Word: charleyism
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NONFICTION 1. Travels with Charley, Steinbeck...
...then, on the very first play of the very first game, Third Baseman Charley Neal rushed in to field a slow grounder, grabbed the ball and threw it into right field. The St. Louis Cardinals won 7-0, and the Mets got two hits. By last week the Mets had scored only ten runs and collected only 43 base hits. In their first eight games, they piled up eight losses, one away from their league record of last season...
...Rossi walked only four himself, but three of those walks were turned into runs by the Lions' hitters. In the third inning Gene Chwerchak walked and John Cole singled him to third. Charley Butts laid down a perfect bunt single to score Chwerchak and give the Lions a 1-0 lead...
...Breyer displays superb comic skill in his switches from Charley to aunt and back to Charley. Boy, is he ever funny. Even his face is funny. He doesn't have to say anything to get a laugh. But he also possesses a great sense of timing and gift for mimicry, and in addition, he can almost sing. When he announced his affection for his girl Amy (Debbie Trowbridge) in the famous "Once in Love With Amy" the audience couldn't applaud enough...
...other young couple in this play, Dean Stolber (as Charley's roommate) and Betsy Wilson are not nearly as exciting as Breyer and Trowbridge, but then their parts are not as colorful either. While Stolber tried very hard to contribute verve, his perpetual motion occasionally jarred and his love scenes dragged...