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When the umpire disallowed this, Meeham rushed to the scene to claim the ball was fair afer all. He soon shifted his ground to the stronger plea that the infield fly rule should be in force and the batter ruled automatically out. The umpire's apparent answer to this was, first of all, that he hadn't invoked the infield fly rule, which is left to his descretion, and secondly, that the rule didn't apply because the ball had bounced foul...
...book, the significant part of the plot takes place in the form of a flashback, imaginatively set up by the use of sliding backdrop. The action moves from the present to the late 1920's without an obtrusive break, from Westchester to a Massachusetts town named Clyde (presumably fashioned afer Newburyport...
...Afer the usual amount of deliberate thought, however, the idea rather grows on one. It is perfectly true that the Yard has always been considered complete--sacred territory, free from the spade of the laborer and the hammer of the stonemason. But that does not mean that it need always remain so. The new buildings are well placed, and their design is in harmony with the best of the existing Colonial Yard architecture...