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Sheriff Vaughn Killeen, leading the manhunt from a Boise command center, was unimpressed by Dallas' folk-hero image, garnished by two books and likely to be embellished in a movie that had been planned before his escape. Scoffed the sheriff: "The only difference between Dallas and other escapees is that he rides a horse and the others drive...
...women also displayed their command of pantomime in some of the humorous numbers. Dressed in colorful costumes from the '20s, they lifted their legs effortlessly into arabesques. The motion does not stop as the women join their partners in a finale of lunges, head rolls and turns with their arms carving angular shapes in the air. This breathless scene ended as a bell rings and a train whistle blows in the distance...
...chalk-drawn strike zone. "Just me and him," Youmans whispers conspiratorially. "We weren't supposed to--the coaches all the way down the line told us not to--but we'd sneak out and practice throwing curve balls. When he was twelve, I knew. By twelve he had command. Almost nobody could catch his fastball either: he broke one guy's hand, another guy's wrist." Without irony, Gooden's playmates took to calling him Doctor. Dan Gooden believes his son's nickname came from an infielder's chatter: "C'mon, Dr. Dwight, operate on him!" Youmans says...
...what you see," Bucky Harris used to advise his Washington Senators, "and if you don't see it, come on back." Ralph Kiner, the Mets' announcer, nee '40s slugger, testifies, "No question about it, Feller was faster." But Gooden, he says, has the more advanced "control" and "command...
Advancements in technology and improvements in early-level coaching may be part of what Manager Johnson terms Gooden's "instinctive sophistication." But poise is unteachable and Gooden's kind of confidence inexplicable. By Johnson's calculations, "Dwight's already got more command than any pitcher I ever saw." Off the field, absently tapping his drums or vaguely thinking of marriage, Gooden is also the picture of control. Strawberry, the Met outfielder Gooden is no longer mistaken for, took a square look at his friend in his wet new hairdo this spring to see if $1.32 million wears any differently than...