Keystone Kids (2011)
“They won it decisively. Winning a doubleheader on his first afternoon in charge was better still. They won those two games as a team, as a unit, something they hadn’t been lately. Now we’ve got a manager, everyone seemed to be thinking. Now we’ve got a real manager; now we’ll go places.
It was the rookie, Klein, whose lusty two bagger won the opener in the ninth and who, with the help of his keen-witted manager, saved the second game. The boy was good. He had a pair of shoulders behind his bat and back of his throws. He had more ginger than old Stansworth. He kept the pitchers alert by the manner in which he pegged the ball back to them. Also he had a head, and that day he showed he could use it in the pinches. The pinch came in the ninth of the second game, the sort of thing that often happens in a ballgame. Everything goes right, everything breaks your way—up to a point. Then nothing clicks; the play that worked a few innings before doesn’t come off; the player who made a wonderful ...stop the previous inning lets a ball through his legs or misses a signal in a crisis.MoreLess
It was the rookie, Klein, whose lusty two bagger won the opener in the ninth and who, with the help of his keen-witted manager, saved the second game. The boy was good. He had a pair of shoulders behind his bat and back of his throws. He had more ginger than old Stansworth. He kept the pitchers alert by the manner in which he pegged the ball back to them. Also he had a head, and that day he showed he could use it in the pinches. The pinch came in the ninth of the second game, the sort of thing that often happens in a ballgame. Everything goes right, everything breaks your way—up to a point. Then nothing clicks; the play that worked a few innings before doesn’t come off; the player who made a wonderful ...stop the previous inning lets a ball through his legs or misses a signal in a crisis.MoreLess
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