Word: polos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...talks out of the corner of his mouth. He dresses with a glaring, George Raft kind of snazziness-rich, dark shirts and white figured ties, with ring and cuff links that almost always match. He had, at last count, roughly $30,000 worth of cuff links. "He has the Polo Grounds for a closet," says a friend. In one compartment hang more than too suits. In another there are 50 pairs of shoes, each shoe set on a separate tree that sprouts out of the wall. In another, 20 hats. Frank is almost obsessively clean. He washes his hands with...
...Your sports editor should be punished by writing "Bedford Avenue Special" a hundred times and then by banishment to the farthest seat in the Polo Grounds...
...keeping his secret to himself, but on those rare occasions when the Giants win a pennant, Hano suffers from unmistakable symptoms. He comes down with World Series fever. Years of frustration curdle his spleen; choleric misanthropy consumes him. The cure is drastic: he must spend an afternoon in the Polo Grounds bleachers snarling his defiance at the civilized world-pleading with a succession of Giant pitchers to skull a batter and "stick it in his ear," begging every Giant base runner to spike an infielder and" chop his legs off." So it was on Sept. 29, 1954. Hano began...
Thus, they take their secret shame with them wherever they go, and to compensate they become rude, overbearing and superlative-addicted ... In other cities the fandom is notoriously ignorant, unfair or surly - sometimes all three. Only in the Polo Grounds do you get a solid mass of intelligent, polite, yet loyal, spectators." Clearly, Fiction Writer (Big Out) Hano suffers from the astigmatism of his trade ; his picture is purposely a little out of focus. But sitting with Hano at that game (Giants 5, Indians 2), and rummaging through his baseball memories with him, is fine fun. Still, the reader wonders...
...place of splendor. The Mongol Emperor Kublai, grandson of Genghis Khan, ordered the building of Green Mount, a hill that was dotted with evergreens brought from far and wide by imperial elephants, paved with a layer of green copper ore and topped by a green pavilion. Marco Polo reported in wonderment: "The great Khan caused all this to be made for the comfort of his spirit...