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From the age of eight, Gooden and his closest neighborhood friend, Floyd Youmans, filled Tampa's afternoons with pepper. Using a battered aluminum can for a ball, they waged endless rounds of home-run derby or argued themselves angry over a game called Strikeout that featured a hard rubber ball, a red brick wall and a chalk-drawn strike zone. "Just me and him," Youmans whispers conspiratorially. "We weren't supposed to--the coaches all the way down the line told us not to--but we'd sneak out and practice throwing curve balls. When he was twelve, I knew...
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...third pitch, Brock strikes out, Gooden's 99th strikeout of the year in 93 innings. With 276 strikeouts last season, he blew by Grover Cleveland Alexander, Herb Score and every other rookie in history. "Am I going to hurt myself? It's all mechanics, I think, and it's God-given talent, I know." He calms everyone who frets for his young arm, seemingly every person he meets: "From high school on, even before that, I have always kept something warm on my arm late at night. I'm not afraid. I make sure...
Princeton (28 10 overall) split with visiting Harvard (29-8) in a doubleheader April 5 Senior Jeff Musselman tossed an 11-strikeout two-hitter as the Crimson took the opener, 3-2, but Mike Fiala countered with a four-hitter to give the Tigers the second game...
...categories and you learn that Argens Salazar was 134th and last in the National League in batting average (including a several .089 during the day), slugging average, on-base percentage and home-run percentage: that he was second to last in walk percentage and seventh from the bottom in strikeout percentage...