![]() ![]() A pitcher forĪnd as rangy as a long-distance runner. Spattered overalls and a blue-striped shirt With his wife, Martha Johnson Beattie '76, Inside, Jimīeattie '76 pads barefoot into the living These are the stories of two Dartmouth athletes, both of the class of 1976, who pursued that essence beyond graduation - one in baseball, the other in football. ![]() "You get out there on that grass and it comes down to two people - a pitcher and a man with a bat in his hands - and there don't nothing else matter." The words of Stud Cantrell, a character in Paul Hemphill's book, Long Gone, sum up the essence not just of baseball but of all sport - of the simple confrontation, the challenge offered and accepted.
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