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grinned boyishly and pawed the grass with his front hoof.
"I'm gonna play in the big leagues," he announced proudly.

"What does Hagger say about all this?" I wanted to know.

"Why don't you ask him?" Greene answered smugly.

Professor Hagger must have observed my arrival, because
he came out of the farmhouse to join us. When Greene
introduced me. he said, "So the press is onto this already!
You don't waste any time."

"Danny's a go-getter." Green confirmed. "One of these
days he'll cover a story before it happens."

"Has he ever played ball?" 1 asked the professor. "Is he
any good at it?"

"His family apparently played a version of baseball,'*
Hagger responded. "He remembers it as a child."

"I'm good," Mark Eques answered for himself. "They
wouldn't let me run in the marathon but they can't stop me
now."

"He has tremendous speed in the outfield," Professor
Hagger confirmed. "Virtually nothing gets by him. His base-
running is superb too. We're still working on his hitting."

"What do you think, Roscoe?" I asked Greene.

"I think he has unlimited potential. Young, clean-cutЧ
people will flock to the games just to see him play."

"The other managers will never allow it," I predicted.

"We've already got the courts behind us. Let the other
clubs go out and hire their own centaur."

Mine was the first exclusive interview with Mark Eques on
his signing with the Yankees, and for a week or two it waз
quite a story. The other major league clubs grumbled, of
course, until New York agreed to share with them the addi-
tional revenues Mark's appearance was expected to generate.
So, after a month of hoopla and further training, the centaur
took the field for a July 4th doubleheader against the Boston
Red Sox. I was there, of course, covering Boston on the road
as I usually did, but so was just about every sportswriter in

6 Edward D. Hoch