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...handsome quarterback from Los Angeles. She admired the game as "one of the few survivals of the heroic," and it pleased her that football "arouses only the most simple and normal emotions" and "offers no particular inducement to betting." She wrote: "Of course it is brutal. So is Homer brutal, and Tolstoi; that is, they all alike appeal to the crude savage instincts of men. We have not outgrown all our old animal instincts yet, heaven grant we never shall! The moment that, as a nation, we lose brute force, or an admiration for brute force, from that moment poetry...
...Chicago White Sox thanks largely to Roenicke, who batted .750 and hit an important home run in the American League playoffs. For his reward, he was benched the first two Series games with Philadelphia and displaced by Lowenstein, who made a marvelous catch in Game 1, hit a mighty homer in Game 2, and was replaced by Roenicke in Game 3. "I don't want to play the third game," said Lowenstein sensibly. "Steve Carlton is pitching." That is a typically reasonable reaction for an Oriole, especially Lowenstein, who never says, "I hit a home run," rather, "I immobilized...
This is not the attitude of the National League champion Philadelphia Phillies, veterans of slightly smaller wars. The Phillies likewise share positions but grudgingly. Centerfielder Garry Maddox hit the winning homer in Game 1 (2-1) and said, "I honestly didn't think I'd still be here by now. I have not accepted this platooning role. I don't want to be that kind of player next year." Maddox watched from the bench as Baltimore won the second game...
What the anthology lacks in depth it more than makes up in breadth. The collected figments venture from Homer: "Two gates for ghostly dreams there are: one ... of honest horn, and one of ivory" to John Updike: She repeated her dream "at breakfast. He was moved, beholding his daughter launched into another dimension of life, like school. He was touched by her tiny stock of imagery." Throughout, Brook is keenly aware of the terror and distress that reside in dreams: his categories include Nightmare, Violence, the Absurd and Frustrations. Together they should engender enough insomnia for a lifetime. Instead, precisely...
...most unlikely occurrence that gave McGregor a 1-0 lead. With the count 3-2 on Dwyer, a left-handed hitter, Denny's pitch split the middle of the plate. Dwyer hammered it over the right-center field fence to become the 18th player to homer in his first World Series...