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...baseball spend countless hours discussing their relics. The hard-fought 1980s Astros-Phillies championship series included four extra innings games which were "Lovre pieces" highlighted by the seesaw Game Four--"baseball of the High Baroque, surely." A leading object de studie is Ron Guidry, who "is not a thrower...his every pitch, including the slider, contributes to an eloquent major theme built around the keynote, which is the fastball." A most cherished possession is the recollection of "Brooks Robinson's extended doctoral thesis on third-base play, which he presented in the otherwise unnotable World Series...
...Since 1900, 10 players have struck out more than 300 batters in a season. Take one point for each flame thrower named. A bonus of 3 if you can name the first post-1900 pitcher to accomplish this feat...
...which seems so utterly obvious once we have encountered it and cannot image the ignorance we bore earlier--which one senses in Thoreau, Orwell, and occasionally, E B White Hence. Hoagland's best stuff in The Tugman's Passage, the two essays "The Ridge-Slope Fox and the Knife Thrower" and "Women and Men," sparkle...
...Ridge-Slope Fox and the Knife Thrower" in both the book's best and most freewheeling essay. In it Hoagland seems more than anything else to meditate simply and carefully on the complexity of life. Again leaping from one topic to the next, he exults in his sightings of animals while wondering if he will catch a glimpse of the fox and then considers what an ordeal solitude actually is, despite its perverse and mostly pseudo-intellectual glamour. Then he considers the differences of life in the city and the country (it is not exactly that life is slow...
...every meet. Senior co-captain Kim Johnson will be joined this year by two outstanding freshmen--Marie Acacia and Kathy Durante--and the trio could well outclass all of its competition. Acacia is the New York State indoor shotput champion, and Durante is an accomplished discus and shotput thrower in her own right...