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Back in the seventies a University baseball captain invented the catcher's mask, now seen on diamonds all over the country...
...Moffie, a well-known outfielder working out around second. Captain John Caulfield, a familiar sight to baseball fans in right field, was playing in a little close. In fact he was holding down first as the ball was pegged around the infield. Cliff Crosby, minus the pads, and mask was using a five fingered glove in a pepper game. "He's been playing third," someone told...
STRIKE THROUGH THE MASK! (70 pp.) -Peter Viereck-Scribner...
More middlebrows than highbrows have applauded Viereck's efforts, but Terror and Decorum, his first book of more-or-less straightforward verse, won him a Pulitzer Prize last year. Strike Through the Mask!, his second, is as motley a product as Viereck's prizewinner, ranges from collegiate cacklings to fine and often funny flights of fancy. Conservative, not to say eclectic in form, it has more zest than grace...
...Mask!, at least a dozen strike out. But even when he fans, Viereck is refreshingly flamboyant; popping with energy and imagination, he gives every verse the old college try. Occasionally, as when he impersonates a pine tree singing its pitchy heart out to a pining rose, he can fall flat on his face. In the better works, wit gives weight to his wobbly lyricism. Viereck is at his typical best in a poem inspired by a newspaper headline: GLACIER ACCIDENT KILLS SKI PARTY; ONE BODY STILL MISSING. Impersonating the lost, icebound skier, he wrote...