Word: swatting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Baseball's elder league opens its centennial season with hopes of bringing back World Series honors from the mighty nemesis of the American League, the Oakland As. The National League's western division will hold few surprises for enthusiasts of the grand hole game, but the Swami of Swat predicts weird happenings in the eastern race...
Reports of fisticuffs and mass riots in many pubs in the city over this season's baseball champions have distributed the Swami of Swat so strongly that it is time to lay this unrest to rest with the definitive word on this subject...
After a seance with my baby brother, the Sultan of Swat, the Swami will utter the words of wisdom that every baseball afficionado years of each year at this time--baseball's pennant winners...
After college graduation in 1912, I traveled to Karlsbad In Austria to visit him. We lunched together in a small restaurant. I noted a fly walking on the tablecloth and attempted to swat it. He turned to me and said quietly, "Let the fly enjoy its promenade on the high plateau." How typical of his considerate attitude toward all things great and small...
Ruth rapidly became not only the Sultan of Swat but an aspiring social lion awkwardly eager to say the right thing. The rude, uneducated kid from Baltimore's waterfront once convulsed guests at a formal dinner party by spurning a plate of asparagus. "Asparagus," he explained to his hostess in his politest tones, "makes my urine smell." Asparagus, though, was about the only thing that Ruth would not eat. He used to munch hot dogs during practice sessions with the Yankees, once put away an omelet made of 18 eggs and three big slices of ham. He was equally...