I got that nickname my first spring training camp with the Expos in 1974. Tim Foli, Ken Singleton and Mike Jorgensen started calling me 'Kid' because I was trying to win every sprint. I was trying to hit every pitch out of the park.
The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing. Reporters on the ground, embedded or otherwise, can tell us about or send us pictures of what happened in that place at that time among those people.
Creighton Abrams, Soldier (1914) |
Roy Acuff, Musician (1903) |
Joe Barton, Politician (1949) |
Jimmy Carr, Comedian (1972) |
Henry Darrow, Actor (1933) |
Gordon England, Businessman (1937) |
Nelson Gidding, Dramatist (1919) |
Tom Hardy, Actor (1977) |
Prince Harry, Royalty (1984) |
Tommy Lee Jones, Actor (1946) |
Bill Evans, Musician (1980) |
Geoffrey Fisher, Clergyman (1972) |