His team had just won the Southwest conference baseball championship for the 31st time in 42 years, but the University of Texas' Coach August Bibb Falk, 58, sounded like a man who had hot heard the score. "It's a 'five out' team," he snarled around the butt of his cigar. "Five men don't get on base enough to count. Besides that, we don't have any power. Why, we have a shortstop and second baseman hitting .300—that is, they're hitting .150 apiece."
"What about next year?" asked a wellwisher, trying to ease the agony. "The...
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