Word: sandlots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five seasons a baseball farm hand for the Cardinals. Soccer, says Rooney, gives him the biggest boot: "It's the speed and the pretty pass work and the extra little amount of roughness. I'm talking about really topnotch teams, though. Most people in this country see sandlot games that just look like a lot of people kicking each other...
Thus Painter Everett Shinn summed up the turn-of-the-century standards: idealized nudes wrapped in cheesecloth, banal studio models posed in quaint period costumes. Into this world rushed a group of artists who, by the genteel standards of the day, behaved like sandlot hoodlums bent on showing only America's dirty face. Their talented and dashing leader was Robert Henri, goad and teacher to more than a dozen leading American painters. Last week, with the biggest collection of Henri's work to be shown since 1931 on display at New Jersey's Montclair Art Museum, tribute...
...earning a living. For him, it has always been "the greatest sport this country has had"; to play or to coach hard, winning football has been his object since boyhood. "I only got to play once before I went to college," he recalls. "It was on a home-town sandlot in Punxsutawney, Penn., against a mining team. I was in long enough to tackle a big 240-pounder before my father grabbed me by the scruff of the neck and pulled me off the field...
...finally took the pledge, too, though it did not seem to lessen his zest for fun or the game he loved. In recent years he directed the New York Journal-American's sandlot-baseball program. Among his alumni: Yankee Pitcher Whitey Ford, Brooklyn Pitcher Billy Loes. Last week, as baseball writers were sealing their ballots for elections to the game's Cooperstown Hall of Fame, Rabbit Maranville, among the leading candidates, died of a heart attack at 61 in his New York City home. There were many who fondly remembered the Rabbit's quick chuckle...
...writes most of his own notes and memorandums (and the one opinion he has written so far) with a yellow lead pencil on standard, yellow, lined legal pads. He writes with his right hand, although he is naturally a left-hander (he was once a southpaw outfielder on a sandlot baseball team). When he was a schoolboy, a teacher tied his left hand behind him and forced him to write with his right. This practice, long condemned as psychologically disturbing, has left no noticeable scars on the Chief Justice...