Word: pitcher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think of sport as life itself is tragic. None succumb to this delusion more readily than ghetto youth, for whom athletics is both a means of escape and an opportunity for approval. And none have described the process better than Pat Jordan. His own decline as a professional pitcher was recollected in the poignant autobiography A False Spring. Four years ater, he turns from the diamond to the court to watch basketball players yield to the pressures of ambition, and to the damning testimony of their skills...
...rented office in Fairfield, pecking out as few as five pages of finished copy a week. Says he: "I'm the world's slowest writer. I write each sentence three times before I go on to another." But Jordan, who admits that he failed as a pitcher because, among other reasons, he was "always trying to gel fast balls by heavy hitters," cannot speed up. There is no reason why he should. In the sportswriters' league, he can go a long way on style and control...
...which pitcher did Henry Aaron hit home run number...
...What is Mike Marshall's record for most consecutive appearances by a pitcher...
...Name the pitcher who as a Yankee rookie won eight games in relief, with no saves...