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...could feel it breathing as I hustled to bat," he recalls, "or maybe it was smothering from inhaling dandruff." Anyway, Casey walked to the batter's box brandishing five bats as if he were going to knock down the ballpark. The stands booed. Casey stepped to the plate, waited until the pitcher was about to throw, then called time. Elaborately he went through the motions of getting a cinder out of his eye. The Brooklyn stands roared with fury...
...Bullet Bob" Turley, Casey's best righthander, can be as wild as an ensign with a .45; he has a tendency to aim the ball when he gets behind a batter, and may be a setup for Dodger power...
AMERICAN LEAGUE Team: Cleveland (by ½ game) Pitcher: Byrne, New York (13-4) Batter: Kaline, Detroit (.350) Runs Batted In: Jensen, Boston; Boone, Detroit (102) Home Runs: Mantle, New York...
NATIONAL LEAGUE Team: Brooklyn (by 14 games) Pitcher: Newcombe, Brooklyn (19-4) Batter: Ashburn, Philadelphia (.336) Runs Batted In: Snider, Brooklyn (128) Home Runs: Kluszewski, Cincinnati...
...George Orwell's porcine commissar whose classic formula was: "All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others." Similarly, Author Hodgkinson has fun with the word peace (mir) and the bellicose roarings of those who advocate it, including the Czech miner who promised to "batter the warmongers to death with peace...