《Outpost When Iron-Arm McPherson Took the Mound 》作者：- Mike Resnick【EPUB

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When Iron-Arm McPherson Took the Mound* * * * * I still remember him when he was just a kid (said Big Red), making a name for himself out in the Quinellus Cluster. They said he was the fastest thing on two feet, and that he'd break every base-stealing record in the books. I took that kind of personally, since I'm pretty fast myself --or at least I used to be, before I blew out my left knee and broke my right thigh and ankle during my next-to-last season of murderball. (I'll bet you didn't know it, but I took my name from two of the greatest racehorses ever, Man o' War and Secretariat. The press gave each of them the nickname of Big Red.) Anyway, I made it my business to head out that way and see if this McPherson kid was as good as his press clippings. First time up, the kid bunted and beat the throw, then stole second, third, and home, and he was still looking for more bases to steal when the roar of the crowd finally died down. Did the same thing the second time he was up. Bunted his way onto first base a third time --and then it happened. There was a pickoff play that got him leaning the wrong way, and suddenly he fell to the