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...Yankees of 1963). To be sure, he gets his digs in along the way. He tells of Mantle showing up for a game "hung over out of his mind" and pushing little kids aside who wanted his autograph; of white umpires deliberately trying to embarrass Negro Umpire Emmett Ashford. He tells, too, of the way former Yankee Pitcher Whitey Ford conspired to load the ball with mud, or scuff it with a ring. "Ford," explains Bouton, "could make a mud ball drop, sail, break in, break out and sing When Irish Eyes Are Smiling...
...HAYWARD West Ashford, Conn...
...There is One great society alone on earth: The noble living and the noble dead. -William Wordsworth GERALD ASHFORD...
Whatever the case, Jigs does not quite have the ring of authenticity achieved by that small classic The Young Visiters, supposedly written at the turn of the century by nine-year-old Daisy Ashford. Nevertheless, Jigs makes some of the best out-loud reading since the original Pooh. "Sacraments are what you do in Church. What you do at home is something else," Virginia began the rambling essays she wrote for her boarding-school teacher. "When you are little and ugly somebody carries you in church on a pillow, and you come out a child of God and inheritor...
...consult an atlas you will notice that the town near the (proposed) British terminal is Ashford, not Ashbury, and that on the French side the town is Sangatte, not "St. Gatte." Indeed, as far as I know, the Calendar of Saints does not mention Saint Gatte...