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Word: kinnamon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will any reader who spends a summer evening with Gerlach's despised dozen. The men profiled in this long-overdue tribute were not infallible, and they knew it. "The toughest call an umpire has to make is not the half swing," admits Veteran Bill Kinnamon. "The toughest call is throwing a guy out of the game after you blew the hell out of the play." But all the officials consider themselves honest; all believe that if they missed an occasional decision, they called every game well and truly. So they did, and collectively they and their colleagues have kept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Variations On a Thumb | 8/4/1980 | See Source »

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