Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...important, but I mean it wasn't too immediate. Finally, we started back on another nine, and I got another call. This one was by someone who didn't realize that I had had the thing. And by this time-I always had an uncertain temper-it had gotten completely out of control. One doctor said he had never seen me in such a state and that's the reason I had a heart attack. So I've never gotten angry again...
...tall, skinny, ginger-headed man afflicted all his life with a badly blotched complexion that set the seal on his ugliness. His physical unattractiveness made his youth lonely and affected his character and work. In this long and lovingly detailed biography, Critic Mark Schorer suggests that his volatile temper, his insatiable hunger for male companionship and female company, his manic alcoholism, his prankishness and exhibitionism, even his short and abortive acting career late in life, were the result of an emotionally starved childhood and adolescence. At a 1922 reunion dinner of his Yale class, Lewis said: "When...
Tall and rangy (6 ft. 2 in., 205 Ibs.), "Old Stoneface" Hutchinson has the shoulders of a longshoreman and a face that might have been sculpted by Modigliani. He has been known to terrify rookie ballplayers merely by staring at them, and his temper tantrums are monumental: enraged by the loss of a close game, he has attacked the dugout watercooler, ripped his uniform to shreds, and pounded a concrete wall until his knuckles were bruised and bleeding. When Hutchinson was pitching for Detroit, recalls Yankee Yogi Berra, "I could always tell how he had done when we followed...
...spittoon. He takes careful notes during pregame batting and fielding practice. "That way," he says, "I might notice that one of their guys is hurt, or pick up one or two other little things." Like Hutchinson. Houk has a fierce tem per-but he usually keeps it in check. "Temper hurt me a time or two as a player," he says. "I knew it wasn't going to help the club, so I said. 'Well, hell, let's put a rope on it.' I don't say I've licked...
...voted him the best ball caller in the business. Relying on his "fast thumb" (he once ejected 18 players from an exhibition game), Dascoli insisted on absolute obedience in every game he worked. But good as he was, Dascoli committed the umpire's unforgivable sin: he lost his temper in public. Fortnight ago, for calling National League President Warren Giles "incompetent and spineless," Dascoli was summarily dismissed. Explained Giles, who is also a fast man with a thumb: "The best umpire is the most inconspicuous-except when he's calling a play...