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That's part of why Brayton is a baseball player. Why isn't he out making money? (At Bristol he is paid $900 per month, the month he works--he has driven a taxi in the off-season; now he works for his father.) "This is the only thing I ever really worked hard at, the only thing I always knew wasn't going to be given to me because I went to such-and-such a school. If I make it, I'll make it on my own--if anything, my background will count against...
...cynic might suggest that it is exactly because Brayton comes from a privileged background that he can afford to follow up the chancy business of flirting with a baseball career--he's got an out if things fall through. But he's too serious for that...
...Three Times" between innings and the "bullpen" is likely to be a bench near the left field line. The Eastern League has a grueling schedule, too: 40 games in 144 days, April 10 to September 1, no days off. Once in a great while a local reporter will approach Brayton, and produce a "Patrician Who Can Pitch!" story with the Harvard angle, but there's previous little attention, too. Brayton says he sends what seems like 1000 schedules to his friends, begging them to come watch him play, but sometimes there are long stretches in strangle middle-sized cities where...
...like high school, you know. You put on your uniform in your own locker room and get in the bus and go somewhere and play and drive back all sweaty." When you play, "sometimes you feel like a caged animal, people throwing peanuts at you." But who's complaining? Brayton's never one to let a few gripes grow to defiance...
...Them" again. The most rebellious thing Brayton ever did was to hint at threatening to quit when he was on Winston-Salem. Soon afterwards he was called up to Bristol. But always the paranoid, he worries that "They" only wanted to appease...