WIDDERSHINS

Archive · #1 09-30-2004, 05:35 PM

Posted By: Julie

What a wonderful word. Means "counterclockwise"

COUN-TER-CLOCK-WISE

"Turn back, turn back the hands of time
Where, oh where, is Clem Lebine?
Give me the lead that once was mine--
Lets do it over again!"

Archive · #2 09-30-2004, 05:57 PM

Posted By: MW

Spot reserved for later poetic inspiration.

Archive · #3 09-30-2004, 06:02 PM

Posted By: runscott

"The Boys of Summer" - I think you could even be a Yankees fan and enjoy this.

Archive · #4 09-30-2004, 06:04 PM

Posted By: johnny bb

counter clock wise "if i could only get that pitch back"

Archive · #5 09-30-2004, 06:11 PM

Posted By: Julie

Still love it--the first baseball book I ever read.

Archive · #6 09-30-2004, 06:19 PM

Posted By: runscott

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!

Archive · #7 09-30-2004, 06:21 PM

Posted By: johnny bb

"summer of 41" most excellent

Archive · #8 09-30-2004, 06:24 PM

Posted By: johnny bb

the actual title is "baseball in 41" by robert w. creamer- i think this is the one you are thinking about-

Archive · #9 09-30-2004, 06:59 PM

Posted By: dennis

"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!

Archive · #10 10-01-2004, 06:17 AM

Posted By: Peter Thomas

Julie I think it means in a direction oposite to the apparent direction of the sun.

Archive · #11 10-01-2004, 08:06 AM

Posted By: Julie

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.

Archive · #12 10-01-2004, 08:17 AM

Posted By: runscott

not to mention my Hindu temple and maypole circumventing.

Archive · #13 10-01-2004, 09:30 AM

Posted By: Peter Thomas

Julie only in northern hemisphere would this be true. Other direction in southern hemisphere.

Archive · #14 10-01-2004, 09:46 AM

Posted By: Gilbert Maines

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 = ?

Archive · #15 10-01-2004, 09:58 AM

Posted By: David Smith

Hey, if my shins were any widder, I would have to buy new pants!

Archive · #16 10-01-2004, 10:01 AM

Posted By: Anthony

Summer of '49 by David Halberstam.
2nd favorite baseball book of all time (Nothing beats The Boys of Summer)
Don't waste your time with his next baseball one (Halberstam's) October '64.

Archive · #17 10-01-2004, 12:51 PM

Posted By: Darren J Duet

A little known fact that Satchell Paige's oringinal quote was, "Don't widdershins, something might be coming at you from a different direction."

Archive · #18 10-03-2004, 01:50 PM

Posted By: Julie Vognar

and I always look over my shoulder when I pass it. Sort of like throwing salt over your shoulder if you spill it.

Archive · #19 10-04-2004, 12:48 PM

Posted By: Bob Lemke

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.

Archive · #20 10-04-2004, 01:09 PM

Posted By: Julie

Archive · #21 10-05-2004, 09:55 AM

Posted By: Gilbert Maines

Auf Widdershins to this post.