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Thunder & Sunshine. Ted strolls the dusty lot from the hotel to the clubhouse, announces his arrival there by whistling, then calling "Hey, hamhead!" at someone, or by setting up a richly profane squawk about the set of the wind or the whereabouts of his spikes. His teammates, who know that Ted's outbursts are his way of working off the impatience that perpetually gnaws at him, let him thunder away. When he subsides, one of them (often it is burly, chirpy Birdie Tebbetts, the first-string catcher) calls out: "Hey, that's telling them, Theodore!" Ted rewards such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Competitive Instinct | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

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