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121 today. On Thursday, I showed my class the AL league stats for 1920.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/AL/1920.shtml
I was emphatically trying to focus their attention on the fact that Ruth out-homered every other team in the league, but the magnitude of that seemed to escape them.
― clemenza, Saturday, 6 February 2016 17:22 (eight years ago) link
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I've been intermittently struggling with The Sound and the Fury for months. I finish other books, pick it up for a couple of weeks, put it down for a few more, resume again. I tried in university 40 years ago, gave up in the middle of the first section. I feel like it's something I have to do.
Never knew Ruth turns up (third section, the least obscure):
"Well," Mac says, "I reckon you've got your money on the Yankees this year."
"What for?" I says.
"The Pennant," he says. "Not anything in the League can beat them."
"Like hell there's not," I says. "They're shot," I says. "You think a team can be that lucky for ever?"
"I don't call it luck," Mac says.
"I wouldn't bet on any team that fellow Ruth played on," I says. "Even if I knew it was going to win."
"Yes?" Mac says.
"I can name you a dozen men in either League who're more valuable than he is," I says.
"What have you got against Ruth?" Mac says.
"Nothing," I says. "I haven't got any thing against him. I don't even like to look at his picture."
In view of the speaker, an unmistakable and ugly subtext there.
― clemenza, Saturday, 1 July 2023 16:06 (ten months ago) link