This Personal Cosmic Game was requested by Kit Thornton and Mary Kathleen Mollohan, who currently live in West Virginia. Mr. Thornton, also known as The Devil's Advocate is a law intern in a public defender's office. He plays rugby, teaches self-defense and calls Ty Cobb his favorite reality baseball player. His idol is the Roman emperor and stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius (121-180 a.d.) Ms. Mollohan is also known as Special K and is a former college basketball player. Willie Mays is her favorite reality baseball player and she calls Ayn Rand (1905-1982) author and "objectivist" philosopher her idol. (Rand is also a rookie pitcher with the 1997 Alphatown Ionians.)

Together, Mr. Thornton and Ms. Mollohan have created the Best Defense Personal Cosmic Team which consists mostly of notable legal scholars and practicing attorneys. Their Field Manager is Earl Warren, and the team's General Manager is John Marshall; both were United States Supreme Court Chief Justices.

The Best Defense team selected CBA's Wonderland Warriors as their adversary. The Warriors are a team of military people: some good, some brilliant, some bad, some strange.

Lineup Cards

	Best Defense	Pos	Info
1	John Adams*	SS	Great speed - Quick to defend the "Boston Massacre" Defendants
2	F. Lee Bailey**	1B	Awesome tenacity - Will make pitchers throw strikes
3	Gerry Spense	3B	Mr. Consistency - Has never lost a criminal case
4	Thurgood Marshall	CF	Incredible Power - Brown v. Board of Ed. - a 550ft. Home Run!
5	Clarence Darrow	RF	The most feared hitter in the game
6	M.K. Mollohan	C	A natural leader and field general. Can hold this club together
7	Lawrence Tribe	LF	Smartest outfielder ever seen. Often catches runners off base
8	Alan Dershowitz	2B	Made the team on defense alone - Gold glove, no stick
9	Kit Thornton	P	Blazing heat and a feared screwball

*-Adams is currently an inactive member of the Washington Presidents
**-Bailey formerly played for the deactivated Simpson City Arbuckles.

Wonderland Warriors	Pos	Info
1	Omar Bradley	2B	General, United States Army
2	R. D. Camp	CF	Captain, United States Marine Corps
3	Moshe Dayan	3B	General, Israeli Defense Force
4	Vo Nguyen Giap	LF	General, North Vietnamese Army
5	David Hackworth	RF	Colonel, United States Army
6	Chester Nimitz	1B	Admiral, United States Navy
7	David Lownds	C	Colonel, United States Marine Corps
8	George Marshall	SS	General, United States Army
9	Sun Tzu Lin Pao	P	Chinese Philosopher Chinese Philosopher

Linescore

Inning	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Runs	Hits	Errors
Best Defense	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	3	12	0
Warriors	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	-	5	12	0

Scoresheet

Best Defense-3 at Warriors-5

KEY DP-Double Play; E-Error; FO-Fly Out; GO-Ground Out; HR-Homerun K-Strikeout; LO-Lineout; T-Triple; W-Walk; - Single; = Double

Boxscores

Best Defense-3 at Wonderland Warriors-5

KEY AB-At Bats; H-Hits; HR-Homeruns RBI-Runs Batted In; B AVE-Batting Average

Pitching Details

KEY W-Won; L-Lost; IP-Innings Pitched; H-Hits R-Runs ER-Earned Runs; W-Walks; K-Strikeouts

Game Notes

Homeruns	Omar Bradley Clarence Darrow
Triples	Thurgood Marshall
Doubles	Adams, Dershowitz, Mollohan, Spense Giap, Hackworth, Lownds

Errors	none
Doubleplays	Best Defense-3 Warriors-1
Left-on-Base	Best Defense-10 Warriors-6

Stolen Bases	none
Caught Stealing	none

Umpires	Susan Atkins, Ted Bundy, John W. Gacy
Game Time	2 hours, 46 minutes
Attendance	31,025

MCP

Most Cosmic Player (MCP)

David Lownds

Comments

This was a game that supports the argument that a good defense is good but a strong offense and crafty pitching are better. The Best Defense did in fact field a very good defensive team. Three double plays and some acrobatic fielding by Gerry Spense at thirdbase and Alan Dershowitz at secondbase make the team's name sensible. And it's not that the Best Defense didn't provide some offense. They did: four doubles, a triple and a booming homerun by Clarence Darrow provide enough evidence to prove that case.

But the mighty and crafty Warriors prevailed. Clutch hitting and smart pitching won the game for the Warriors. The Colonels Hackworth and Lownds (the latter was the game's MCP on the strength of his 4-for-4 day at the plate with 2 RBIs; the former hit the game winning RBI in the eighth inning) provided the necessary bat action. And Warrior reliever Lin Pao managed to stop the Best Defense's offense at the right times.

Fans of the Best Defense might think there's no justice in the game of the quadrature. That opinion is understood, especially when you get 12 hits. But if you strand 10 runners on the basepaths and you yield 12 hits to your opponent, well, double-plays help, but it's not going to be enough. Even so, this game illuminates that finely tuned balance found in the play of the game.

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