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Jane Leavy
American Writer
Born: Dec 26, 1951
Become Day Father Game Great Sports
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Trauma fractures comprehension as a pebble shatters a windshield. The wound at the site of impact spreads across the field of vision, obscuring reality and challenging belief. Jane Leavy
Reality Vision Field Wound Impact Comprehension Spreads Site Across Trauma Belief Challenging Pebble
Cape Cod baseball dates back to the time of the Civil War. A poster at the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown touts a round-trip train ride from Hyannis to Sandwich on July 4, 1885 - the occasion of the 14th annual baseball game between Sandwich and Barnstable. Jane Leavy
War Time Game Ride Back Poster Civil Civil War Dates Between Annual Occasion Hall July Fame Train Cape Sandwich Baseball Baseball Game
Some scholars attribute the decline in nicknaming to the evolutionary process that turned folk heroes into entrepreneurs. The truth is: George Herman Ruth, the namely-est guy ever, exhausted our supply of hyperbole. Jane Leavy
Truth Truth Is Heroes Exhausted Our Evolutionary Folk Some Guy Ruth Entrepreneurs Hyperbole Scholars Supply Attribute George Process Decline Turned Ever
The world is not kind to whistleblowers - a term of art with particular resonance in football, the most hierarchical and repressive of organized sports, a world of 'systems' and 'programs' and scripted plays, where reading a medical report requires a security clearance, and practice fields are patrolled like Guantanamo Bay. Jane Leavy
Art Sports World Practice Reading Resonance Programs Hierarchical Systems Bay Kind Security Football Clearance Term Particular Like Most Report Where Repressive Scripted Fields Requires Organized Medical Guantanamo Guantanamo Bay Plays
By the 1880s, baseball was entrenched in the Cape's sandy soil. Semipro teams, commonplace before World War I, were organized into the first Cape Cod League in 1923 - Orleans joined the four original teams five years later. By 1940, the league had foundered on financial shoals and disbanded. Jane Leavy
War World Financial Soil First Before Later Entrenched Joined Had League Were Years Five Commonplace Cape Sandy Organized Original Teams Baseball Orleans Four World War World War I
The modern era of Cape Cod baseball dawned in 1963 when the league became a showcase for the collegiate elite. Jane Leavy
Dawned League Became Era Modern Modern Era Cape Showcase Baseball Elite
In 1927, my father descended the heights and took his place as the newly appointed water boy for his beloved New York football Giants. Jane Leavy
Water Father Heights Took Giants Football New Boy His York New York Place Newly Descended Appointed Beloved
On winter Sundays when I was a child, we waited for my father to return from his tennis game with bagels and sturgeon and for my mother to object when the 1 P.M. Giants game began. Jane Leavy
Game Winter Mother Father Giants Sundays Object Tennis Return His Waited Began Child
For most of my adult life, I dreaded the day I woke up and saw my mother in the mirror. It never happened. But, I had grown into my father. I shouldn't have been surprised. Everyone always said I was the son he never had. Jane Leavy
Life Day Son Mother Father Mirror Everyone Saw Dreaded Adult Adult Life Never Had He Most Said Always Woke Surprised Been Up Happened Grown
Wherever Mantle went in the great metropolis - Danny's Hideaway, the Latin Quarter, the '21' Club, the Stork Club, El Morocco, Toots Shor's - his preferred drink was waiting when he walked through the door. Reporters waited at his locker for monosyllabic bons mots. Boys clustered by the players' gate, hoping to touch him. Jane Leavy
Great Waiting Club Latin Danny Locker Hoping Touch Drink Through Morocco He Him Boy Quarter His Waited Metropolis Walked Reporters Door Wherever Preferred Mantle Players Gate
Mantle didn't want to stick out, but he did. He didn't wish to be treated as special, but he was. He was uncomfortable being the center of attention, but he was the centerfielder for the most famous franchise in sports. Jane Leavy
Sports Wish Franchise Out Uncomfortable He Attention Most Stick Did Being Famous Want Center Mantle Special Treated
Led by a new generation of edgy sportswriters like Lipsyte, we found new purpose in the great issues of the day - race, equal opportunity, drugs, and labor disputes. We became personality journalists, medical writers, and business reporters. Jane Leavy
Day Great Business Generation Personality Opportunity Purpose Writers Journalists New Like Equal Equal Opportunity Edgy Became Sportswriter New Generation Issues Led Labor Reporters Race Found Medical Disputes
Sports journalism is in the midst of an identity crisis so profound that we no longer know whether we're made up of one word or two. Jane Leavy
Sports Word Made Crisis One Word Journalism Longer Know Identity Up Whether Midst Profound Two

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