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...image is worth savoring. A pick-off can be a thing of beauty: the pitcher leans in toward home plate, spies the base runner overreaching himself, then suddenly wheels and fires to first to nab him by half a step. Artful misdirection plus exact timing equals a dramatic out; Vincent understands that baseball equation. For never in the game's history has there been a pick-off move as adroit and emotionally satisfying as the one the commissioner executed last week when he threw George Steinbrenner out as the principal owner of the Yankees...
...Harvard pair dropped a heartbreaking first set to Diana Gardner and Lauren Fortgang, 7-6, but bounced back to nab the middle stanza and force a third...
...Greyhound and elsewhere, workers who walk out learn they might not be welcome back. -- Investigators complain that they lack the man power to nab crooked savings and loan executives...
Thanks, Tod: ...who needed the extra point to nab sole possession of firth place on Harvard's all-time scoring list. With that point, his only one of the weekend, Young finished his Harvard career with 84 goals and 78 assists for 162 career points, one ahead of George Hughes...
Baker, who is new to hard-ball squash this year, couldn't quite assimilate to Musto's vicious mix of three-walls. Recovering from a flu, Baker could not rely on endurance to nab a win. He was leading, 2-0, when Musto's hard-ball experience started to take its toll on Baker. Musto won the next three games...