On the paved shore of the Harlem Meer, one of 6 ponds in city parks stocked with bullhead catfish by the State Department of Environmental Conservation, boys fish with improvised equipment--a striped sock for a fishing line, a set of keys for a sinker.
By Ian Frazier The New Yorker, July 31 , 1978P. 25 On the paved shore of the Harlem Meer, one of 6 ponds in city parks stocked with bullhead catfish by the State Department of Environmental Conservation, boys fish with improvised equipment--a striped sock for a fishing line, a set of keys for a sinker.
The New Yorker, July 31 , 1978P. 25 On the paved shore of the Harlem Meer, one of 6 ponds in city parks stocked with bullhead catfish by the State Department of Environmental Conservation, boys fish with improvised equipment--a striped sock for a fishing line, a set of keys for a sinker.
But he credited Duncan with showing him the importance of using a sinker, a pitch he said he had never thrown before.
He tried to learn as much as he could from two-time Cy Young Award winner Halladay, especially the tricks of throwing a sinker.
Giambi, who had homered twice in a weekend sweep of Cleveland, yanked a sinker from Bradford off the end of the bat, bouncing it through the hole on the right side of the infield as Cabrera charged to third.
Tanyon Sturtze threw 97 pitches in relief of Contreras, using a sinker he has refined with the pitching coach Mel Stottlemyre to work four and two-thirds scoreless innings.
On a count of 2-2, Gomuscledcled a sinker well over the wall in left field.
BOBBY M. JONES started and went three innings, allowing two runs on four hits as he struggled with command of his new pitch, a sinker.
With impeccable command of his fastball, and a sinker he threw more often and with more authority, as the Yankees had asked him to do, Colon pitched as well as he had in a month.
The space elevator model is composed of a main spacecraft, a sinker mass and a massive cable connecting them.
