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Show II i I ' f KNOCK COVER OFF BALL In the earlier days of baseball, base-ball, before the adjective foundry found-ry had been so hard at work as It has In recent years, and before be-fore there were young men who sat down and curdled their brains devising baseball phrases, the popular way of saying that a team could bat was to announce an-nounce that It "knocked the cover. off the ball." A thirty-third thirty-third degree bug of the Order of Bugs wants to know If such a thing ever happened In a regular reg-ular big league game. It did. Delehanty once knocked the cover cov-er off a ball and the cover was fielded to first by the pitcher while the ball, unwinding yarn at every jump, was pounced upon up-on by an outfielder. Everybody got tangled up before the play was adjusted. - |