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Question: What big-league baseball team would hire a pitcher on the recommendation of an usher in its ballpark? Answer: the New York Mets. O.K. But when that same pitcher then goes out and wins three games in a row, striking out 24 batters, allowing only 15 hits, seven walks and one run in 27 innings - well, that's talent...
...just two pitches: a steaming fastball and a tantalizing slow curve. He never played high-school baseball, but pitched for Army and semi-pro teams while he was at Fort Bliss, Texas in 1964. "My catcher was a fellow named John Lucchese," recalls Jerry, "whose father was an usher at Shea Stadium. He told his dad he had a pretty good pitcher, and his dad told the Mets. They sent a guy out to scout me, and he offered me $1,600 to sign. I turned him down, so the next time he offered me $1,500. Every time...
Sullivan himself looked even nattier than he does each Sunday when, as St. Paul's head usher, he greets parishoners at the door. Silvery hair and glasses gleaming, he bounced from table to table greeting friends and allies. With a broad smile, he accepted flowers from a Democratic committee-woman, a scroll from the Michael A. Sullivan Memorial Associates (a continuing Sullivan campaign organization), a chair from the committee of friends giving the dinner, and a fire-helmet from the Cambridge Fire Department. "It's his smile; he'd win it on his smile alone," one woman said...
...clock, women and students clear out, and the theatre settles into total silence. The only sound is the usher, thrashing about as he watches the screen over his shoulder...
...come from the audience. During one recent from the audience. During one recent film in which the screen goes black and a passionate panting can be heard, a colored kid in the first row cut loose with an enviable imitation of a cat in heat that made even the usher laugh...