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Despite a soggy field and a downpour midway through the first half, Griffin still punted beautifully. At one point, he slipped in the muddy sod as he kicked and was still able to get off a 32 yarder...
...Star and two-time MVP, Ripken holds the records for most homers by a shortstop (302) and most consecutive games without an error (95). He is both the Princeton 104-the hardiest-and the Derby -- the most splendid -- of his kind. So what did he think of the new sod? "It's great," he said. "Softer under your feet, nicer to look at, the way a field should be. Smells like baseball...
...nicknames his roommates have created for him: Well, the ones that rhyme with my last name are: Jetlag, Barf-bag, Old Hag, Zig Zag (a roommate walks in, saying: "What's up, Leftbag?"), Saddlebag, Teabag, Trashbag... and of course the ones that rhyme with my first name: Odd, Sod, Mossad, Facade, and Re-todd. That's just about all we can probably print, and I have no idea what "Leftbag" means...
Still, the sticky hot summer air and the freshly groomed sod in Harvard Yard tell me that graduation, in all of its manicured magnificence, is soon upon us. There are a few things I should have liked to have said along side the University's brass and opposite fellow Harvard students come to celebrate the glories of the day. Here's an excerpt from a Commencement address that will...
...York city hall pressroom eyed with obvious distaste the new boy being introduced around. "Barrett?" he sneered in lieu of a handshake. "You're no Barrett." He was offended that this kid of obviously Semitic stock had the temerity to filch a surname from the old sod. Stuck for a rebuttal, I swallowed the slight. Even now, 35 years later, a good answer eludes me. But to my father, who had decreed the new family name, it seemed like a good idea at the time...