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...DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak of 1941. The Ted Williams of 1941 was the game's last .400 hitter. Pitcher Cy Young's record of 511 victories has held for two generations. This permanence extends to the game's oddballs, men like Casey Stengel, who once tipped his hat to the crowd and released a bird that was nesting in his hair; Bobo Holloman, who pitched only one complete game in the majors-and that one a no-hitter. There are players whose names alone could render them immortal: Eli Grba, Fenton Mole, Eppa Rixey...
...speechwriter for President Richard Nixon. A former associate editor of America magazine and a defeated antiwar Republican candidate for the Senate from Rhode Island in 1970, McLaughlin became a vocal supporter of Nixon's Viet Nam strategy. This has prompted Jesuit William Van Etten Casey of Massachusetts' College of the Holy Cross to call him "a Judas...
...title of the novel is taken from Siegfried Sassoon: "Does it matter? -losing your legs? .../ For people will always be kind,/ And you need not show that you mind/ When the others come in after hunting/ To gobble their muffins and eggs." The significance is that Casey, like Sheed himself, was crippled by polio as a boy. It seems to be this affliction that focuses his energy on politics, or, as Sam Perkins eventually sees it, on a compulsion to see healthy people brought to their knees. The novel's main concern, however, is the cloudy question of whether...
This is a Catholic novel, which complicates the situation. Tangled spirals of barbed and rusty religion crowd the Manhattan apartment in which Casey lives with his parents as a young man. It does not seem a particularly promising spiritual beginning, and yet Casey's Catholicism marks him in a way that is not necessarily negative. By the end of the novel, Perkins thinks that Casey wants to be God, but the possibility appears to exist that Casey merely and profoundly wants to obey...
...glass. (He has dismissed book reviewing as a couple of insights and "a few simple waltz steps.") Unlike most stylistic acrobats, he is quite capable of writing a dozen plain sentences in a row if dazzle seems inappropriate. Thus, when he describes the reaction to one of Casey's speeches, it is the scene, and not the author's splendid suppleness, that lingers in the mind: "And when it was over, they exploded with a passion that would have sent Hitler to bed happy. 'My God, he's one of us. He's against...