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...After striking out first baseman Joe Piperato, Scott walked pinchhitter Mike Riff to put men on first and second with one out. But the next batter fouled to O'Donnell and Houston ended the game by going to his knees to snare left fielder Jim Purcell's windblown foul popup...
...pitches low in an effort to force the hitter to ground into a double play. With two out, he will settle for retiring the batter in any way possible. Occasionally, with a free-swinging power hitter at the plate, Elston will pitch dangerously high, try to provoke a popup. "He doesn't care who's hitting," marvels Chicago Catcher Sammy Taylor. "He believes he can beat anybody...
Guided by Author Fenwick's inflexible hand, the common man may well proceed to great rewards. The chief reward: being safe from snubs. Author Fenwick deplores "fake fireplaces filled with a fake coal fire, lighted by electricity," deprecates "a shawl on the piano" and " 'popup' cigarette boxes , . . decorated with a scotty or a nude." But she shows that her judgment has less to do with taste than with fashion when she advocates "tables made of old painted tin trays on a modern stretcher base" and "odd saucers of Lowestoft china ... as ashtrays...
...troop by a reviewing stand, while overhead drones a beer-keg blimp. Sheffield, hawking a soft drink, takes an inexpensive way out: a paper orange with a metal base is scooted across the screen by means of a concealed magnet. Sanka coffee and other advertisers have adapted the novelties (popup techniques and hinged limbs) common in children's books...