Word: rosin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sports pages. Some of his National League opponents insisted-and still do-that he uses the outlawed spitball. "He breaks every rule in the book,'' maintains Cincinnati Manager Birdie Tebbetts. "The umpires tell me it doesn't matter as long as he goes to the rosin bag before making a pitch. The rosin bag has become his father confessor. It absolves him of all sin." As a bench jockey, Burdette has been challenged to fisticuffs by Jackie Robinson, once even goaded even-tempered Roy Campanella into chasing him with a bat. Off the field the Braves...
Jaime's parents, who skimp to keep him in rosin and catgut (Papa Laredo works at a desk job in a hospital), are reluctant to turn him loose as yet in the full-scale concert field. (He has played only a handful of concerts.) Too many, they realize, are the prodigies who "burn themselves out" in their adolescence and are never heard of again. As it is, the boy's life is far from normal. Now living in Philadelphia, he practices four hours a day, goes to Curtis three afternoons a week and plays chamber music two more...
...efficiency on the field is even more striking. "He gets everything into that little bag of his," marvels one manager, "cleat cleaners, chin straps, special pads, pliers, rosin." Always, there are duplicate jerseys ready in case of mishap, and his speed in getting onto the field virtually equals that of the players...
...game proved to be the shortest played at Ebbets Field in two years-one hour, 51 minutes*;but the ball was actually in play only 18 minutes 34.7 seconds of that time. Here is how many of the other 92 minutes were spent: Pitcher Don Newcombe used the rosin bag 28 times, dawdling 2 to 18.1 seconds each time, and talked with Catcher Roy Campanella as long as 45 seconds at a huddle...
...curing not less than 20 Ibs. of madder,* 3) for the best drawing by a child under 14 years of age, and 4) for the best drawing by a child between 14 and 17." But before long, the society was attacking such problems as sheep diseases, the making of rosin, the growing of potatoes. Meanwhile, its list of contributors began to read like an 18th century Who's Who-Sam Johnson, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edward Gibbon, Horace Walpole, Oliver Goldsmith...