Word: cassuto
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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More than 1,100 baseball fans, many in jerseys and caps, rubbed elbows with semioticians, psychobiographers and a smattering of baseball old-timers. They listened as Leonard Cassuto of Fordham University's English department deconstructed Ruth and "the politics of greatness." "Is baseball's canon-making procedure subjective?" Cassuto wondered. "Or does the statistically measurable quality of baseball make it possible to prove or measure Ruth's greatness?" Not surprisingly, there were many adherents to the latter proposition. William Jenkinson, a self-described investigative historian, attempted to quantify Ruth's home-run prowess, dropping such impressive phrases as "drag coefficient...
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