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Long Season 132: ‘Other pitchers make mistakes and he’s got a million alibis. No excuses where you’re concerned, though. No, sir!’.at alibi, n.
Long Season 132: ‘Other pitchers make mistakes and he’s got a million alibis. No excuses where you’re concerned, though. No, sir!’. Long Season 224: ‘Gene was a little disappointed when he came down from the Cardinals, and he stayed red-assed for about a week’.at red-assed (adj.) under red ass, n.
Long Season 44: ‘Maybe you ought to try learning something instead of poppin’ off, young man’.at pop off (at the mouth), v.
Long Season 67: Nobody pitched a complete game all spring, except me. Against the Yankee "B" team, most of whom are now at Richmond in the international [i.e. minor] league.at B-team, n.
Long Season 125: I want everybody to join in. I don’t want anybody laying back while the rest of us are out on the field fighting.at lay back, v.
Long Season (1975) 230: ‘Come on, Orlando, you bean bandit,’ I yelled at the TV screen. [Ibid.] 269: Bean Bandit A Latin American ballplayer.at bean bandit (n.) under bean, n.1
Long Season (1975) 96: Odd behavior? You’re not just bird-turding there, man!at bird turd, v.
Long Season 75: Smith might have been excused for cursing his luck. If he cursed. Which he doesn’t; although he said ‘bird seed’ once, I recall.at birdseed, n.
Long Season (1975) 105: Your wife says he’s been blastin’ you.at blast, v.1
Long Season 162: I answered his question about enthusiasm with an unnecessary blurb about the great opportunity it was to be associated with him.at blurb, n.
Long Season 33: ‘[I]f one of them [i.e. a pitcher] had a bad day,’ I wouldn’t be surprised if all four got bombed four days in a row’.at bomb, v.1
Long Season 74: Rogers booted another ground ball—five errors in three games.at boot, v.1
Long Season 165: In both games I had breezed for seven, then blown my victory.at breeze, v.1
Long Season 266: Frank Robinson yelled to the driver, ‘What’s the matter, Bussy, you ashamed to be seen with us?’.at bussie, n.
Long Season 191: These two wins kept Philadelphia from climbing over us into seventh [...] our momentary escape from the cellar was greeted like a reprieve.at in the cellar under cellar, n.
Long Season 144: Only three outs to go and I had my first win of the year. It sometimes is hard to get that cherry .at cherry, n.1
Long Season 15: Sitting in front of me [...] spitting tobacco juice into a sand box, was Marv Grissom. [. . . .] I nudged Grissom, and asked for a chew.at chew, n.
Long Season 51: ‘Listen, when you and Phil are rowing that boat out to sea to feed the fish, doesn’t your back bother you?’ He grinned at my dig.at dig, n.1
Long Season viii: ‘Glossary’ [...] Rinky-Dinks [:] On any ball club those players (excluding pitchers) who play irregularly and infrequently.at rinky dink, n.
Long Season 148: I just waved at three pitches and sat down [...] ‘The game’s never over till the last man’s out, Broz,’ said Kellner. His tone of voice indicated a measure of concern for my having taken a dive.at take a dive (v.) under dive, n.1
Long Season 261: ‘Why d’you do me like that, man?’ he asks, with a terribly hurt expression, as if I deliberately got him out!at do, v.1
Long Season 221: ‘He may be a Hot Dog but I don’t know where Scheffing would be without him’.at hot dog, n.2
Long Season 221: He says it was a good pitch, right on the outside corner, but Scheffing really ate his ass out.at eat someone’s ass (v.) under eat, v.
Long Season 16: [A]nxious for an eyeball report of the student technician with the good hands and the high bust.at eyeball, adj.
Long Season 246: But then it is an accepted practice for ball clubs to ‘fix’ their own ball parks. [...] Each manager tries to fix his home field to his best advantage.at fix, v.1
Long Season 158: ‘They’ve got the best lobster you ever tasted and you know it,’ she said. ‘You haven’t been to San Francisco yet, dear girl.’ ‘Get off that, will you, Meat,’ she said.at get off!, excl.
Long Season 242: ‘Now let’s watch Purkey slip the green weenie past Banks.’ [...] ‘I guess it means give the batter something he doesn’t like’.at green weenie (n.) under green, adj.1
Long Season 260: ‘Ya got good stuff today, Broz. Hang in there’ .at hang in there under hang in, v.
Long Season 53: There were some heads missing on the flight to Miami.at head, n.
Long Season vii: ‘Glossary’ [...] Homer[:] To umpires, an insulting word inferring partiality is being given to the home team.at homer, n.1
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