel good. There are puzzles to work out, but it's enjoyable work." He is a devotee of puzzles, particularly the crosswords in the New York Times, and has come across himself...
...their relics. The hard-fought 1980s Astros-Phillies championship series included four extra innings games which were "Lovre pieces" highlighted by the seesaw Game Four--"baseball of the High Baroque, surely." A leading object de studie is Ron Guidry, who "is not a thrower...his every pitch, including the slider, contributes to an eloquent major theme built around the keynote, which is the fastball." A most cherished possession is the recollection of "Brooks Robinson's extended doctoral thesis on third-base play, which he presented in the otherwise unnotable World Series...