Word: pluvious
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Neither of the two teams made it into the World Series, so that pluvious contest will surely never attain the significance I wished for it in my dolor. But my disinterested effort to view a baseball game as historic certainly avoids the consternation that a partisan fan must confront when his team loses, and it may also be the more honorable attitude for the spectator to maintain in the crush of the pennant race. No justification beyond some stretched definition of civic pride exists for the vehement strain of chauvinism that some people, and I am one, hold...
...Phelan spun a neat 3-hitter to blank the Terriers 6 to 0 on Soldiers Field. The story was just about reversed on June 5, when Joe Gathman let the Stahlmen down with 3 hits while his mates pounded the lead up to 8 to 0 before Jupe Pluvious stepped in and called a halt to the contest in the sixth inning...
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