Word: sandlot
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...first three miles of the loop winding from the south side of the Broadway esplanade around the sandlot baseball diamonds and the historic Van Cortland family mansion, the pack was too tightly bunched to predict the final outcome...
...coincidence, Associate Editor B.J. Phillips, who wrote the cover, is a woman. She is also our regular sportswriter and a diehard baseball fan who spent a Southern small-town childhood hoping to make the major leagues. She did enjoy a brief career on the sandlot, but when at 14 she came home bleeding from a spike wound, her mother took a hard stand. Says Phillips: "That's when I became a proper young lady...
Fidrych's account begins with his sandlot days in Northboro, Mass., and then relates his quick rise through the minors into major league notoriety. Only die-hard baseball enthusiasts will appreciate this prolonged session of baseball gossip. In fact, such fans will not only appreciate it, they will relish it. The tales of Stubby Overmire, John "The Grod" Grodzinski, the Appalachian League, clubhouse follies--after all, what could be more enthralling...
Eventually, however, he and a friend began playing in weekend sandlot games in Macombs Dam Park, adjacent to Yankee Stadium. The hitting touch developed in Panama had not deserted him. After a few weeks he caught the eye of a teammate's father who was a "bird dog"-an unofficial unpaid scout -for the Minnesota Twins. A phone call brought a scout; the scout made another call, which, in turn, fetched the Twins' farm director. Finally, when Minnesota came to town for a series with the Yankees, young Carew was brought inside the stadium...
...DiMaggio gliding around second base without ever losing his cap, it is Willie Mays soaring through center field space, snaring a foolishly ambitious triple in mid-arc. But baseball is also a hungry kid with visions of a big league paycheck waging war in a dusty sandlot game, swallowing the lump in his throat as the big rainbow curve whirs towards his head, wanting to bail out but afraid to do anything but take a big man's cut and slice the air as the rainbow follows down and away for strike three. It is the agony of the minor...