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(con. 1919) Eight Men Out 251: [D]efense attorneys took turns badgering him, trying to break down his story. They never got to first base.at first base, n.
(con. 1919) Eight Men Out 251: [D]efense attorneys took turns badgering him, trying to break down his story. They never got to first base. (con. 1919) Eight Men Out 213: Kid Gleason sat in the lobby of St. Louis’s Planters Hotel and cried the blues: ‘I’d like to quit today and go home for good. I’d like to get away from baseball forever’.at sing the blues (v.) under blues, n.1
(con. 1919) Eight Men Out 174: [Ray] Schalk hated to face signing that skimpy contract and the cold-turkey dictums of [Comiskey agent] Harry Grabiner.at cold turkey, adj.
(con. 1919) Eight Men Out 145: [I]t was a lot easier to accept dirty money if you were going to be butchered for turning it down.at dirty, adj.
(con. 1919) Eight Men Out 175: The word was out that [Eddie] Cicotte had gone over and was spitting up his guts.at go over, v.
(con. 1919) Eight Men Out 13: Was there something ‘messy’ in a ballplayer’s life that could be held over his head?at messy, adj.1
(con. 1919) Eight Men Out 12: Like the freewheeling roughhouse morality of the American frontier, excessive drinking, wildness, brawling, and contempt for umpires came to be ruled out.at roughhouse, adj.
(con. 1919) Eight Men Out 3: The first two games of the Series were to be played here and every seat had long since been sold. Ticket scalpers were getting the phenomenal price of $50 a pair.at ticket-scalper (n.) under scalp, v.1
(con. 1919) Eight Men Out 73: Pesch had claimed that he’d sewed up Gandil, Risberg, and Felsch, placing them on a payroll for $200 a week. For this, they supposedly threw one or two ball-games a week.at sew up, v.
(con. 1919) Eight Men Out 256: Burns could make a dozen mistakes, find himself in a manure pile of troubles, yet now he came up clean.at shitload, n.
(con. 1919) Eight Men Out 125: He was not going to spend his life slogging it out in [...] the dingy club fight rings, or even in the world of baseball.at slog it out (v.) under slog, v.
(con. 1919) Eight Men Out 69: Sammy was undaunted. ‘You’d better win. [...] I got three thousand soldiers marching on you guys!’.at soldier, n.
(con. 1919) Eight Men Out 175: The word was out that [Eddie] Cicotte had gone over and was spitting up his guts.at spit up (v.) under spit, v.
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