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...corn. The technique requires some mechanical device (often a teaching machine) to hide the printed answer until the student is ready to compare it with his own. Sullivan's solution is to print answers on the left side of each page, which children can cover with a cardboard slider. So as not to reveal answers to upcoming questions, the left-hand pages are printed upside down, and the child flips the book over after reaching the back page, works through the book again...
Peters, an efficient hurler on three days' rest, throws a wicked fastball, curve, slider, and change-up. During his senior year, he walked only four batters in 54 innings. He also played football and basketball in high school, but at Harvard the only sport he is thinking about right now is freshman baseball...
Actually, as pitchers' repertories go, Spahn's is fairly extensive. He has four basic pitches: a fast ball that sails upward as it nears the plate; a curve that breaks to his right; a screwball that breaks left; and a slider-a modified fast ball that veers slightly inside to a right-handed batter. Every pitch starts with precisely the same motion: a long, slow rock-back, a high fluid kick, and a flurry of arms and legs that "makes the ball look as though it is coming right out of my uniform." And then there...
...cursed the "rabbit ball," but New York's Whitey Ford, 33, and Milwaukee's Warren Spahn, 40, kept on winning ball games. Spahn's fast ball had lost its zip, and his legs were rubbery from 22 years on the mound, but he parlayed a new slider and an old pro's cunning into the best all-round record of any major-league pitcher. Spahn led the National League in complete games (21), earned-run average (3.01) and consecutive, victories (10), tied Cincinnati's Joey Jay for most games won (21). He also pitched...
...season, but turned in an impressive 2.39 earned run average in 49 innings pitched. Thus far this season Yarbro has won two games, and lost to Navy when his defense collapsed and let in four unearned runs. Though not over powerfully fast, he mixes a curve, change-up and slider well...