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As the rookie digs in at the plate, the sun-soaked fans at Vero Beach, Fla. nudge each other and lean forward. Down on the field, leathery veterans turn away from their pepper games and sliding drills to watch. When the Los Angeles Dodgers' Frank Howard, 23, puts the...
The most celebrated rookie in years, Howard already has the stuff of legend. Playing for Victoria last year in the Class AA Texas League, Howard hit one ball that was finally tracked to a neighboring golf course-some 600 ft. from the plate. With the Dodgers last week, Howard reached...
Faced with such opposition, the Dodgers make a point of coddling their young. Time was when major-league rookies grew so tense under the pressure that Baltimore Manager Paul Richards can recall one shortstop who fell in a dead faint when a ball came his way. But at the Dodgers...
Corner on the Pooch Market. The main themes of Ko are, as its dust jacket states, "baseball, neurosis, art and death; travel, weather, self-realization and power; love, error, prophesy, destruction and pleasure." Among the characters who reel through the commotion of Koch's jouncing, rhymed octaves (following the...
Others featured at the lavish affair held at the state armory include Gil Hodges and Larry Sherry of the world champion Los Angeles Dodgers.