Somewhere in the archives of Baseball America, there’s a story by an Italian journalist named Giovanna de la something or other, and she attempts to verify, through old box scores and personal testimony, an at-bat that supposedly took place in the Venezuelan Winter League in the early 1980s. Technically, it was a plate appearance. Ended up HBP, but that only happened after four hours. Three different pitchers. Foul ball after foul ball and a series of minor delays instigated by, depending on the version, a pigeon or a goose or a troupial (or, according to one old man she interviewed just outside a prison in El Dorado, a