"They nip, top, wallop, trounce, rout, down, subdue, smash, drub, paste, trip, crush, curb, whitewash, erase, bop, slam, batter, check, hammer, pop. wham, clout, and blank the visitors. Or they zero them. They jolt them…."
Unlike TV, baseball prose and poetry help create and perpetuate the game's heroes.
Posted April 26, 1990
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