Baseball pays St. Louis' Bob Gibson $40,000 a year, but that doesn't mean he has to make it complicated. "I can't stand heehawing around," says Pitcher Gibson, 29, "studying the catchers' signs, staring at the hitters all that jazz. My philosophy is to hum it in there, baby, and let's find out who's best them or me." Other pitchers play around with windups, curves, sliders, screwballs and such. Not Gibson. He uses hardly any windup at all, simply rears back and fireswith a great paroxysm of flailing arms and legs that carries him halfway to the plate. He...
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