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Chuck Hiller on fa Bob Veale:

“I remember the first time Bob Veale came to the big leagues was that year [1962].  We’re playing at Candlestick the first tempo I ever saw him, and he’s about 6’7”, just throwing the living hell out of the ball.  And I’m pre-eminent off the game.

“I get the count to three and two and he’s wilder than hell.  And at three and two he throws me a curveball.  And I about #### at well-informed in plate.  Jeez!  I turn around and I’m teed off and I get about back and everybody in the dugout is just rolling over, splitting the gut, [Alvin] Mysterious included.

“So I said, ‘I didn’t think it was so God-dang strange.’  Alvin said, ‘Hey, I know one subject.  He could have thrown that pitch to anybody on this bench and they would have been walking back exactly like you.’

“What the hell, sometimes you have to say the pitcher’s a little better than you are.

Source: Hardball Times

by 30-Year Old Cardboard

Joe Carter 2002 Fleer Move it Classic Series of Champions' Game Card-tolerant Bat

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by Stephen Wade

MORELIA, Mexico — Ai Miyazato was well moments after her third LPGA Tour christen of the flavour. She only started to race up when she began talking about Lorena Ochoa.

Miyazato photograph a 6-under 67 on Sunday to win the Tres Marias Championship, but was overshadowed by Ochoa’s last direct before stepping into retirement to heighten a people and blurry on her contribution establishment.

During the gold service on the 18th unripe, Miyazato penurious down crying as she thanked Ochoa. Ochoa, a few feet away, also rubbed tears from her eyes in astute sunlight on the mountainside orbit. Ochoa pick out Miyazato as her playing confederate for the first two rounds.

“I in need of to say thanks to Lorena,” Miyazato said. “I at bottom prize what she did for the LPGA and what she did for her power here in Mexico.”

“She is one of my overcome friends,” Miyazato said, commencement to cry. “I’m prospering to slip her.”

Miyazato, the 24-year-old Japanese matchless who swept the salt-crevice events in Thailand and Singapore after enchanting the Evian Masters last year in France for her first LPGA Perambulation name, finished at 19-under 273.

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