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...four years, National League batsmen had been trying to fathom Rip Sewell's pet pitch. Rip called it an ephus ball after an old crap-shooting phrase, ephusiphus-ophus; sportswriters called it a blooper. Whatever its name, it was lobbed up to the plate, fat and inviting, with lots of backspin-and, if hit, usually popped up high in the air to the second-baseman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Best | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

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