Double Play (Baseball)
How It's Used
“On a frigid, windy, overcast afternoon this week, the boys of the Georgetown Preparatory School fielded grounders, turned double-plays, practiced rundowns, defended bunts and otherwise pitched, caught, ran and stretched.” —Stefan Fatsis, “The Kids Are All Right,” The Wall Street Journal, March 12, 2004, p. W8. "Just watch [Nathan Lane] at work in 'The Addams Family,' a walking zombie of a musical that jerks into authentic life mostly when Mr. Lane is using his knife-sharp comic talents to make bad jokes seem good, and good jokes seem great.
"Consider this brief exchange between Bebe Neuwirth’s Morticia and Mr. Lane’s Gomez, concerned parents of the teenage Wednesday.
"'Wednesday’s growing up,' Morticia says.
"'She’ll be Thursday before you know it,' Gomez responds.
"A bit of a groaner, and predictable too. Mr. Lane leaves no time for you to see the joke coming. He zips in with the zinger with brisk dispatch and delivers it not with blunt force but with the throwaway grace of a crack shortstop turning a double play. The audience roars. (And so did I.)" —Charles Isherwood, "Why, It's Good Old Reliable Nathan," The New York Times, May 30, 2010. Links Beyond eAlmanac
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