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09-30-2004, 05:35 PM
Posted By: <b>Julie</b><p>What a wonderful word. Means "counterclockwise"<br /><br /><br />COUN-TER-CLOCK-WISE<br /><br />"Turn back, turn back the hands of time<br /> Where, oh where, is Clem Lebine?<br /> Give me the lead that once was mine--<br /> Lets do it over again!" <br /><br /> <img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/jphotos/RBshot.JPG">
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09-30-2004, 05:57 PM
Posted By: <b>MW</b><p>Spot reserved for later poetic inspiration.
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09-30-2004, 06:02 PM
Posted By: <b>runscott</b><p>"The Boys of Summer" - I think you could even be a Yankees fan and enjoy this.
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09-30-2004, 06:04 PM
Posted By: <b>johnny bb</b><p> counter clock wise "if i could only get that pitch back"
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09-30-2004, 06:11 PM
Posted By: <b>Julie</b><p>Still love it--the first baseball book I ever read.
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09-30-2004, 06:19 PM
Posted By: <b>runscott</b><p>try the one about Williams and Dimaggio - I don't remember the title, but it really gives you the feel of what it must have been like to live at that time. Of course I'm guessing!
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09-30-2004, 06:21 PM
Posted By: <b>johnny bb</b><p> "summer of 41" most excellent
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09-30-2004, 06:24 PM
Posted By: <b>johnny bb</b><p> the actual title is "baseball in 41" by robert w. creamer- i think this is the one you are thinking about-
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09-30-2004, 06:59 PM
Posted By: <b>dennis</b><p>"when the boys came back"-baseball in 1946 by fredrick turner--sure the other book could be "the summer of 49" old time baseball books are great!
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10-01-2004, 06:17 AM
Posted By: <b>Peter Thomas</b><p>Julie I think it means in a direction oposite to the apparent direction of the sun.
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10-01-2004, 08:06 AM
Posted By: <b>Julie</b><p>which makers it counterclockwise. Like you circumambulate a Hindu temple, or a Maypole, widdershins. BUT--anything anyone knows about the ORIGINS of the word, please tell. I only see it in context.
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10-01-2004, 08:17 AM
Posted By: <b>runscott</b><p>not to mention my Hindu temple and maypole circumventing.
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10-01-2004, 09:30 AM
Posted By: <b>Peter Thomas</b><p>Julie only in northern hemisphere would this be true. Other direction in southern hemisphere.
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10-01-2004, 09:46 AM
Posted By: <b>Gilbert Maines</b><p>Not really not knowing what is up and down, which is it? Straight up and down - the computer nerds call it portrait, or landscape? Wait, sideways = landscape! Why change things just causa a bunch of nerds? Next they will be collecting baseball cards. Then what will horizontal = ?
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10-01-2004, 09:58 AM
Posted By: <b>David Smith</b><p>Hey, if my shins were any widder, I would have to buy new pants! <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>
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10-01-2004, 10:01 AM
Posted By: <b>Anthony</b><p>Summer of '49 by David Halberstam. <br />2nd favorite baseball book of all time (Nothing beats The Boys of Summer)<br /> Don't waste your time with his next baseball one (Halberstam's) October '64.
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10-01-2004, 12:51 PM
Posted By: <b>Darren J Duet</b><p>A little known fact that Satchell Paige's oringinal quote was, "Don't widdershins, something might be coming at you from a different direction."
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10-03-2004, 01:50 PM
Posted By: <b>Julie Vognar</b><p>and I always look over my shoulder when I pass it. Sort of like throwing salt over your shoulder if you spill it.
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10-04-2004, 12:48 PM
Posted By: <b>Bob Lemke</b><p>I think I know thw Widder Shins . . . she lives across Possum Holler from my place. Her late husband was a fine man, although he liked to nip at the jug a little too often.
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10-04-2004, 01:09 PM
Posted By: <b>Julie</b><p><img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>
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10-05-2004, 09:55 AM
Posted By: <b>Gilbert Maines</b><p>Auf Widdershins to this post.