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...social call. I'm a professional baseball player doing what I'm paid for, which is to get batters out." Against one Cincinnati batter, he fired his big, jug-handled curve (the best in baseball), then a screwball, and then the fast one. The umpire's thumb jerked upward; the batter, Outfielder Frank Baumholtz, was out on three pitched balls...
...First, Letters, then I thumb through the issue looking at the pictures until I get to Business, which I read. Then I turn to Religion, to Sport, and after that I go to the front and read straight through to the back cover...
Setting his feet squarely on the edge of his desk, adjusting his green eyeshade and squaring his handkerchief, the Vagabond wet his fingers and started leafing through Holiday magazine. He had done this so often that now the pages leaped up as his thumb drew near, leaped up and fell back until the Chosen Spot appeared. Vag wasted little time with the pictures; the article itself moved him more, for hidden there was a great truth and the more he pondered it, the truer it seemed...
...night. The opposition were brutes who combed their hair with wildcat claws. He fancied himself as the depressed coach without material who concentrated on character-building-and wasn't very good at that either. "I've got a three-year-old son who sucks his thumb," Jimmy once said. "I've been trying to mold him out of that habit, but the only result is that I'm beginning to suck my own thumb...
Despite the sore thumb, Chip will start tonight against the Tigers along with the rest of the group that started against Cornell Saturday. Pete Petrillo will be at forward with Johnny Rockwell, Bill Prior will jump enter, and Dick Covey will team with Gannon at the guards...