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March 21 - March 24, 2025
That night, while pondering the topic of how things could go so wrong so quickly, I would encounter a fact that many Americans probably do not realize. People in Milwaukee do not consume beer in conspicuously vast quantities. But they do drink one hell of a lot of brandy.
A big leaguer doesn’t simply hit an occasional pitcher hard. He “smokes his tits,� one of the milder expressions that color conversational patterns of players.
Comiskey got a bum rap. With its Brit-like ivy walls, Wrigley was and is a mecca for closet quiche freaks. But Cosmiskey had a guileless and unfeigned brass knuckles feel to it.
Once again, the fact was underscored that the Texas Rangers were not really a baseball franchise but rather a Kurt Vonnegut novel.
