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...joined his family in Miami. There he became the top sparring partner of Jack Britton, who was working to regain the world welterweight championship. Fighting at 148 lbs., Sirica won a ten-round semifinal match in Miami, leading a local newspaper to head line him as a "Great Little Mitt Artist." Sirica fought a few other local "smoker" matches but quit boxing after his mother "raised all kinds of hell with me." She thought that he ought to be using his law degree...
...MITT CAMP. A concession where fortunes are told...
...things: catch the ball with one hand, and cock and fire from a crouch. Originally Bench was a traditionalist; he caught the ball with his left and covered it with his right. Taking the cue from the older Hundley, Bench switched to a hinged catcher's mitt that enabled him to snare a pitch with one hand and thus keep his right hand free -from harm, as well as to throw more quickly. Then he practiced for hour upon hour transferring the ball swiftly from glove to throwing hand while still in the crouch, always making sure that...
Neighborhood baseball was once a game that kids played with a borrowed mitt, perhaps, and often in tattered jeans and torn tennis shoes. It was one of America's summertime delights, pursued in high spirits. There might be a hassle or two over a bum call at first base, but a boy who dropped a pop fly suffered only the personal agony of embarrassment. Now, as highly organized Little League baseball, it is all too often a grim and tidily uniformed surrogate competition for adults, in which the stakes are parental egos and junior's gaffe becomes...
...Married. Mitt Romney, 22, youngest son of the HUD Secretary and a sophomore at Brigham Young University; and Ann Davies, 19, daughter of a Detroit industrialist and a Mormon convert; in Salt Lake City...