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Patterson

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noun

1.

Eleanor Medill (“Cissy”), 1884–1948, U.S. newspaper editor and publisher.

2.

Floyd, 1935–2006, U.S. boxer: world heavyweight champion 1956–59, 1960–62.

3.

Frederick Douglass, 1901–1988, U.S. educator; founder of United Negro College Fund.

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"The language of the game is interesting. You can think of the pauses as caesuras, breaks between the lines. As a poem the game is composed of a number of short lines representing the pitches. The number of lines per batter form a stanza. Then there is a space. Sometimes the stanzas become breathless, rushing full paragraphs that build rapidly on each other until the poem-inning explodes. The poem lives for this sudden blossoming out of prosodic regularity. Should someone make a computer analysis of baseball prosody, I believe that they would come up with something close to the prosody of some great American lyrical epic, Whitman's Leaves of Grass, let's say, or Doc Williams's Patterson.... The game is definitely an epic ... formed of many lyrical moments dependent on silences for their effectiveness. An unfolding story punctuated by brief emotional swellings."

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