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...Wodehouse spun tales about the sport. Usually they played it for laughs. Lardner's Alibi Ike dealt with a peculiar rookie, using comic vernacular: "I've heard infielders complain of a sore arm after heavin' one into the stand, and I've saw outfielders tooken sick with a dizzy spell when they've misjudged a fly ball. But this baby can't even go to bed without apologizin', and I bet he excuses himself to the razor when he gets ready to shave." Runyon's patented style, stilted formality mixed with slang...
...Anyway, the "Hole" is populated with a specimen of every fish found in the surrounding waters from turtles to octopi. "Old Joe," the keeper, secretly told me, as he told every other tourist that ever visited the place, "Annette Kellerman had some movin' pitchers tooken as she sat on that 'er ledge throwing bread crums to the fishes, she did!" But she didn't dive or swim-oh no-not into that mess! Authority: "Old Joe." THOMAS D. RICE...
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