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While Eckersley settled down and hurled near-hitless ball Tiger twirler Jack Morris held the Bosox in check until the sixth, yielding a lone fourth-inning tally on a Carl Yastrzemski sacrifice fly and nary else...
...opener, the Crimson turned six fifth-inning walks into seven runs to lead Carson over the Lions. Behind 3-0 after four innings, Columbia twirler Mike Allen dealt three passes to Bingham and Farrell to open the fifth, and departed in favor of freshman Robert Flock. The reliever faced six batters, walking four, hitting one and allowing Joe Wark to loft a sacrifice fly to drive in another run, before taking leave down...
...Orioles this year--California or maybe the Brobdingnagian Pittsburgh Pirates--with about 16 homeruns in a four-game sweep. The Orioles are the most boring team in baseball, a gaggle of colorless Holy Rollers. Around the league they tell this story about how Tippy Martinez, Baltimore's top bullpen twirler, invited Earl Weaver to a 7:30 a.m. Sunday prayer breakfast...
Lisa has cause for worry. Only seven girls can be chosen for the Huntsville twirling line, and competition is tough. Her elder sister Susan was a Huntsville High twirler for two years. But then the unthinkable happened. She failed to make the cut. Friends whisper that she gained too much weight to make the line. It was traumatic. "It affected Susan's image of herself," says Dick Cording, the girls' sympathetic father, who is chairman of the philosophy department at nearby Sam Houston State University. As a result, he says, "we've talked a lot about handling...
...hour. A week at one of the dozen or more twirling camps that blossom in the heat of Texas summer is about $90. Stretchy costumes cost as much as $60. The batons themselves, chrome-plated steel from 16 in. to 30 in. long, are about $12.50. Twirler parents spend about $600 a year, and some begin pushing their daughters into contests before they are old enough to go to school...