A profile of the Yuma Scorpions’ player/manager.

Nobody likes the pickoff throw. The fans detest it; I don’t know what the level of tolerance used to be, but at the game I attended last weekend, the crowd booed with every single toss to first. The statisticians hardly bother to track it. The analysts don’t care for it either, because of the way it hampers the rhythm of the ballgame and inserts dead air into the proceedings. Opposing coaches gnash their teeth as weary hurlers cast the ball back and forth to the first baseman, buying time for a reliever to limber up. The runners themselves can’t be too thrilled about having to dive back all the time, either.

An oral history of Major League:

Charlie Sheen: When I saw the script it wasn’t like catnip, it was like crack. I was going to a premiere, and I had a meeting with David in the morning, so I had the script in the limo, and I was late because I couldn’t put it down. Then I sat in my driveway for an hour to finish it. It was probably as good a script as Platoon, seriously.

He was the nation’s best high school pitcher, bound for the Florida Marlins and stardom. But Jeff Allison also had a drug addiction, and it nearly killed him.