Word: fannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon fan. I found myself doubting him even when he was telling the truth. It seems to me, however, that we've made our point and we should get off his case. It's not worth my time to carry around the pain and the bitterness, so I've forgiven the guy. I think that he knows what he did and that he'll never, ever forget it. That's good enough...
...claimed that he would rather write like Trollope than like Hawthorne. Trollope's novels, he said, "precisely suit my taste, solid and substantial, written on the strength of beef and through the inspiration of ale." Tolstoy said that "Trollope kills me, kills me with his excellence." A newer fan was an American Senator by the name of John Kennedy, who was seen reading The American Senator after he won the Democratic nomination in 1960. Former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan always kept a Trollope novel on his night table. He marveled at the paradox that Trollope's novels...
That was once what Baseball Fan and Author Roger Angell (The Summer Game; 1972) calls one of the "sunlit verities of the game." Not any more. Disputes between owners and players have delayed spring training twice in the past five years - precisely the troubled period recaptured in Five Seasons. This bittersweet collection of baseball reporting recounts the fading of other summer truths. Many clubs have ripped up the grass in the ballparks and installed artificial surfaces ("the cheaper spread"). Pitchers in the American League no longer take their cuts at the plate; some thing called a designated hitter does that...
...return to investment in player skills varies widely among teams, depending on a number of factors, including market size and intensity of fan loyalty. Clubs blessed with large potential audiences, like Los Angeles and New York, or diehard fans, like Boston, generally find it more advantageous to secure a stronger squad than their competitors, reserve clause...
...improved club record (and there is every indication that this is true), a $200,000 a year salary, although admittedly a colossal amount, is hardly outrageous or ludicrous. But, how can one honestly say that a ballplayer is really worth that much money. Such salaries cause the baseball fan to either shake his head in disgust or rummage through his closet for the old Little League equipment and get in condition for next year's amateur draft...