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...such problem. He clearly recalls throwing his last spitball to Johnny Callison of the Philadelphia Phillies, who grounded into a force play. Koonce's memory may be due to the fact that he is only 26, still pitches for the New York Mets-and threw his last spitter just the other...
...find out I'm slower too." Because Sam's "hummer" breaks sharply-down instead of up-he has also been accused of throwing an illegal spitball. Not so, says McDowell: "I wouldn't know how. But if people want to think I'm throwing a spitter, that's fine with me. It'll keep them guessing up there, and that's what my job is all about...
Football introduced the forward pass, basketball the one-handed shot, and baseball threw out the spitter. Now we have a larger strike zone, but it remains to be seen whether fewer pitches and bases on balls will cure the more deep-rooted ills of the national pastime...
...songs, cabaret acts, serious plays. He even translated some books that were actually American: General Omar Bradley's A Soldier's Story, The Three Faces of Eve, Young Man with a Horn, The Man with the Golden Arm. But Vian's greatest success was still The Spitter, and to ensure accuracy in the movie version, the producer sent Director Michel Gast to the U.S. to soak up atmosphere. The outlandish results seemed more than satisfactory to French critics. "Nothing shocks us in this reconstitution," reported Le Canard Enchaineé "It is as if we were seeing...
Where Author Vian's views might lie between these two extremes, no one will ever know. He attended a preview of The Spitter, took one look at his fantastic Trenton, and slumped in his seat. At 39, Boris Vian was dead of a heart attack...