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Nathan was aglow. He had just recently decided to get out in the streets and mix with "real" humanity. Right off the bat he gets an honest, seemingly intelligent, vicarious queer. He respected Scott...

Author: By William L. Ripley, | Title: Choosing Fruit | 3/17/1969 | See Source »

...bind each leg from ankle to thigh with 7-ft. strips of foam-rubber bandages "to hold things together." Even so, in his final years, he was reduced to hobbling around the field like a cart horse. And at the plate, each time he swung the bat he noticeably winced and grunted with pain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Mantle of Greatness | 3/14/1969 | See Source »

...challenged Ronald Reagan to a duel and I reiterate that challenge tonight. . . . And I give him his choice of weapons. He can use a gun, a knife, a baseball bat or a marshmallow. And I'll beat him to death with a marshmallow...

Author: By Clyde Lindsay, | Title: The Man | 3/13/1969 | See Source »

Chris Gallagher, now eighth leading scorer in Harvard history and 51 points away from the seventh spot, had 19 in bat first Brown game to lead Harvard...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Cagers Open Final Weekend at Brown, Aim for League First Division Finish | 2/28/1969 | See Source »

...Aiming for greatness, he often achieved only length. When he tries to make his characters Greek-tragic, they appear just plain accident-prone. The notoriously awkward prose of The Iceman Cometh inspired Mary McCarthy to remark: "You cannot write a Platonic dialogue in the style of Casey at the Bat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Will to be Great | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

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