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...have operated on the assumption that since the gods had mistakenly overlooked him, “then better to take advantage of it before the gods get wise and call in the debt,” Morrow writes with a flourish. But JFK himself was certainly not spared the gods?? wrath: he suffered from Addison’s disease, the treatments for which would painfully deteriorate his spine...
...trying to shove chocolate chip cookies down your face” between games in Ivy League doubleheaders), the profound (an emotional reflection on outfielder Joe Llanes’ battle with testicular cancer) and the sublimely hackneyed (Walsh’s references to the “baseball gods?? were heartfelt enough to defy cliché). Joe Walsh was a baseball man of almost cinematic caliber who captured our imaginations immediately, a walking embodiment of that mystical fabric that connects the games of baseball and life. And so when he got philosophical, as he did that day after...
...conclusion of the second game was the manifestation of the softball gods?? will, then the conclusion of the first game was the umpires blasphemously playing god themselves...
...have a few lessons left before my road test—which is scheduled for August 20th, in case you’d like to put in a good word for me with the Road Test Gods??and I can only imagine what Jay has left in store...
...thesis-driven sort of book. No, no and no. The sections veer wildly from one topic to another (“Incipit Parodia,” “Musings of a Serial Killer,” and “Meters Are the Cattle of the Gods?? are all chapters, and their content is almost as unrelated as their headings). The only thing unifying the loose strands seems to be Calasso’s attempt to codify why he likes certain authors better than others. I don’t generally agree with H. L. Mencken?...