Word: cast-off
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...understands that, and writes about his own submission to his managers and owners with wry understanding. Bouton kept his intelligence under wraps for a year, trying so hard to conform to standard opinions and life styles among players and managers that he even tried to like Fred Talbot, another cast-off pitcher of less than liberal opinion, who constantly sounded off about "sending the ???ers and the Commies and the Jews back to Africa." In the end, Bouton lost the battle. Finding it impossible to survive the humiliation he exploded at the owner of the Seattle ball-club...
...outward signs, there was no indication that Northeastern would be any different. The school is so poor it couldn't afford to bring its own flag to put on top of the stadium, and their band arrived in cast-off Salvation Army uniforms. When the captains met for the coin-toss, the yearbook sent a photographer onto the field to get a picture of the event-ostensibly for display at the Monday morning assembly...
...agony was in the Red Sox dugout. Four pitchers gave the Cards ten hits and five runs, and once again, Lou Brock was the messenger of doom. He scored his third and fourth runs of the series, the last on a line single by Roger Maris, that Yankee cast-off who now hustles like a rookie for the Cards, with three hits and three RBIs in the first three games of the series. The real glory boy, though, was Righthander Nelson Briles, 24, until last week a journeyman speed-bailer with only four complete games all season. He allowed...
...Cast-Off Antlers. The poster for an off-Broadway production of Arthur Miller's View from the Bridge was done after Shahn had seen the play at rehearsal. He found it "very powerful, very moving." Shahn's watercolor, Branches of Water or Desire, reflects his admiration for the poetry of his son-in-law, Alan Dugan, who won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1962 with his first volume. The picture illustrates one of the poems, which begins...
Imagine that the fast life of a bird sang in the branches of the cold cast-off antlers of a stag...