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Man with No Name

By: Wally Amos

...twenty­ minute period, from the vant.age point of the lot where we played baseball, for instance, their presence had to be acknowledged. Some days i... ...always found out. I soon became very willing to give up my chance at the baseball bat; it was a lot better than going home and being hit by Ruby. ... ...sed my cookies as a calling card in meetings with producers and Hollywood executives. My chocolate chip treats were a sure way to make people feel a... ...sed my cookies as a calling card in meetings with producers and Hollywood executives. My chocolate chip treats were a sure way to make peo­ ple feel... ... author has been taking the mystery out of intuition in her trainings for executives, housewives, artists and others for over ten years. $10.95 O...

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Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

By: Steven David Justin Sills

... obtain its edible jewels -the early days of her teaching him how to catch a baseball, how to tie his tie before they went off to Sunday schoolチE He w... ...urse' meant conversation. Haven't you ever been on the bleachers at a great baseball game and yelled out, "What a fucking great hit." The vice-princi... ...stened to their kid talk for half an hour: some other kid who couldn't catch baseballs and whom they attributed as the culprit in losing a game; those... ...n. They would not be alone: there too Little Orphan Annie, the company of executives in charge of manufacturing dodge balls, and the males who had ... ...somewhere he would find a man's interest in him -- one who would take him to baseball games and whom he could confide in, one who could teach him how ... ...ir scout meetings, buying clothes for them, rooting for them on bleachers at baseball games (she had tried rooting for them as a voluntary concession ...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...t curving before it hits the football and sends it out in a straight line. A baseball bat curves before it hits the baseball. The ball first goes i... ...ant. If it travels through the vacuum of intergalactic space, the speed of a baseball is also constant. The speed of an electron orbiting around a... ... follow rules and try to win. Take professional football and professional baseball: two of the most specialized sports in the world. Where one ... ...ot needed then he does not play at all… or the designated runner or hitter in baseball… where any player can be replaced with a certain extra player... ...ss well-paid, and even more dehumanizing. What if both games: football and baseball were games where the players are rotated through every positio... ...araohs, kings, nobles, gentry, astronauts, bankers, billionaires, landowners, executives, stockholders… or subjects, slaves, peasants, subjects, labo... ... in front of that company’s head office. Then the boards and presidents and executives of every major corporation would have their own stupidity fl... ...corporation. This is the rationalized excuse to have incompetent managers and executives running it. But the original small Guilds of the Middle Ag... ...ere by not honouring it would destroy the corporation itself completely. Top executives are never fired. But everyone beneath them can be, and mos...

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The Future of the Internet : And How to Stop It

By: Jonathan Zittrain

...o be able to hook up a base station’s ra- dio to a telephone so that faraway executives could be patched in to the front lines. He invented the Carter... ...ile bicycling, akin to the way some fans at football games drink beer out of baseball caps that have cup holders that hang on either side of the head....

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Babbitt

By: Sinclair Lewis

... He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party. They included a fountain pen and a silver... ...ion. It has an active and smoke-misted billiard room, it is represented by baseball and football teams, and in the pool and the gymnasium a tenth of t... ...the interest on mortgages too low; that Babe Ruth, the emi- nent player of baseball, was a noble man; and that “those two nuts at the Climax Vaudevill... ...hen? That’s the trouble with women, that’s why they don’t make high- class executives; they haven’t any sense of diplomacy. When the proper opportunit... ...ree languages!” said Mrs. Babbitt. “Huh! That’s nothing! So do I—American, baseball, and poker!” “I don’t think it’s nice to be funny about a matter l... ...e was too busy catching up with his office- work to keep it remembered. II Baseball, he determined, would be an excellent hobby. “No sense a man’s wor... ...to drag down his fifty thousand bucks a year, to mingle with the big- gest executives on terms of perfect equality, and to show as big a house and as ...

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Best of Freshman Writing 1 Best of Freshman Writing

By: Lucy Morrison

...the game” (Macmillan 3015). It has been said many tmes by average American baseball fans that they do not think it is fair that the American League is... ...e will certainly risk becoming another hit batter. To surpass all of these baseball politics, base- ball said, “Hey, if you don’t want your pitcher to... ... States would not send the president to fight on the battlefront of a war, baseball teams do not send their pitchers to the plate. Let us imagine a ga... ...as the pitcher, it would be much more exciting. Average, everyday American baseball fan Mike Collura agrees. He sends a comment to the “Voice of the F... ... in both the field and at bat? David Namec states in his book The Rules of Baseball: Almost every baseball analyst and historian is disturbed, however... ... times, a ratings battle is prob- ably less of a priority for news company executives. The public also watches the news now in search of constant upda...

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