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Dock Ellis 107: [S]he was no armpiece. [...] Daughter of a lawyer, Paula was an accomplished athlete, a swimmer, and a good student.at armpiece (n.) under arm, n.
Dock Ellis 107: [S]he was no armpiece. [...] Daughter of a lawyer, Paula was an accomplished athlete, a swimmer, and a good student. Dock Ellis 148: ‘Dock’s popped off from time to time, and said things which people have objected to [...] He pops off at times when he’s going to get the most publicity’.at pop off (at the mouth), v.
Dock Ellis 109: [W]e got close. The thing [i.e. racist abuse] happened again. We was ready to go down, back to back, together.at back-to-back (adv.) under back, n.1
Dock Ellis 79: Late in his baseball career, [pitcher Chet] Brewer used to patch together a team and play major leaguers, barnstorming on the West Coast at the end of the regular season.at barnstorm, v.
Dock Ellis 25: Once in Chicago he had a quarrel going with the bleacher bums, as they called themselves. ‘I even had a grown man crying. I was just wolfing’.at bleacher bum, n.
Dock Ellis 51: ‘Big Daddy’—the old friends reminisce, shaking their heads—he could really bring it!’.at bring it (v.) under bring, v.
(con. early 1960s) Dock Ellis 55: The Japanese were the best scholars. ‘The Buddhaheads were the straight A’s,’ says Dock.at buddhahead (n.) under buddha, n.
Dock Ellis 82: They gave me an address book! [...] and you need to be an Einstein to cipher it out.at cipher, v.
Dock Ellis 34: [T]he superb athlete who never made it, because he clutched; who would excel in practice or in warm-up, but in the heat of battle drop the ball.at clutch (up), v.
Dock Ellis 170: He wanted me to cut into management then the way I know to cut into it now.at cut into, v.
Dock Ellis 195: [of a baseball player] ‘I was never fast. He taught me how to utilize my legs, as far as gaining momentum, how to dig’.at dig, v.1
Dock Ellis 201: ‘Who are the best pitchers you’ve ever seen?’ ‘[...] Well, Koufax, Gibson, Marichal. They could deal. They could get down. They could do the do’.at do the do (v.) under do, n.
Dock Ellis 68: ‘Because he got done. Because some people out there hated him.at done, adj.
Dock Ellis 109: [W]e got close [...] We was ready to go down, back to back, together.at go down, v.
Dock Ellis 201: ‘Who are the best pitchers you’ve ever seen?’ ‘[...] Well, Koufax, Gibson, Marichal. They could deal. They could get down. They could do the do’.at get down, v.2
Dock Ellis 67: Dock had this fifty-nine Impala. He done dropped it, and put the mags on it.at drop, v.2
Dock Ellis 82: They gave me an address book! [...] and you need to be an Einstein to cipher it out.at Einstein, n.
Dock Ellis 186: [of a baseball team] Murtaugh’s too old; they’re fat with winning.at fat, adj.
Dock Ellis 189: [I]n a while you begin to realize that the children are real children, and not just short, hoked-up adults.at hoke up (v.) under hoke, v.
Dock Ellis 172: ‘They always said he was jaking.’ In baseball language, jaking is malingering.at jake, v.
Dock Ellis 75: The last of the three losses in L.A. was a laugher, six to nothing.at laugher, n.
(con. early 1960s) Dock Ellis 66: [E]ating at the hamburger joints, riding crazily all over town in their low-rides.at lowrider, n.2
Dock Ellis 89: Last year, when they messed up behind me, I come back and got that man out.at mess up, v.
Dock Ellis In the clubhouse they use racial epithets on each other: nigger, Dago. [...] Jerry Reuss [...] was astonished: ‘You use the big N,’ he said. Anybody who said nigger in Houston, he swore, would have got himself killed.at N, n.
Dock Ellis 216: ‘I never really had to fight for anything. Everything to me in baseball is natural [...] I never really had to put out to be best’.at put out, v.
Dock Ellis 128: I used to pound the pavement. Just out having fun.at pound the pavement (v.) under pound, v.2
Dock Ellis 134: Cash kept up a steady stream of teasing, whenever Dock rolled back from the mound.at roll, v.
Dock Ellis 223: ‘I’ve been out of socket [...] On the shelf. I haven’t been doing anything but running the streets’.at on the shelf under shelf, n.2
Dock Ellis 20: ‘Oh, I won’t write a book,’ he said. He might do a book; he wouldn’t write one. ‘You’re a writer, aren’t you?’ We had smoked each other out.at smoke, v.1
Dock Ellis 133: I realized I had to get out of there. [...] I got on the first thing smoking out of there.at smoke, v.2
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