Word: umps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three categories, and has an appropriate technique for each. When an umpire really calls one wrong, Leo strides out of his dugout menacingly, and patiently diagrams to him what happened. The fans see all the apparently angry pointing, and imagine admiringly what is being said. Confesses Leo: "Sometimes, the ump admits to me, 'I missed that one,' before I even start to tell him what a woodenhead son-of-a-bitch he is. But I keep on talking ... maybe I'm telling him I'll buy him a beer after the game...
Where the umpire's decision was close but right, The Lip is apt to make far more noise. "I'm just putting up a smoke screen," he admits. "Maybe the ump will call the next close...
Sometimes one of his Dodgers gets too deep in debate with an umpire, and that calls for Technique No. 3. The trick is to take over the fight. He thrusts out his chin, wags a threatening finger under the ump's nose, and as a final insult kicks sand on the umpire's shoes. Says Durocher: "Sure, I get bounced but my player stays...
...UMP HITTER ON ROLLING...
Life with Father. "Don't you let them get you down," urged a col lege friend, after "Putrid" Woollcott (also known as "Slimer") had been tossed into the campus fountain for the ump teenth time. "You're going to be a greater [Samuel] Johnson." Young Woollcott agreed - though there is no evidence that he ever had the slightest conception of what macte Samuel...