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...Hamp, a young cobbler from Islington, the only survivor of his World War I platoon. He is a prisoner in a dugout cell, waiting to be tried for desertion, while outside rumble the guns of the Passchendaele offensive. Picking his way past a detail that is digging out a flooded latrine comes the officer assigned to defend the deserter: correct, unsmiling Captain Hargreaves...
...sketch and later recalled it the tranquillity of his studio. But there they are, for all time, transfixed on a roseate, smoky day: the fur trader puffing his pipe, his half-breed son derisively peering at the artist, and the huddled bear cub chained to the bow of the dugout. The river is the Missouri; the year is 1845, and the painter, who by his art has enshrined a timeless moment by on the frontier, is George Caleb Bingham (see opposite page). It is also American landscape drawing at its best accurate, knowledgeable, architectural and withal a key link...
...loosen the cramped muscles of his arthritic pitching arm. Finally, he tried a tentative fast ball, then a second and a third-and the crowd began to buzz as one after another the Cubs marched up to the plate, took their cuts, and marched straight back to the dugout...
...ball game was a bloop double by Los Angeles' Lou Johnson with two out in the seventh. It was also the last. If Koufax didn't know he had a no-hitter going, he must have wondered why nobody talked to him in the dugout. He struck out the side in the eighth, again in the ninth, and when he fogged one last fast ball past Pinchhitter Harvey Kuenn, he danced a little jig on the mound. He had won his 22nd game, 1-0. His 14 strikeouts gave him a total of 332 for the season-just...
...lose 120 times in a single season. They finished dead last in 1962, 1963 and 1964, and they are a cinch for the cellar again this year. But there was Casey yakking away in Stengelese, calling his pitchers "plumbers" in front of everybody and standing on the dugout steps shouting "Whommy! Whommy!" to put the hex on opposing teams. So the fans flocked to the park-1,732,597 of them last year, almost 500,000 more than the Yankees drew while winning the American League pennant...