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"The Rover Bucks at Sport; or Team-work That Tells," Part J
(I have a very early day tomorrow, traveling, so tomorrow's episode is being posted tonight.)
Stories of this particular type always have to have The Big Game...!
Those that know me know that I'm very much a diehard baseball fan. There are five separate baseball cultural references in this segment, one of which is blindingly obvious, though the other four less so, and two of those four require a fair amount of familiarity with baseball lore to get.
Walt46 got three of them very easily.
"Foxden's" is a parody of "Wisdens Crickerter's Almanack," the standard reference guide for that sport. It's also readily apparent that the Clawball referred to here in the post-ball equivalent of the knuckleball. (One of the "Eight Men Out" from the Black Sox scandal was a knuckleball pitcher.)
Concluding ep on Tuesday!
Stories of this particular type always have to have The Big Game...!
Those that know me know that I'm very much a diehard baseball fan. There are five separate baseball cultural references in this segment, one of which is blindingly obvious, though the other four less so, and two of those four require a fair amount of familiarity with baseball lore to get.
Walt46 got three of them very easily."Foxden's" is a parody of "Wisdens Crickerter's Almanack," the standard reference guide for that sport. It's also readily apparent that the Clawball referred to here in the post-ball equivalent of the knuckleball. (One of the "Eight Men Out" from the Black Sox scandal was a knuckleball pitcher.)
Concluding ep on Tuesday!
Category Story / Fantasy
Species Canine (Other)
Size 120 x 87px
File Size 11.7 kB
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