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...only one thing running against him--the fact that left-handed pitchers have never been a prize commodity in Fenway Park with its short left field wall, and the staff only retains one starter who's a leftie, and two or three relievers. Three pitchers (Craig Skoke, Steve Baar, Roger Moret) have vacated with only one left-handed acquisition (Tom House), but the minor league pitching "is the best we've ever had, all the way down through the organization," according to Slack and his 25 years. His future might be with another team, particularly if he has a good...
Most likely, the Nationals will be dominated by skiers from Denver University. Aarne Valkama and Harald Bjerke, a Norwegian, are strong favorites in the Nordic events. Myke Baar is a definite threat in the alpine events...
...Baar, a devout Lutheran, first saw the Culion leprosy victims during World War II when he was a coast guardsman stationed at Talampulan, 22 miles away. Determined to help them, he used his G.I. Bill to earn a degree in agriculture, took missionary studies at two seminaries, orientation courses at the Carville, La. leprosarium. From Lutheran groups in Missouri he got an appointment to Culion, sailed for the Philippines with a jeep, a garden tractor and a plow...
Work in fields and Bible study in his hut occupy most of his time, though Baar relieves the routine by reading farm magazines, working with livestock, playing with German Shepherd dogs that he is breeding as future Seeing Eye dogs for blind patients. Sometimes he paddles in the sea in a native canoe or chugs by outboard motorboat to nearby Talampulan, where he can talk to the 13 U.S. coast guardsmen stationed there. When Christmas comes, Baar will spend the day at Talampulan, for he feels that he will be better prepared to carry on his lonely life...
...snow and the ice skating, and most of all the all-day family reunions, and the big, brightly lighted Christmas tree that always touched our living-room ceiling, and the family singing before the fireplace, and the windows of the neighborhood with all the colored lights." Some day Harold Baar will spend Christmas with his family again. "But," he says, "there's still a lot to do in Culion...