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...baseball player, Moe Berg belonged in the sock drawer of fame. He began his professional career in 1923 as the third baseman for the Brooklyn Robins and ended it 17 years later as the third-string catcher for the Boston Red Sox. He spent most of his playing days schmoozing and reading in dugouts and bullpens. His lifetime batting average was .243, he had only six home runs, and he was error-prone. If Berg ever stole a base, his latest biography, The Catcher Was a Spy (Pantheon; 453 pages; $24), does not mention...
...Boggsie, what a third baseman. He's paying like he just fell in love, huh? They said he was through in Boston, what a joke. If he doesn't remind one of an older Brooks Robinson, I don't know what does...
Yale, the three-time defending league champion, placed six players on the first team: Lock, pitcher Adam Doherty, first baseman Bryan Hobbs, third sacker Gary Butterworth and outfielders Dave Feuerstein and Dan Thompson...
Hail to the Chief. Twin first baseman Kent Hrbek, who has said he might retire after this season at 34 because of the abuse his body has taken during 14 years in the major leagues, was told that he shouldn't quit because, after all, the Celtics' Robert Parish, who's 40, wants to play another season. "But he's the Chief," Hrbek said, "and I'm a wreck." And that was before he went on the DL again on Sunday with a strained right hamstring...
...meetings, in fact, that the get-togethers are beginning to bother the players, who think the culprit is team vice president Larry Himes, not Trebelhorn. "We hold so many meetings that by the time we get on the field, no one knows what to think anymore," says Chicago third baseman Steve Buechele. "This game is played by instinct, not by radar guns and charts and computers and all that other crap they throw...