His barehandedness was not unusual. Unlike position players, pitchers had in general been slow to seek the protection of a glove.

That went all right, I suppose.

Steffi is a tricolor King Charles spaniel, an archetypal lap dog and love sponge, barely a foot high and no more than 10 pounds.

a. 1913, African American song, I Been ’Buked and I Been Scorned