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Maybe I’ll Pitch Forever choose

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[US] S. Paige Maybe I’ll Pitch Forever 64: Not that I’d give up women, not on a bet.
at not on a bet (phr.) under not on a bet, phr.
[US] S. Paige Maybe I’ll Pitch Forever 43: [N]ot just big-time Negro ball, but big-time major league ball.
at ball, n.1
[US] S. Paige Maybe I’ll Pitch Forever 277: It sure is funny. A man can be big stuff in baseball and his wife knows it, but because it’s something he’s doing every day it don’t seem like anything.
at big stuff (n.) under big, adj.
[US] S. Paige Maybe I’ll Pitch Forever 134: All I had was the Monarchs’ number two team and a job wandering around the bushes.
at bush, n.1
[US] S. Paige Maybe I’ll Pitch Forever 153: I can’t remember having seen her since we busted up back in 1939.
at bust up, v.
[US] S. Paige Maybe I’ll Pitch Forever 45: I was busting around in a flashy roadster that could really scoot.
at bust around (v.) under bust, v.1
[US] S. Paige Maybe I’ll Pitch Forever 51: Bill Gatewood would rent me to another club so I could pick up a piece of change.
at change, n.
[US] S. Paige Maybe I’ll Pitch Forever 64: What I didn’t know was that if you kept chasing, you were bound to trip sometime.
at chase, v.
[US] S. Paige Maybe I’ll Pitch Forever 236: The hitters didn’t like that sidearm pitch so I got to pitchin’ overhand and saved the sidearm for the clutch.
at clutch, n.
[US] S. Paige Maybe I’ll Pitch Forever 42: Even when we got to stay in hotels, they were the Negro hotels. [...] I hit up [team manager] Alex about it, but he couldn’t do much except let me stay with friends when we were on the road.
at hit up, v.
[US] S. Paige Maybe I’ll Pitch Forever 35: It didn’t take him long to convince me that I ought to hop to Chattanooga. Fifty dollars a month was big money to me.
at hop, v.1
[US] S. Paige Maybe I’ll Pitch Forever 101: [of a baseball] He still hadn’t forgotten how I plunked a few of his boys back when he was with the St. Louis Stars.
at plunk, v.
[US] S. Paige Maybe I’ll Pitch Forever 85: We did some running on the town together and I figured he might as well be there to see the end of my running.
at run, v.
[US] S. Paige Maybe I’ll Pitch Forever 242: ‘You know, Mr. Lou, you fooled me buntin’ like that. I thought you’d stand up there and slug it out with me’.
at slug, v.2
[US] S. Paige Maybe I’ll Pitch Forever 143: ‘Where’s that half-smart girl?’ I asked the clerk. I said it loud enough so Miss Brown could hear it.
at half-smart (adj.) under smart, adj.
[US] S. Paige Maybe I’ll Pitch Forever 170: I didn’t answer for a while, figuring he might go away. But he was a real sticker. He just kept pounding.
at sticker, n.1
[US] S. Paige Maybe I’ll Pitch Forever 168: She had a time with me, that’s for sure, but she kept trying to get me to save up some.
at time, n.
[US] S. Paige Maybe I’ll Pitch Forever 247: When you’re sitting down there in last place, you sure get wet in the mouth thinking and asking about how the uptown folks are living.
at uptown, adj.
[US] S. Paige Maybe I’ll Pitch Forever 121: And when you change, what you do and who you know changes. Before you know it you get sort of uptown.
at get/go uptown (on) (v.) under uptown, adj.
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