NEWS & VIEWS
NEWS& VIEWS Batter Up! The shrimp hit the fan down Maine way, when columnist Thomas P. McDonnell in the Church World, Portland's diocesan newspaper, indulged in a bit of summertime frivolity by...
...A veteran, Berrigan has been active since the early days of the campaign, when few were getting into the game at all...
...The cartoonist went into advertising-a faster league, and a better paying one...
...He commits his share of errors in any given season, but has led the league in double plays for years...
...All I did was take off the sombrero and put on a Boston Red Sox (his hometown team) baseball cap and add the bat," said McDonnell...
...Bishop Edward C. O'Leary -the Bowie Kuhn, if I'm allowed, of Portland-was un-amused, and zinged a letter to the Church World saying that "while [McDonnell's column] may be properly understood in the sense in which it is written in strictly clerical circles, I do not consider such an article proper consumption for the public domain...
...The Catholic Church has always had a built-in sense of the family joke...
...A peppery performer at all times, he gets on base like a good lead-off man should...
...Currently swings a hot bat, and is not above taking a bad rap for somebody else's throwing error...
...JOHN DEEDY...
...Fulton J. 'Teevee' Sheen, second base, batting sixth...
...A good hitter...
...Cooke plays right field comfortably enough, but can't hit...
...He's recognized as the spirit of the team...
...Caricature...
...They'll deny it, but team officials are looking for a good trade...
...Cardinal Leon 'Joe' Sue-nens, catcher, batting seventh...
...Theodore 'Ted' Hesburgh, pitcher...
...He can go either way, left or right, and frequently does...
...Thirty, love...
...Backup receiver is the very aggressive Dom Helder Ca-mara, possibly the best in any league, including the tough Ecumenical All-Star division...
...Later that evening they became engaged in the car-park at the Tennis Club Dance...
...The shrimp hit the fan down Maine way, when columnist Thomas P. McDonnell in the Church World, Portland's diocesan newspaper, indulged in a bit of summertime frivolity by naming a Roman Catholic All-Star Baseball Team...
...Bishop Peter L. 'Pete' Gerety (Newark), first base, batting third...
...Caricature . . . in poor taste," wrote the bishop...
...A delegation of charismatic cheerleaders is said to have restored Papa Montini's confidence in his coaching job...
...It all started when McDonnell noticed a John Knox in the Detroit Tigers' line-up...
...Match Point " Two notorious casualties of our time, comments the Times Literary Supplement ruefully, are Latin and newspapers...
...McDonnell has survived the come-backers, but the experience leaves him mildly disconcerted...
...Even when he strikes out in a crucial situation, as he frequently does, big Jack Wright strikes out with style...
...Cardinal John 'Jack' Wright is the designated hitter...
...His mind imagined a Martin Luther slipping curves over the Vatican's home plate...
...McDonnell's is a Chester-tonian assumption, and perhaps never as true as Chesterton said and we have always liked to believe...
...I have for many years taken solace in the knowledge that the Catholic Church has long enjoyed a quality that many other churches lack," he explained, "a sense of humor, a sense of the divine folly, and a capacity to laugh at itself, now and then, and to do so without obvious malice...
...A real ace...
...a farm system full of Jesuit hopefuls...
...He is said to have class, but most observers are waiting to see him perform in his new position...
...I'd be very reluctant to think that our emergence into the postconciliar age has also wiped out our sense of humor...
...Recently traded to Washington, Lally is a relative newcomer to the big leagues...
...She's the tennis champion who beat the subaltern in Betjeman's poem, The Subaltern's Love Song: "How mad I am, sad I am, glad that you won...
...TLS was no help...
...Led the league in stolen bases...
...He's an authentic heavyweight and fills the desig-nated-hitter role to perfection...
...Msgr...
...Who can contemplate without a frisson of admiration that masterful maiden Joan Hunter Dunn...
...Francis J. 'Lollipops' Lolly, center field, batting eighth...
...It's no secret that coaches would like to sign Marshall 'Message' McLuhan to the position, who would be the first layman to break the clerical barrier, but chances are slight...
...On that occasion, the public orator acclaimed him as the man whose Muse non quadriga vehitur sed birota (rides not in a chariot, but on a bicycle), and asked: Quis te contemplari potest tremula sine admiratione, o puella potentissima Joan Hunter Dunn...
...His weakness is swinging at bad pitches...
...His specialties are the knuckle ball and the fast ball...
...Hans 'King' Kung, left field, batting cleanup...
...He hasn't played much at the keystone position in recent games...
...Before you could say "play ball," McDonnell had come up with the following club: "Andrew 'Pepper" Greeley, shortstop, lead-off batter...
...An aggressive player, critics say his weakness is charging ground balls...
...Who's Joan Hunter Dunn...
...Adding to O'Leary's un-amusement was the column's illustration, a montage showing Cardinal Wright in baseball get-up...
...Dan 'The Poet" Berrigan, third base, batting second...
...So it is hardly surprising, says TLS, that Acta Diurna, a termly Latin newspaper for British schools, will not appear again...
...A steady but always inspired performer...
...Hesburgh has great control...
...John 'Papa' Montini, coach, says that the team's major weakness is its failure to pick up the signals from the bench...
...Cardinal Terence 'Terry' Cooke, right field, batting fifth...
...Sheen's weakness is looking for the cameras...
...Handles arrogant reporters very well...
...Perhaps bis biggest problem is to induce a winning spirit in the team...
...in poor taste," said the archbishop...
...Writes best-sellers in the off season...
...Very conscientious and determined, he is totally involved in the game when others seem to be taking it easy...
...McDonnell responded that no offense was intended, including the matter of the photo, originally of the cardinal posing in sombrero...
...He was picked up on waivers from the Administration All-Stars after his unconditional release by the White House front office...
...I once knew a humor cartoonist who lost his job back in the 1950s when officialdom was unamused by his sketch of a wind-blown nun and a sailor passing on a sidewalk, which had the sailor calling, "Hi ya, matie...
...Also known as 'Cookie,' he was recently acquired to replace Dan Lyons, S.J., who has been sent down to the minors for drifting too far to his right...
...TLS takes consolation, however, that there is still the odd occasion and singular place where Latin is bandied with elegance and wit-as when Sir John Betjeman, the poet laureate, was awarded an honorary degree this summer by Trinity College, Dublin...
...a sainted Tom More gloving 'em down at first base...
...Kung led the league in home runs during the Vatican II Series, but hasn't hit much since then...
...Tends to waste energy in the way he plays left field...
...No one has ever claimed that Andy Greeley can't even get to first base, though many have claimed you can't get to first base with Andy...
Vol. 102 • September 1975 • No. 13
