If pitcher and star hitter Boley—the league’s best player and certainly on par with Snider, Mays and Mantle—has any weakness, it is a lack of modesty, but the team owner’s uncle has a plan to address that involving the future of baseball.
Don’t you see? He’s chasing the outfield off the field. He wants to face the next two men without any outfield! That’s Satchell Paige’s old trick, only he never did it except in exhibitions where who cares? But that Boley—

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  1. “The Celebrated No-Hit Inning” by Frederik Pohl, Fantastic Universe, September 1956.
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Frederik Pohl