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Rogers Hornsby, Ty Cobb, Jesse ("the Crab") Burkett. Others use the book to settle arguments. Who struck out more than any other player? Mickey Mantle, who whiffed 1,710 times during his 8,102 official times at bat. Which pitcher gave up the most bases on balls? Early Wynn, who issued 1 ,775 passes in his 23-year career. (He also struck out 2,334 batters.) Many encyclopediasts pass the winter months compiling their own alltime, all-star teams. Unfortunately, most of the casts are depressingly alike: Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio, Cy Young, et al. Recently...
...such observation inform Croce's asides about dancers. Of Suzanne Farrell's second performance in Bournonville Divertissements, she writes: "She was less noticeably nervous (she'd stopped bouncing her wrists, an infallible sign)." Of Edward Villella in Pulcinella: "He goes through the piece like a speeding crab, as loose as Groucho." Of Nureyev in Le Corsaire: "At the end ... he slams himself to the floor at the ballerina's feet and yearns upward from the small of his back. No one else does it so well." One is ready to go out at once...
...entertainment package, The Immigrants could easily be read, and eventually seen, under the title Uphill, Downhill. The principal setting is San Francisco, where Daniel Lavette battles his way from crab fisherman to business tycoon. "He had come out of nothing and he had made himself a king, a veritable emperor," writes Fast with stagy solemnity. "He ruled a fleet of great passenger liners, an airline, a majestic department store, a splendid resort hotel, property, land, and he dispensed the food of life to hundreds of men and women who labored at his will...
They are long-lived, docile and sociable. They do not have to be licensed, neutered or inoculated. They make no noise and they don't bite. To many Americans who have shelled out up to $3.50 each for the critters, the tropical hermit crab (Coenobita Clypeatus) is by any measure the perfect...
...legged, up-to-3-in.-wide crustaceans are being marketed nationwide by The Great American Crab Co., Inc. of Orlando, Fla., which boasts it will sell some 750,000 in its first year. They will eat peanut butter and jelly, dog food, cereal, lettuce or fruit, though GAC would naturally prefer to have crab fanciers feed them its "special dinner mix" at $2 per 3-oz. shaker. Many owners buy fancy shells to serve as crab pads, coral trees for them to play in and, of course, leashes. Though they have less personality than, say, dolphins, fond owners aver that...