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...Ernest Hemingway has called indispensable to the greatest writers, awaited Tolstoy at the siege of Sevastopol during the Crimean War. He commanded a battery of guns at the Fourth Bastion, most exposed point in the city's defenses. Tolstoy wrote the first of his Sevastopol Sketches in a dugout under bombardment. At first he liked the whole thing: "The constant charm of danger, observing the soldiers . . . are so agreeable that I do not wish to leave here. . . ." But before the siege was over he changed his mind. Though he hated physical violence, he beat his soldiers in fits...
...Bucky himself, he hardly seemed MacPhail's type of manager (the Boss is an old admirer of blustery Leo Durocher). The answer may be that the 1947 Yankees will be run by a triumvirate: MacPhail handing down orders from his ivory tower; Harris passing them on in the dugout. The man on the coaching lines (at third base) will be Coach Chuck Dressen, recently hired away from the Dodgers, and one of the best detail men in baseball...
...Wisconsin; winters it was duck hunting in the Illinois River, and Helen had a small shotgun made specially for her. During baseball season, Helen got up from her school desk promptly at 2 p.m. every day, strode out to meet her father. Their box was directly over the dugout, and Helen knew all the St. Louis players in both leagues...
...fanned. The next man up, Clark, hit an easy grounder to Sullivan at third. In an effort to cut the runner off scoring from third, Sullivan threw the ball in to the plate. The peg was good, but it hit DeKalb in the back and rolled into the Crimson dugout, allowing Nevens to score also, and sending Clark to third from where he scored on a squeeze play by Finnegan. Towne ended the inning by striking...
While on duty aboard [ship] in Leyte Gulf a short time prior to the Lingayen invasion, we had many native dugout canoes around our ship, their occupants, of course, being mainly interested in food and clothing. In one such canoe was what appeared to be an entire family, the mother of which was sitting in the stern, paying no attention to the bartering going on, but rather being apparently deeply engrossed in a copy of TIME. I tried to attract her attention with no luck as she was apparently thoroughly enjoying what she was reading...