Yes, very cute.
Mens SP, liner deep left nearly to fence. SS goes out to get the relay. Batter takes wide turn at 2nd as ball is coming in to SS who turns firing. I go set. Batter dives into 2nd, where 2nd basemen brings down a swipe tag just a bit before the ball got to his glove.
Next morning front page of sports section caption of photo of me with arms outstretched and both players looking up at me in horror and the ball still in the air after deflecting off me "Umpire signals runner safe at the ..."
It should have read "Umpire screams in a very high pitch while trying to remember what Bill Cosby said..."
I did not clip it out to save.
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