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...Speaker, Babe Ruth, Sparky Lyle, Ernie Shore, Dutch Leonard, Duffy Lewis, Cecil Cooper, the heroes whose promise was traded for cash or mediocrity. Back, further into the piles of faded photographs and daguerreotypes of old-looking men in baggy, dusty uniforms, there's Lou Boudreau, Luis Aparicio, Orlando Cepeda, Ellston Howard, the heroes that Red Sox management fielded in the waning years of their lives. The Picture History of the Boston Red Sox has all the pictures, and the folksie, barstool chatter extracts the Bostonese from personages like: Buck O'Brien, Smokey Joe Wood, Sad Sam Jones, Jumping Joe Dugan...
...chance to reply. "My name is Ellston Barnes," my visitor said. "Of course, that's not my real name. It's merely the pseudonym which I sign to my poetry. I'm a poet...
...Ellston Barnes took me by my tweed lapel. "The real writers are coming West," he said. There was Rexroth, and a fellow named Kerouac (who hitch-hikes), and Robinson Jeffers, who roams up and down the beach screaming in the night. Henry Miller's America...
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