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...Richlin '01 (Letters, April 3) misattributed the origin of the famous baseball maxim "Hit 'em where they ain't." While Pee Wee Reese successfully employed that strategy, it was "Wee" Willie Keeler who coined the phrase almost a century ago. The 5-foot, 4-inch Keeler led the National League in batting in 1897 with a phenomenal .432 average and is the shortest player in the Hall of Fame...
...longtime and loyal baseball fan that I write you to express my anger at the recent caption above a photograph of Ted Williams and Wade Boggs. The caption read "Hit 'em where they ain't." This phrase is attributable to Pee Wee Reese, a slap-hitting shortstop for the Brooklyn Dodgers in the '40s and '50s, and has absolutely no relevance to Ted Williams...
...enough diatribe. Drink if you got 'em...
...marketability of scholarly studies in addition to their scholarly quality, it is no easy task to get a book published at all. In the end, it seems to be another of those issues of moderation. Humility is well and good, but a bit of that "up-and-at-'em" aggression wouldn't hurt either...
SHOULD WINNone of 'em:still outraged at the fact that The Ice Storm was so egregiously ignored. Basinger's fine, but frankly the least of the outstanding cast of L.A. Confidential. (Then again, that's what I thought about Juliette Binoche and The English Patient last year.) The other contenders suffer from sketchily written parts, with the arguable exception of Julianne Moore (Boogie Nights...