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...lady who has had season tickets in section 18 ("just behind where Fisk caught the foul ball in the stands in game one,") for eight years (I've been going to the games for ten") calls the Red Sox to beat Cincinnatti...
...splendid brown hair that bounced and she wore pastel blue like a picture in a 1940s magazine. It didn't look as though she smiled that much; she just gracefully extended her legs over the concrete ledge past the red rail and not even the foul balls--hot white smears that lunged her way after inside pitches--seemed to faze her. There were half a dozen men around her, and a little boy beside her; I was in the eighth row, in a chairback seat. It was the summer of '75, and the Baltimore Orioles were eight games...
HOUGH's achievement is in narrating from an old man's perspective and expressing the weariness and grace of a responsible and lonely man crumbling unremorsefully into "decrepitude." Gifford's recognition of a new and foul society is stated not with the tragic alarm of the young man, say of Hough's age, but with humility and resignation, by a police chief who knows it is time to retire...
Charlie Finley, Fair or Foul...
...another game last year, another game your saw at Dodger Stadium, to rob a Montreal better of a sure triple. Montreal manager Gene Mauch called Buckner's catch the best he's ever seen, but nobody wants to hear how Buckner snagged the ball just as he hit the foul line, about how he slid on his belly toward the reserved seat section in a dust storm of white chalk. Ancient Dodger heroics excite no one in the summer of the Red Sox Renaissance...