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...resurrects old Shanghai and recollects, in passing, such spicy background scenes as the sailors' prison in San Francisco, a "bin full of murderers, cutthroats, sodomists, and mutineers dredged from the leaky hulls that jammed the docks." He also does some riffs on Chinese secret societies, the erotic kinks of foot-bound "sing-song girls," and the power of opium in a culture in which at least one Chamber of Commerce used the drug as the official standard of exchange. To his appetite for low company Seagrave adds an urbane taste for incongruity, a penchant for Edwardian epigrams ("There...
Still not pitching at 100 percent due to strained ligaments in his left foot, Morgalis didn’t find his slider until about the fifth inning, then retired six straight before sloppy defense took over in the eighth...
Waugh called up the Phillies trainer who had worked with Curt Schilling after his labrum surgery, and put Farkes on the same throwing plan. He started lobbing. Then tossing from 45 feet. Then 60. They kept going in painfully slow 15-foot increments until he was long tossing...
...slump and atop the Red Rolfe division. And then, of course, there was the Ivy championship series against the Tigers, where—facing elimination—he drove in every Crimson run against flamethrower and eventual fourth-round draft pick Ross Ohlendorf, topping it off with a 400-foot home run into the trees in dead center...
...does that moss on your hunchback grow naturally?,” he mimicked with a grin. “Do you need a special shoe for that cloven foot...