Word: sand-lot
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...before the meeting of this preposterous pair that Pride of the Bimbos excels. Sayles has a deadly accurate ear for Southern cracker dialect ("Chick at awl?" asks a South Carolina gas-station attendant); the jabbering at a sand-lot baseball game ("Chuckerinthereissgahcantit"); and the good-ole-boy humor ("if that woman fell down a well, you could pump ugly for a week"). Best of all, the gruff friendship between Burns and the young son of a teammate is successfully played for both laughs and pathos; as it does in all initiation tales, the moment comes when the boy must measure...
...Supermen" Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb; of cancer; in Portland, Me. Levinson was a friend of Loeb's younger brother Tommy in 1924 when the jaded teen-age duo decided on him as the victim of their "perfect crime." The pair attempted to follow Levinson home from a sand-lot baseball game, but he had turned down a different street from the usual one and inadvertently eluded them. They then killed 14-year-old Bobby Franks instead...
...three consecutive seasons in last place. But now Stengel was sitting in the stands. Not one but two teams were playing loosey-goosey, and both clubs were nominally the best in the land. Yet the Mets and the Oakland Athletics played the World Series as if it were a sand-lot scramble...
...ophthalmologists doubted that even LSD could wipe out the eye-closing reflexes so completely. The attorney general found that "records" of the "cases" in Yoder's office were defective. Then it developed that Yoder, who has been 90% blind since child hood from a sand-lot baseball injury, had fabricated the story to drive home the dangers of LSD. Suspended from his post, "distraught and sick," Yoder had himself admitted to the Philadelphia Psychiatric Center...
...name because he was born in New York City in the year of the 400th anniversary of Columbus' 1492 voyage, the week of the dedication of Columbus Circle.) Young Chris grew up in a modest duplex in a tough part of Phoebus, played a good game of sand-lot baseball and dreamed of becoming a big-leaguer. To this day, his most prized possession is a baseball he had autographed by Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig one hot summer day when he was nine years old. In high school, he handled mathematics with such facility that he decided...