Two-Run Triple I called it a “Nicky Hit,” he said, “a late-swing, opposite-field, extra-base hit. Whenever one of my players got one of those, I called it a Nicky Hit. When they looked at me confused, it just gave me the opportunity to talk about that game. By Tony Tedeschi
Beginning in my early teens, I started scribbling stories in a speckled notebook I kept in my school bag. I brought it out whenever I had free time during breaks, in my classes and after, writing down my observations on just about anything. Becoming a protagonist in my own story, however, was not something I’d experienced until the story I was about to share with Billy Boylan. Our paths converged in late August of 1955, on a baseball diamond across the street from my home in the Astoria section of New York City’s Borough of Queens.
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