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With his hapless team 27 games out of first place and losing as usual, Bresnahan had fired an errant pick-off throw over the third baseman's head. As the runner came home, Dave triumphantly tagged him out: he had held onto the ball while tossing an Idaho potato carved to look like a baseball. Unamused, the umpire ruled that the run had scored. Dave's angry manager got him kicked off the team. Last week Bresnahan, now a real estate salesman, was vindicated. "Gehrig had to hit .340 and play in more than 2,000 consecutive games...
...Saturday reunion cookout featured hamburgers, barbecued chicken and potato salad--but co-op residents also prepared homemade bread, home-brewed beer, grilled tofu, and curried tofu with apples and raisins. At least one of the co-op's four dogs had a name tag reading, "Hello, My Name Is Gwendolyn" stuck on her head...
...wasn't hard to get used to the free roast beef sandwiches and potato chips and soda at football games, either, although I'm not a big football fan and only watched from the press box two or three times...
...move this thing along, to wage its battles and to get this bill to the House," Barrett said. "I don't think this is a bill that we want sitting around through the Democratic primary and through the November final [election.] It makes sense to move this hot potato right along...
Commenting on Mr. Potato Head, Leno said, "Howdo we explain to people in starving countries thatwe grow food for amusement?" Leno added, "Astarving child in Biafra sees a Mr. Potato Headand says 'Oh! A potato, a potato!' You say 'No,you can't eat it-you have...