Word: edwin
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...fact is that proponents of the rabbit-ball theory had no argument in 1926, and have none now. Says Edwin L. Parker, president of A. G. Spalding Bros., the major leagues' sole baseball purveyors since 1876: "Today's ball and the one that Ruth hit are identical. Period." Nor has the manufacturing process in Spalding's Chicopee, Mass, factory appreciably changed. Each ball must conform to rigid specifications, set decades ago by the leagues. Its horsehide cover conceals a cork core wrapped in two layers of rubber and 490 machine-wound yards of five kinds of yarn...
Reportedly, Edwin O. Reischauer, U.S. Ambassador to Japan and former professor of Far Eastern languages, wired President Nathan M. Pusey after the incident, "The tenors sounded like hell, after you bounced three of them...
...CORRESPONDENCE OF WALT WHITMAN, VOLUMES I & II (394 & 387 pp.)-Edited by Edwin Haviland Miller-New York University Press ($ 10 each...
...shapes and forms but areas of color: if the color was right, all else would follow. "Think of color instead of sand. Think of color instead of clothes. Color first and house after, not house first and color after," he said. Last week his most famous student, Edwin Dickinson, recalled: "More than anyone else, Hawthorne appreciated the fact that plane relationships are better expressed through comparative values of color than through drawing." Adds Abstractionist Hans Hofmann, who became a part of the Provincetown colony in 1934: "As a painter, Hawthorne cast aside every doctrine-so that he might surpass...
...figure they are winding the rubber in the ball tighter. They must even be using elastic glue, too." Baseball manufacturers huffily denied that souped-up balls are the reason. "There has been no change in the construction of the ball in the last quarter-century," says Spalding President Edwin L. Parker, whose company has made balls for the majors ever since the leagues were formed. "The coefficient of restitution is the same today as it was 25 years ago." Translation: today's ball has no more bounce than the 1936 version...