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When I started Little League at the worldly age of seven (because everyone else did), I was the most hyperactive kid on the team. If I was playing shortstop, I'd dive for a ground ball to the first baseman. ("I mean, it's fun playing baseball with just you," Calvin told Hobbes. "We get to do everything.") If I was playing left field, I'd sprint to cover second base on a bunt down the third-base line. (I'd just rather run around," Calvin told Suzie.) If I was playing catcher--wait, I said I was hyperactive...
...apparent reason, the owner sells a racetrack, the designated hitter does a line of coke, the fat slob in the fourth row spills his beer, the usher sells a We're Number One felt finger, the mascot kisses a bikini-clad fan, the general manager exiles a third baseman to Cleveland for a player to be named later, the organist plays a march, the crowd bellows "Charge," an Eastern European government goes belly-up, a newborn baby enters the world, a cancer victim leaves it and the cycle begins again. Four hundred times a game. One hundred sixty-two games...
Boggs, a five-time batting champion, reached the 1600-hit mark at the start of his ninth season. Boggs and Marty Barrett led off the first with singles and with one out, Ellis Burks was saved when first baseman Cecil Fielder dropped a foul popup for an error. Afer Burks walked, Evans doubled over center fielder Lloyd Moseby to the 420-foot mark...
...outsin the second on the losing side of a 5-1ballgame, but errors plagued the Crimson onceagain. With the bases loaded, no outs and two runsalready on the board in the inning, Huskies secondbaseman Jim Caeran hit what appeared to be a suredouble play ball to Harvard second baseman JimMwroka. The ball rolled through Mwroka's legs,however, allowing two more runs to score andsending Forman to an early shower...
...This is a much better start than last year when we got smoked in California," first baseman Nick Del Vecchio said...