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That's the latest slogan at Shea Stadium these days. Actually, it's "Baseball as it oughta be," italicized and everything, plastered right across the upper deck facade. Mets owner Frank Cashen probably felt defeated since the Atlanta Braves had already proclaimed themselves "America's Team...
What does that mean, anyway--baseball as it oughta be? When I journeyed to Shea for the Mets home opener against the Cards and Howard Johnson let an easy grounder go through his legs, allowing the winning run to score in the 13th inning--was that baseball as it oughta...
...make up a mere fraction of the book. As for the rest, one can only agree with a neighborhood hooker who unburdens herself to Wren after he escapes a bomb planted in his apartment by the Liberation Front. "I don't know, Rus," she says, "sometimes I think it oughta be better than this...
...jackpot. The Electra, meanwhile, had been used on other hops around the West. Another crew was about to fly it out of Las Vegas on Sunday morning when an Eastern Airlines pilot, following the Electra, radioed the tower: "You ought to tell that Lockheed Electra . . . that they oughta look at their No. 1 engine. That thing's smoking a lot and losing some kind of liquid." Replied the tower: "Galaxy 532, did you copy that?" Responded a Galaxy crew member: "Yes, thank you. We didn't get any indication; will take a look at it next stop." They...
...Moorish Dignity. Then he takes up selling hot dogs in the French Quarter. His mother comes to the belated conclusion that Ignatius is disgracing her and wonders about committing him to Charity Hospital. A friend urges her on: "If it's free and they lock people away, Ignatius oughta be there...