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...next Dodger, Terry Whitfield, is a pinch hitter customarily, pressed into the lineup by injuries. Maybe because he spent three seasons in Japan, his hitting theories are serenely uncomplicated. "A lot of players think at the plate," he says. "I just hack. I go up there, I see the ball, I hit it." What he will see from Gooden, if he can see them, are all fast balls, and all strikes. Catcher Carter stopped proposing anything else after Gooden shook off two curves. "If he wants to throw something you don't want him to throw," Manager Johnson has advised...
Seeing at least the third and fourth pitches, because he fouls those off, Whitfield finally strikes out on the fifth. After nine pitches, without ever leaving the strike zone, the Mets' emergency ends and the Dodgers' begins. In the top of the ninth, Valenzuela also loads the bases with no outs. But they are emptied by singles that include Gooden's third of the game. The final score is 4-1. "That's the first time in my career that I ever saw a pitcher fire up the offense," muses Hernandez afterward. He refers to Gooden's pitching...
When Terry Whitfield triples into the gap and the ball rolls up the hill, the fans make no effort to interfere with Jim Wohlford as he scrambles up the bank and into the crowd in hot pursuit. They love the game too much to mar play by grabbing the ball for a souvenir...
Ophthalmologist Randolph Whitfield Jr.: $220,000 in 1982. The award came just as an idealistic and successful program he founded was about to collapse for lack of funds. During the past eleven years, Whitfield has directed an internationally acclaimed effort to reduce avoidable blindness among tribes in rural Kenya. At Nyeri Provincial Hospital near snow-capped Mount Kenya, Whitfield trains paramedics and clinical officers in outlying districts to combat such prevalent eye diseases as glaucoma and trachoma. He also conducts pioneering surveys that trace the spread of blindness in deprived areas...
...MacArthur funds, says Whitfield, will help his program "just to survive-the amount of equipment or drugs that could be bought with my monthly salary isn't likely to have much effect on the problems of blindness in Kenya." The training methods that Whitfield can continue to develop, thanks to the MacArthur donation, have been adopted for use by the World Health Organization in other Third World countries...