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Julie VognarPeter Esterhazy (commissioner of baseball) had flown out to L.A. to attend the final three games of the season between the Vikings fitional) and the As (real). He wanted to be on hand for the post-game festivities and the presentation of the trophy for the divisdional championship.
....the two teams having split the first two games, the winner of tonight's game would clinch. The game was exciting right from the start.. The As loaded the bases with one out in the top of the first. Charlie Gonze had Al De Mun wave the infield in at the corners and at double-play depth up the middle. Randy (shortstop) and D.J. (second baseman) cheated a few feet closer to eachother.
D.J. held up his glove and signaled one finger to his shortstop, which meant that he would take a throw from the pitcher. Randy nodded...
The ball was hit past the pitcher just to the right of the second-base bag. The two steps D.J. had cheated made the difference. Diving, he backhanded the ball on the short hop, and while still in the air, shoveled it to Randy coming across the bag. The shortstop tickled the base with his toe and threw to first a microsecond before jumping to elude the upturned spikes of the runner coming in hard to break up the double play.
The umpire hesitated for a second, then threw up his hand. The place exploded. Randy casually brushed off his uniform and trotted in just behind his second baseman...
You won't see a better double play than that," Gene Jaress enthused to Fritz Esterhyazy.
The commissioner nodded agreement. "it's as if those two were an extension of eachother."
Who knows, maybe some of you have even read it...
02-27-2006, 06:59 AM
from "The Dreyfus Affair"
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