Word: beizbol
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...ought to We're journeyman journalist, and we're old and tired and cyniical, and there's some reason to suspect we might look into the Establishment someday. But in the meantime we're journeyman beizbol players. Yersterday afternoon, in Radcliffe Quad, we took the CRIMSON 22-21. The CRIMSON says we lost 23-2. The CRIMSON is full of what the NEW YORK Times calls...
...Russians, who claim to have invented everything from the steam engine to radar, also originated baseball-according to the Soviet magazine Smena, a publication of the Young Communist League. Beizbol, said Smena last week, is an "imitation" of lapta* which "was played in Russian villages before the United States...
...mayhem." Teams are called by such aggressive names as Tigrov and Piratov. A big-league player, if he is not killed in action, lasts only six or seven seasons; by that time he is "ruined in health and often also crippled." The capitalists squeeze huge profits out of beizbol, but the proletarian players are "in a condition of slavery . . . bought and sold and thrown out the door when they are no longer needed." Perhaps because the editors feared that readers might not swallow the whole story, Smena failed to mention that 1) players sometimes steal bases during a game...
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