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...Cooperstown, N.Y. From the start Stengel had the gift that Merlin enjoyed in The Once and Future King: he began decrepit and grew younger. The man who was too stiff to play at 35 was loose enough to manage in the majors and minors, learning, listening, coining the tortured syntax that would soon be labeled Stengelese. He perpetually refused to recognize players by name, only as "my big guy" or "that fella on first"; he told nonstop, outrageous stories and then claimed, "You could look...
...incredible panoply of solidly imaginative caricatures. All of this, as well as the moral aura surrounding a proud and gentlemanly game debased, is milked for all the socio-cultural comment it's worth. There is a Moby Dick thoroughness about the subject: Roth did a lot of homework in Cooperstown, and there is an ambling love of detail for its own sake that recalls Melville's novel (which, by the way, Roth calls "five hundred pages of blubber"). The innuendoes of the game itself and the episodic richness of the narrative blot out attempts at conventional literary metaphor, as when...
...Harvard golf team lost to Penn by one stroke in the ECAC Fall Golf Championship at Cooperstown. N.Y. last Saturday...
...Cooperstown course was considerably harder than the Dartmouth course, where the qualifying rounds were held last week. Par is 72 at Cooperstown, while par at Dartmouth was 70. The cold, wet weather and strong winds probably also added to the high scores at the championship...
...Cooperstown course also has a lake that becomes a formidable water hazard on the final three holes, and accounted for Captain Berry's 86 for the 18-hole tournament...