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Lowenstein has a pitch-perfect sense of the Street's monumental recklessness. The chorus line of overpaid bad actors in this book is endless. Held out for particular scorn is Lehman CEO Richard Fuld, who has "the daring of a gambler who believes, deep down, that he will always be able to play the last card." Maybe he did, yet as the book impressively shows, Fuld lost...
...long-pitch at bats, saw a lot of pitches, got a lot of guys on, and had big innings,” Albright said...
...Harvard pitcher also made two highlight-reel plays in the second inning, catching a hard-hit one-hopper off the bat of junior Will Davis. On the next play, Quaker senior Steve Grable hit a pitch hard up the middle to Eadington, who calmly knocked down the line drive and threw Grable out at first...
...usually starting to watch his pitch count in the fifth or sixth inning; he’s usually approaching 100+ pitches,” Walsh said. “He got through eight innings last week right around that 100 mark. That just means that he’s throwing a lot more strikes, and he’s using his off speeds and inviting contact from the hitters, not going after the strikeouts. So I’m hoping to get a little bit more of that from...
...some schools for a pilot program. "We didn't know anything about what we were doing," Fryer says. They couldn't afford to stay in New York, so they stayed at a hotel in the Meadowlands - a grim tract of wetlands in New Jersey. Then they drove around to pitch the idea to principals...