Word: scuttlebutt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rawlings Co. now makes the official major league baseball after a 101-year Spalding reign, and the scuttlebutt is that Rawlings is turning out a rabbit ball. Says Cincinnati Reds Batting Coach Ted Kluszewski: "The ball moves faster through the infield." Adds a baseball executive: "Lay it in the lettuce patch, and it hops...
...Reynolds would at last catch fire. And then when those young phenoms failed us, I would scurry to the back pages of The Sporting News and read about how the Phillies' farm clubs were doing in Eugene and Reading. There was plenty of scuttlebutt before games: "How about that Luzinski tearing up the Double A? Schmidt looks like a good prospect, hitting .300 for Pulaski. Maybe they'll make the difference next year...
...even inaccurate scuttlebutt may convey a psychological truth, because many rumors are "symbolic expressions of feelings." "If rumor says that Joe is quitting, this may mean that his associates wish he would quit," or it may reflect a general-but sometimes unconscious-awareness that Joe desperately wishes he could quit...
Shortly afterwards, Albert M. Sacks dean of the Law School, announced that he had granted a request to allow SDS to use Law School facilities prior to recess. The scuttlebutt was that Bok had asked Sacks to do so to avoid possible by SDS. He had had to circumvent Dunlop to achieve that...