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...extremely multiple on offense." Gatto said. "We feel we have to fool people because we're not good enough to roll over them. We do a lot of the same things as (Crimson Coach) Joe (Restic), but not quite as well--we're not quite as imaginative...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Vic Gatto: Doing the Impossible | 11/8/1979 | See Source »

...fool. The management that traded him to Montreal, that benched him during the gasping stretch of the 1978 season in favor of Pawtucket sweetmeat, was. With more than 50 years worth of cameras and newsclips and Causeway St. anecdotes, there's Tris 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...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Heroes and Fools | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...Sonny, every time the fool thing comes around, the snow gets deeper and the horses get darker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Hampshire: Deeper Snow and Darker Horses | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...Pains was a 1947 collection of mock-Thoreauvian japes inspired by the author's four dec ades of semirustication on 100 stony acres in Bucks County, Pa. His definition of a gentleman's farm: "An irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn't know enough to stay in the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: S.J. Perelman | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...novel, Walter finds himself in a legal mess concerning RAMJAC which will land him in jail once again. Yet, like all Vonnegut heroes, he still believes, like the rest of us, "that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: Kilgore Trout Goes to Harvard | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

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