Word: foulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lady who has had season tickets in section 18 ("just behind where Fisk caught the foul ball in the stands in game one,") for eight years (I've been going to the games for ten") calls the Red Sox to beat Cincinnatti...
...then the return to good old Fenway, where the Sox needed but one win to become undisputed champs for the first time since 1918, or a lot of foul balls ago. Once again, Rick Wise was called upon to pitch "the most important game of his life" as Dick Stockton likes to say, the fifth most important game of his life in the last month, that...
...splendid brown hair that bounced and she wore pastel blue like a picture in a 1940s magazine. It didn't look as though she smiled that much; she just gracefully extended her legs over the concrete ledge past the red rail and not even the foul balls--hot white smears that lunged her way after inside pitches--seemed to faze her. There were half a dozen men around her, and a little boy beside her; I was in the eighth row, in a chairback seat. It was the summer of '75, and the Baltimore Orioles were eight games...
HOUGH's achievement is in narrating from an old man's perspective and expressing the weariness and grace of a responsible and lonely man crumbling unremorsefully into "decrepitude." Gifford's recognition of a new and foul society is stated not with the tragic alarm of the young man, say of Hough's age, but with humility and resignation, by a police chief who knows it is time to retire...
Charlie Finley, Fair or Foul...