OCR Text |
Show TRAP SHOOTERS SLANG VOCABULARY Baseball fans are slangy in their baseball talk. Their slang is picturesque pictur-esque and finely descriptive, but for Teal unadulterated slang you must pi'.p the trapshooters the palm Listen to Inis from a well known gunner: "Yes, sir, I toed the firing line, put the iron to my shoulder, drew a hum-dinger hum-dinger from the box and killed it The second saucer was a lazy boy, lying straight away, but I went to sleep and the pigeon nested itself In the grass. The next mud pie sailed to left quarter, but the old peaBhooter simply knocked the fuzz off. The fourth dicky bird was smothered as soon as it was hatched. Then a cripple crip-ple fluttered out and died. Next came a right-wheeling streaker and 1 pulverized pul-verized it." |