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Don't Take the Brown Acid

G-Fafif Dec 30 2017 10:03 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Dec 31 2017 04:00 AM

From Daniel Okrent's 9 Innings: The Anatomy of a Baseball Game, first published in 1985, later updated, exploring ye olde national pastime through the prism of an ostensibly random June 1982 game, Orioles at Brewers: Long baseball seasons demanded humor, and Uecker provided it. With the players, he was always charming; at other times, though, he could be brutally cold, as he was to his radio-booth partner from the year before, Lorn Brown. When Brown was doing the play-by-play, Uecker would turn off his mike, making himself inaccessible to a desperate Brown, a decent, earnest, and rather unimaginative man who couldn't easily make it through an inning without the help of a partner. Brown was stolid, plodding, hung up on statistics. He was also painfully ill at ease among ball players, and Uecker disdained him for it. Brown debuted for the Mets the same year another ex-Brewer employee, George Bamberger, came over. Lasted almost as long, too. I wonder if Cashen had to take them as a package.

Edgy MD Dec 30 2017 10:15 PM Re: Don't Take the Brown Acid

Outstanding! We needed some fresh material at the Lorn Brown page.

G-Fafif Dec 30 2017 10:46 PM Re: Don't Take the Brown Acid

Now I know it's true. I just read it on Wikipedia.

Benjamin Grimm Dec 30 2017 11:44 PM Re: Don't Take the Brown Acid

And the Wikipedia people used the same alternative spelling of "without".

G-Fafif Dec 31 2017 04:01 AM Re: Don't Take the Brown Acid

Benjamin Grimm wrote: And the Wikipedia people used the same alternative spelling of "without". Midwestern variation, I believe.