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发表于2024-11-04
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PREFACE<br > !<br > ~h~ insult is every bit as strong a baseball tradition as the<br > squeeze play or warm beer. Fans heckle players, players rip<br > managers (and vice versa), owners ride their teams, sports.<br > ~writers rip Whatever s in sight, and everybody gets down on<br > the ~umps. A good baseball game is a lot like a pie fight:<br > Ew~ryone hits, and gets hit.<br > Baseball s Greatest Insults is, in a sense, a verbal free-for-<br > ~11, a collection of the best lines to emerge from these often<br > nasly exchanges. Every now and then, especially during<br > election time, columnists lament the death of the insult. While<br > this may be true in politics-American politics, at any rate--<br > it is most certainly not the case in our other national pastime.<br > The insult is alive and flourishing in baseball today.<br > On the whole, baseball invective is fairly sophisticated too.<br >Many put-downs are, of course, unprintable or of the aw-so s-<br >your-old-man variety, but plenty are sharp, bitchy and even<br >wise. Oscar Wilde or Dorothy Parker, if they d been baseball<br >fans, might have been pleased to take credit for some of the<br >cracks on these pages. Surely, they are as vicious as anything<br >those two ever said.<br > 3i~e casual fan might be surprised at how downright hostile<br >I - ~f~l:,aJl pe~.,pl~, can be. Away kom the cameras, things can<br >I~ ,-,~ hoL Tempers ge~ out of hand, harsh words fly. When<br > ~ ~ , o~,1, z,l)oh:,gies (or denials) are issued, and a happy<br > ; ..J th, e~,Orc affair. Lel the public relations crowd<br >
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Baseballs Greatest Insults 在线电子书 pdf 下载 txt下载 epub 下载 mobi 下载 2024