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Rocky Colavito, for example, is still batting below .200 and has yet to get his first home-run of the year. Steve Boros was benched with a .221 average, and Jake Wood, besides playing a sloppy second base, is below...
...names in this novel seem to have come from unpretentious rural tomb stones, the thin sandstone kind that a man could carry under one arm : Lizzie Yoh, Theodosia Garrison, Phrany Luck-enbill, Lutie Markle, Jake Loy. Palmyra Scarlett, Seranus Mast. They live in towns like Jacob's and Unionville in Pennsylvania's Vale of Union, or up in the mining patches at Mahanoy near the Tulpehocken Trail. The prose is as homely as a bag of snitz. Some people get their dutch up, others are as meek as Moses. They eat victuals, marry helpmeets, and get around...
...will continue to stick. They led the league with a team batting average of .266, scored the most runs, led the league in triples and were runner-ups to one team or another in hits, extra-base hits, total bases, RBI's, and stolen bases. While rookie second-baseman Jake Wood set a major-league record for strikeouts, (and led the league in triples), Norm Cash won the batting championship with a 37-point spread over the official runner-up, teammate, Al Kaline...
...Then Jake and "The Doctor" appear. The former is an Israeli med student who sizes up and sets out to make Rosie. He exaggerates and capitalizes on his foreigness; as a refugee, an exile, a poor Jewish citizen of the world, Jake begins to score with the leotarded guitar strummer...
...sense that it coheres in a vivid, living life of its own within the book, and true in serving as an affecting illusion of the way we wish things were. We all wish, decadents that we are, that we could imitate the languid laconic cynicism of Brett and Jake and Bill Gorton; we all wish, stout hearts that we think we are, that we could argue as honestly with ourselves as Robert Jordan or the Old Man of the Sea. Heming-way's answers may be shallow and short-sighted, blindly idealist; his is not the horrifying total vision...