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...even though it seems Zappala has the fiercely loyal Ingalls Rink fandom tightly wound on his finger, his demeanor is still that of the lunchpail-and-hardhat grinder. “I tell him all the time that he’s having a helluva season, and he just deflects the praise,” Steeves said. “It’s great to see such a level-headed kid be successful...
Here’s the good news: This is no secret in their dressing room. After Saturday night’s game, coach Mark Mazzoleni admitted that his team is “very beatable” when it doesn’t “bring a lunchpail mentality.” He said his team was “out-competed” by both Princeton and Brown...
...Ripken's achievement was lionized by sportswriters as one that brought fans back to the game and cleared some of the rancorous smog lingering after the season-ending strike the year before. The participants in the MLB poll surely meant their vote for Ripken as a kind of lunchpail prize: for 13-plus years the guy clocked in, played every day despite sprained ankles and an aching back, acted like a working man, gave himself up for the team. Wednesday night, Billy Crystal, host for the pre-game celebration, said of Ripken, "He is everything that baseball should...
...names. To Hoover is to inhale or consume greedily; Ike is an uncouth fellow; LBJ, the military's Long Binh jail in Vietnam; Jerusalem Slim, the radical syndicalists' derisive name for Jesus; Oscar, an unpleasant or foolish man. Joe gets more than three pages of entries, among them Joe Lunchpail, an ordinary working man, and Joe Sad, black English for a friendless or unpopular man. John Wayne wins nine citations. To John-Wayne is to attack with great force; a John Wayne cookie is a military field-ration biscuit...
...There are lunchpail folks who support Alice Wolf," she said...