The double, by pinch-hitter Ruben Sierra, curved sharply toward foul ground in deep left field but then changed its mind and hit the line instead—a big hit, and a smile at last from the great and enigmatically difficult game.

He charg'd through an army of lawyers, sometimes with sword in hand, at other times nuzzling like an eel in the mud.

I ſtay too long ; but here my Father comes : / A double bleſſing is a double grace; / Occaſion ſmiles vpon a ſecond leaue.

It is almost 50 years since Western dancers first tried to cure the Russians of this crashingly vulgar habit.