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Freshman Janet Dickerman, pitching her first game ever in a Crimson uniform, used control rather than a lot of heat to hold B.U. to two hits in the victory. "It was really great, I got a lot of help from the outfielders. I just tried to hit the corners and change speed...
...State Department, in the early hours of the crisis, most of the staff shared the amusement of the press and public over what was perceived as a Gilbert and Sullivan battle over a sheep pasture between a choleric old John Bull and a comic dictator in a gaudy uniform. Among the White House staff, there was little sense of urgency...
...cloudless day in Winter Haven, Fla., where everyone has been taken with No. 21, both the age and the uniform of Boston Red Sox Pitcher Roger Clemens, a righthander who won the deciding game of the past college world series for the University of Texas and spent last summer brightening two minor leagues. Against Detroit a few days ago, Clemens struck out three men on ten pitches, causing Tiger Manager Sparky Anderson to proclaim, "This is the best, most poised young pitcher I've seen since Tom Seaver: great rising fastball, pretty good curve...
...playing Los Angeles now, and Sandy Koufax, who did get scattery when he was 21, has momentarily reappeared at 48 in his Dodger uniform. "One year I got so tired of trying to find home plate," he says, "I dumped all of my equipment in the clubhouse trash can and walked out." Koufax begins to tell a story of his first game at Brooklyn's Ebbets Field, and just as he is giving up a double to Sam Mele, who should happen by in a Red Sox suit but Mele. This is the charm of spring training. Ted Williams...
...back on a bench in Bradenton, the first Pirate to arrive for the day's game. He is the most experienced major leaguer of all, 25 seasons, 26 if he latches on with Pittsburgh or some other team this year. This appears unlikely. Frankly, his seventh big-league uniform, bright yellow with black stripes, is not his particular favorite. "I feel like a school bus with lips," he says. But he expresses no self-consciousness trying out at 45. "All of us can't leave like Carl Yastrzemski or Johnny Bench," he says. "I don't feel...