Fungo‪.‬

The tweener dropped in front of the Waste Management Inc. center fielder, and Mangieri's son still barely beat out the throw to first. Behind him in the dugout, old Cedric had started up muttering again. "Boy ain't got no wheels to speak of." This remark he punctuated by spitting a gob of coagulated sunflower seeds over the railing. "Moves his self like a carthorse with the lumbago." Mangieri gave the steal signal. His Little League coaching manual intimated that 60% of base runners score, given the proliferation of wild pitches and fielding incompetence. Observation didn't seem to hold true for this team, though.