Word: big
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slipped ignominiously and sat down hard on the infield grass, while Sox runners scampered around the bases. Scouting reports had assured Dodger pitchers that Chicago's muscleman First Baseman Ted Kluszewski (6 ft. 2 in., 245 Ibs.), 35, could no longer pull the home-run ball to right. Big Klu promptly pulled two homers to right, drove in five runs. Final score...
...line, then flash for the beach on a whim. They can ignore the most ingenious lures bobbed past their noses by experts, then hit something splashed into the water by a novice. Toughest of all to figure are the canny ancients that go 60 lbs. and higher. "The big ones, they travel by themselves," said Oscar. "They like a big rock, and they settle under it for a few days. You got to think months ahead to which rock that big one is liable to pick...
Derby Days. Last week, along the Vineyard coast, Oscar was carefully working all the likely rocks that he had spotted in half a century of stalking the striper. The big ones were running in their annual fall migration from Maine back to the Chesapeake Bay spawning grounds they had left last spring. Determined to intercept them, Oscar and fellow zealots were getting up in the middle of the night and tramping 100 miles of Vineyard beaches in the island's 14th annual Striped Bass Derby, which has drawn 1,200 fishermen from as far as California and Nova Scotia...
Oscar's plugs hit the surface with short, sharp slaps. "The big ones, they get nerved up by the noise," he explained, "and maybe that's the best time-when they don't think, and want to get rid of the damned thing, and hit it. If he hits, he's a fighter. You see that pole bend down and that striper taking all your line and going out 500 ft., pulling like a bull, making circles, doubling back. Then he quiets down, and you think you've got him. You start bringing...
...three weeks the derby has run, Oscar's best is only a 20-pounder. He is undiscouraged. Says he: "What can be better than trying to work it out in your head, and in your heart, too, about the big fish in the ocean? It's what keeps a man alive. Worrying about stripers ain't going to hurt. No, sir. Only give a lot of walking and smelling and good living. Worrying about stripers, you don't grow so's you're ready to bark and quit on life...