Lucky to be a Octobrist

...Still is...

...Not that it made a whole hell of see if I was doctoring it...

...What do you figure Eliot meant by calling the Mississippi River a great brown god...

...To "protect" me he traded me and along a whole lot better when you stop showers early that day...

...I shut out the things, scuffing it up and putting things a lot of difference...

...had...

...No one could musical score for this silent comedy is "Lady Be Good...

...out the Braves...

...Jolly Cholly" Grimm came out ing up, Ernie ("Big Ernie") Lombardi the dugout till the next inning, and, of every inning yelling at "Beans" Rearnoticed the ball was "doing" things...

...Peckinpaugh...

...The absinthe worked away with it once...

...Albook his ex-wife (Meryl Streep) has written about their di- len's insight into himself is what makes him funny, but also vorce...

...The Now she's with the William Morris Agency...

...Once in Boston it was and they two-and-o count...

...I guess you could Barleycorn didn't have him down on a mound to waste a minute...

...You're gone...

...Well, let me tell you something, Hellwig," he said...

...could pay a substitute to go to Philadel- rists" on a Sunday morning in time to Another thing...

...Easy...

...What makes his pitiless attack on us enjoyseaside resort, where there are real sailboats in the able, though, is his willingness to aim the worst of it at background, a similar shot through the store window shows himself...

...Suke told me Mister Rickey had assigned my contract to Valdosta and I reported to the "Guelphs" the very next morning...

...cle whip salad dressing, silicones and with the toenail of St...

...Leo started me in the first them four fingers when the train passed told my bird maybe that'd cool him off...

...and there was no theological reason I He found that trade created a hole and he "Oscar," he told me that first day, couldn't use it in a game...

...Let's show it to Mister Peckin- for Lou "The Mad Russian" Novakov That's how I met the immortal Roger paugh," says "Big Ernie...

...It taking off their clothes and burning them keeps going like that...

...He back to Brooklyn which had picked up thing was it helped my pitching, losing put my bird in the dugout water cooler, my contract...

...We got a rule here carries phia for you and I paid $100 to Al suit up for a foiled coup...

...Basil...

...Funny hitter...

...And me still the fifth inning my bird was getting on ing the toenail of St...

...Cardinals...

...What "Beans" didn't three days later he was back at the Astor know was that the "monk" leading those eating those tripes and drinking that wine Doukhobor "pilgrims" was old Bobo and writing that telegram to Harding...

...The scene is not only done in long shot, but in silhouette weakly, at how puerile his own feelings are compared to hers...

...That's 3 August 1979: 439 the way I was then-fast as hell and could run all day...

...One of those scenes done completely in long play musical chairs with her emotions the way they do...

...During that immortal drugs, hollandaise, tranquilizers, But I already had what I needed...

...Then prevail against this kind of wit...

...The Swiss Guards seen Mountain Landis might declare me a free member that group of "pilgrims" who Commonweal: 440 came out to the mound a couple of times say "Dizzy" was superstitious cause during the game...

...Big Ernie" called to "Fat Tristan, the third-sacker...

...Once for a joke Bobo (Buck) tion it...

...interchangeable, and therefore always doomed...

...goes for veterans, same as rookies...

...five acupuncture needles, naval jelly, had me kneel down on the pitching rub- one-hitters, one two-hitter, eighteen Spanish fly, Johnson's baby oil, laser ber for his final "blessing" and while pounds of honeycomb tripe, two cases of beams, penicillin cultures, tabasco, a he's giving me the "blessing" he's rub- Rothschild 1918 and telegraph bills micro-wave oven, liquid wrench, mirabing the old horsehide against the ikon...

...I recall one day he In Vladivostok I got pretty close to the Say what a sweet team that was...

...I had a pet burning, hypnotic eyes, all the while Newsom nailed my shoes to the caboose bird, a parrot, though, and along about scraping the ball against an ikon containof the Georgia Pacific train...

...Pick up those park, sent Harding a nightletter and shut ber, enzymes, the new so-called miracle burning rags and headfor the showers...

...3 August 1979: 441...

...going to be my money pitcher until you drafted me...

...I played in the Vladivostok outlaw the same time and in the same respect...

...the scene where Isaac and Mary first begin to fall for one COLIN L. WESTERBECK, JR...

...FROM THE FORTHCOMING MEMOIRS OF HONUS HELLWIG Lucky to be an Octobrist WITH THE HELP OF STEPHEN DARST didn't talk English too good and he thought Mister Rickey was the Crown I BROKE into organized ball with the North Africa...

...That's why we trust him, with all our secrets...

...Just a way he said it wasn't a clear case of possession traded out of his organization previously...

...on the mound too...

...Streetcars" got tag- Cubbies on three bingles and "Beans" on it to make it curve...

...batters started going blind on outside though, "Jolly Cholly" is out there right Emilion and let's play ball...

...Louis, running all the way...

...I game of a double-header against the over my left hand...

...and a kind of semi-darkness that are mimicked a little later by It's all so silly, and so genuinely poignant, too...

...And "Beans" not far behind...

...I shipment of Iranian caviar on the thumb streak "Dizzy" lunched at the Astor on tried soaking the ball in absinthe I got with just a soup con of basil can make that tripes a la mode de Caen and a bottle of from Tristan "Fat Tristan" Tzara...

...must have stopped play a dozen times Newsom would try anything to "doctor" looking at that ball, but he never did the ball...

...In the off-season the Dunbarton Oaks Dijon mustard...

...My called for four million dollars to be Mrs...

...He killed and I was trying anything to hang on...

...He has just spotted there on display a analyst could inspire such complete confidence from us...

...In those days, though, you I joined the St...

...Peck and me always got Mister Peckinpaugh thought it might Turned out the Czar thought he was getalong swell after that only he always be possessed of the devil but an exorcist ting "Seward's Folly," which he had called me Oscar Mellilo...

...The day he started the- ing trouble getting ikons out of Russia...

...Yet tions, an indecisiveness, which Allen's montage expresses...

...One, two, a religious procession, and he let me get three...

...This is a ball the bottle in the cab on the way to the was doctoring that ball with whale blubpark, not a holy place...

...after them...

...Coming together and splitting up look much unsure of their own intentions...

...You're Honus Hellwig...

...Doc" Fothergill, Urban Shocker, Eppa Rixey, all to the South of France for the month, Rasputin could heal _anything, slide Bobo (Buck) Newsom, Dolph Luque, and struck out the side...

...You rePope Leo XIII...

...So no one said a word...

...Mister Mack," I said, "I'm Honus Hellwig...

...table talking to my old man...

...In a sub rosa way, relationships like these between the In this film Allen's way of keeping his sense of humor about scenes inform Isaac's relationships with the women in his life...

...There isn't anybody Allen later, as Isaac happens to be walking by a bookstore at some couldn't devastate...

...Bobo skein "Dizzy" had nine shut-outs...

...When I was in them...

...amounting to $1,487.19...

...That's right," I said...

...because of Allen's rendering of the scene, we can't help all of a We get the feeling that his relationships with women are sudden taking these people more seriously...

...Big Ernie," hearing a motorPresident Harding and went out to Ebbets third-baseman and a darn good one when cycle delivery man pull up outside the Field and shut out the Cubs on four hits...

...Bob motioned the whole outfield in, sent 'em team trainer, "Doc" Rasputin...

...to Vladivostok for one hundred and forty rule is that a thing cannot be and not be at Al was called "Streetcars" because he years...

...You're gone...

...He's so pathetic it's laughable-so Good " pathetic, in fact, that it's pathetic...

...I "pilgrims...

...I said d-coned if I knew...

...Petersburg "Octobshow me you ain't my money pitcher...

...Not while Roger games of a doubleheader and get drunk and give me my outright release along Peckinpaugh's running things...

...Cuisinart fixing up a batch of sauce bank account, a $400,000 no-interest I was nine years old when Mister Ric- Bearnaise which next to grits and collard loan and the bottled beer franchise for key offered me that contract with the greens was my favorite eating...

...Clyde Sukeforth caught up to me about Fort Wayne and gave me the stop sign but I couldn't put on the brakes until I slid into Indianapolis, safe...

...Beans" was a Caen, Rothschild 1918, wire to Harding...

...And that with the stewardesses...

...a kindergarten teacher who got heavily into drugs...

...Buck (Bobo) ged for a double, bottom of the ninth...

...I (Buck) Newsom himself, and Bobo slips don't need to tell you fans what happened me the ikon while the "pilgrims" are next...

...And that "Streetcars" Woberly to take my place...

...Again the musical accompaniment is "Lady Be what makes him serious...

...My old man for St...

...He had a no-hitter going one day slider, fingers across the old horsehide Buck (Bobo) Newsom and "Kiki" and it was considered bad luck to men- seams while staring at the batter with Cuyler...

...This seventeen-year-old is more stable than Isaac, seventeen-year-old with whom Isaac is having an affair when Mary and Yale put together...

...But he always treated me square...

...She went to Schwartz's window to point out a little sailboat to the boy, who San Francisco, was in EST for awhile, then became a Moony...

...One day in Pittsburgh In the second game of that double- Conference ruled the spitball illegal in all I'm nursing a one-run lead, bottom of the header "Dizzy" Butterworth started that lands formerly belonging to the Mahatma ninth, no out, bases full of Buccos, and great streak of consecutive wins that led and what with the Revolution I was hav- I'm working real slow hoping that a to the pennant...

...Honus, your string's run out," "Beans" said, "I want you to collect your bottles of grease and salad oil andacupuncture needles and that drug: cabinet and the absinthe...

...Don't shot is an early one where Isaac, disturbed by the difference in be so mature," Isaac pleads with her when she's reluctant to their ages, tries to warn Tracy not to become too attached to take him back after he's hurt her, and even he has to smile, him...

...liked to ride the "streetcars" between league until Judge Landis smoked me out Not on this ball c1ul...

...We see Isaac and Mary sitting together on a park clinging to the side of our perception as if to the wall of a bench now just as we saw Isaac and Tracy on the couch in his building where they have just stepped out on a window ledge apartment earlier...

...Well, "Streetcars" got hot...

...He the Borgia Boys, Big Poison and Little "Streetcars" was crazy but he was ec- showed me a new way to throw the hard Poison, Heine Meine, Milo Candini, centric...

...Basil...

...But before I got wanted it back but a deal's a deal and the "you're my money pitcher and you're a chance I was notified Philadelphia had, was stuck with "Fulton's Folly...

...Tripes a la mode de in a pile on the mound...

...Another shutout, a two hitter...

...I wouldn't say burns, a sore soup-bone, hemophilia...

...There is a certain confusion in Isaac's emojust another of those off camera voices in Isaac's life...

...refused to leave Locke-Ober's until they My high hard one was gone by then "That's,it," "Beans" says to the dug up a bottle of Rothschild...

...We course, by that time my bird had don, the umpire, to examine the ball to was always trying to get the ball to "do" drowned...

...Fat ball dipsy-do and left-overs can be heated Chateau Lafitte Rothschild 1918...

...Fulton's Folly" to the Czar Nicholas I calling me Mister Mack...

...You want horsehides into a private audience with Mister Rickey heard Judge Kenesaw to know how I did it...

...We're going to get what he was up to and sent Buck to the agent...

...I was one sorry southpaw by the "Streetcars" real good about the no- released from Vladivostok I hotfooted it time that train pulled into Atlanta...

...I'll never forget in our kitchen As soon as my old man put his John STEPHEN DARST has written for the New York at the farm Mister Rickey sitting at the Hancock on that piece of paper I lit out Times, Harper's and other journals...

...himself, his perspective on his life, is finally provided by Before Mary there's Tracy (Mariel Hemingway), a Tracy...

...We was all sent an automatic fine if you break it...

...I'm signing the bill of lading for the caviar but it's' too late...

...My first wife," Isaac explains with the typical its emotion...

...In a way Yale's phone call is the same here...

...insistently starts pointing out a much larger one to him...

...and two dancing bears to be named later...

...Well that does it...

...Hugh D. Auchincloss at Ham- ma was in the comer bent over the spread over three generations, a Swiss mersmith Farms...

...My contract spent summers with my grandmother, that rhubarb was straightened out...

...And if Eliot and Yeats don't watch themselves, they're gone too...

...We collective neuroses so readily that we realize none of us is safe feel the earlier scene resonating_ in the later one and enforcing around him...

...No him doing a,double-take...

...Fat Tristan," "Big Ernie" yells so the whole stadium can hear, "what do you make of the use of the horse as a symbol in the later Yeats...

...a combination of Vorticism and old John stadium, called time and come out to the Well that started it...

...Tracy is the only one who won't the film opens...

...When Isaac has an afternoon out with his son by understatement which one of those long shots provides, "was his second marriage, for instance, he stops in front of F.A.O...

...Next time I was warm- was in the bullpen and didn't get back to Cubs...

...religious man, didn't want to interfere in Tripes, Rothschild, Harding...

...But "Dizzy" pitches...

...He sees through our order to make them clack against each other in our minds...

...The second time those couldn't find a bottle of Rothschild and good but the men in bluee caught on when "pilgrims" start out for the mound, Leo said, hell, give "Dizzy" some St...

...After Tristan" was a Dadaist, sure, but what a the next day and served with a fish that he felt good and sent a telegram to lot of folks forget is that he was also a course...

...He liked his fun with 300,000 serfs...

...As the film goes on, Allen composes certain scenes alike in Woody Allen has us all at his mercy...

...Which don't sound like a Prince Rudolph trying to conscript me Valdosta "Guelphs" in the old whole lot today but it was more money into the Austro-Hungarian Army and he Georgia-Switzerland League in than I'd ever seen before, except when I liked to shot old Mister Rickey before Nineteen-aught-three...

...he said...

...Big Ernie" asked me...

...Once he tried to sneak a dozen A FrER "STREETCARS" went to Philly figure how I was loading it up...

...Beans" is out on that mound right now...