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Who's Going to Replace A-Rod? Brooks Robinson?
Five Season, Five Rings
The Yankees were in a terrible slump a few months ago.
That is to say, they were not in first place.
My prototypical Yankee fan friend was fretting and saying they would have to bring in some new talent.
I sent a two-word reply: Johnny Hopp.
My pal was mystified, in that Hopp is not the classic insurance acquisition the Yankees have made over the decades. He was a fading first baseman they picked up on Sept. 5, 1950 – too late to be eligible for the annual World Series, but he made his modest contributions until early 1952, when his services were no longer required. My point was, the Yankees usually get what they want and what they need.
Other names come to mind ahead of Hopp: Cecil Fielder in 1996, David Justice in 2000, and Johnny Mize in 1949. The Yankees always have the money to bring in somebody during a pennant race. They paid $40,000 for Mize, an aging first baseman, on Aug. 22, 1949, and he helped win five consecutive World Series. I can still see Duke Snider and Carl Furillo staring at his three blasts in the 1952 Series.
As a young sportswriter, my personal favorite among late-season Yankees was Pistol Pete Ramos, who came over from Cleveland on Sept. 5, 1964 – ineligible for the World Series, to be sure, but he made sure the Yankees got there, pitching 13 times and saved eight victories. Not only that, he jollied up his old friend Mickey Mantle by daring him to stage their long-delayed challenge sprint. By that time, the Mick could hardly walk.
Just guessing that Ichiro Suzuki will not propose an old-guy race with Derek Jeter or compare arms with Yankee outfielders, although the word is that he can trash-talk in English with the best of them. He will be a presence.
Supply your own moral judgment. My Brooklyn heart was long ago broken by the Johnny Mizes – and the Johnny Hopps.
I am not old enough to remember Johnny Hopp, but I remember Bob Cerv, Joe DiMastri, Hector Lopez, Johnny Blanchard, Earl Torgenson and Dale Long very well. Pete Ramos was a particular favorite, terrific in late 1964 and I recall The Mick smashing massive homers off Pete and his Cuban compadre, Camilo Pascual, when both were Washington Senators. The Yanks seem to find what they need. A close friend expressed this with typical elegance: "Them that has, gets." Ichiro will not hit .260 in pinstripes unless I miss my guess. When he's done, he will join Mize in the Hall.
Al, what about Coney going 9-2 in 1995 and nearly getting them past Seattle (and wrecking his circulation)?
Your friend was giving the short version. In Billie Holliday's God Bless the Child, it goes:
"Them that's got shall get; them that's not shall lose."
She stresses "got" and "not" just perfectly.
How apt in NYC at the moment. GV
Indeed yes in all respects. I am familiar with the Billy Holiday version, which is superb and the superb cover by the great David Clayton Thomas. Coney pitched until his arm fell off in Game Five in 1995, like Big Newk did in Game Three of the playoff against the Giants in 1951. In 1995, Buck had no idea that some kid named Mariano Rivera was the man to insert in place of the exhausted, brilliant Coney. I seem to recall Coney being summoned in October of 2000 especially to face some guy named Piazza and Coney delivered the goods.
Dave H. link
Don't forget Johnny Sain in 1951 and for several good years thereafter (see http://davehpearlb.hubpages.com/hub/Golden-Age-Baseball-V, fourth entry, Late Season Insurance).
Mike Gesker
Here's to Enos "Country" Slaughter, too!
How about Bob Kuzava, who came over in 1951 and stayed a year. I bet Big Al has heard of him. He shows up in my Brooklyn nightmares sometimes. GV
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/kuzavbo01.shtml
Frank Barning
I knew Johnny Mize. A humble man, he was quite proud of being the only player to hit 50 or more homers in a single season while fanning fewer than 50 times. In 1947 he belted 51 homers for the Giants while striking out 42 times. You could look it up.
Mize was a truly great one who hit 50+ HR's twice and was a superb contact hitter as well. I recall a quote from the late great Red Smith regarding Mize during his years with the Yankees: "Your legs are gone, your arm likewise, but not your eyes Mize, not your eyes." The man could flat hit the pill, a pro's pro in every respect and totally worthy of admission to the Hall.
I'm indebted to you for the Red Smith quote about Mize, who improbably became one of my favorites after joining the Yanks. But he hit 50 or more homers only in 1947. You may be thinking of Kiner, who tied him that year and hit 54 a couple of years later.
Hey, Frank. You're right. He was a nice, gentle man.
Musial got to play with Mize for two weeks in 1941 and always regretted that Rickey unloaded the big man after that season.
Johnny told me that he forced the trade because the Cardinals could not afford to pay him what he was worth. As your brilliant Stan Musial book reports, at the time St. Louis was not really a major city and was mostly blue collar. Musial and Mize could have been the original M&M boys.
I am not familiar with someone named Bob Kuzava. Manager Stengel called upon someone he referred to as "Ben Gazzara" to save the final game of the 1951 Series versus the Giants and then in Game Seven of 1952, seventh inning, bases full of Brooklyn, to face Jackie Robinson, though Gazzara was a lefty and Ben induced the great Robinson to hit a pop-up some fans remember, that was caught by a young roughneck from Oakland named Billy Martin, rescuing the forces of U.S. Steel. I have reviewed the play on tape several times and Billy catches the pop-up on every occasion. This makes me wonder why a .260 hitter and mediocre fielder hit .333 in the World Series and played in one every single season he wore the pinstripes. Some of us use the term "catching the pop-up" as a metaphor for coming to play in the clutch, tough as nails!
Right. Sometimes they crushed you with guys on their roster all year. Henrich. Martin. That stumpy catcher. The new Yankees delivered the coup de grace. Oy.
For someone who is supposed to be out the door for a vacation, you are giving us a lot of work. I left home for my morning swim and other activities only to return to a new post and ten replies.
I became a Yankee fan in 1940 at the age of five. I was confined to bed with scarlet fever that spring and was not allowed any but the slightest exertion. Since my mother limited her visits for fear of catching it, and I could not reach the radio, I was forced to listen to WINS. When I returned to the street, I was asked by my friends who I was rooting for. I had never heard of either the Giants or Dodgers, but I knew all about the Yankees. Fortunately, I had no ill effects of my illness other than some of my friends believing that I was infected by the Yankees.
Between 1940 and 1957, my youthful years of devotion to the Yankees, it was a given that there would be a season saving trade. On some days it seemed more certain than the sun coming up.
I remember all the trades mentioned in the many posts and then some. However, the power of the Yankees also extended to terrific winter and early season trades. As they often say, its the best that money could buy.
I've listed a few that I found on a quick search---
January 1920—Babe Ruth—Boston
March 1972---Sparky Lyle—Boston
November 1959---Roger Maris—Kansas City
December 1984---Ricky Henderson—Oakland
November 1992---Paul O'Neill—Cincinnati
December 1995---Tino Martinez
July 1995---David Cone—Toronto
November 1997---Scott Brosius—Oakland
February 1999---Roger Clemens—Toronto
June 2000---David Justice—Detroit
February 2004---Alex Rodriguez –Texas
December 2009---Curtis Grinderson—Detroit
Date unknown---David Swisher
Alan, this is what I do for fun, man. It's not Clemens and A-Rod that come with price tags and expectations. It's Kuzava and the Mize and Ramos that kill hope -- what was it Orwell said of the future, a boot in the face of humanity, forever. something like that. GV
I didn't get to be a Yankee fan until 1945, although my scarlet fever was in 1942. I saw a newspaper ad for baseball on WINS and it happened to be the Yankees, although I lived in Brooklyn and found myself out of step with my buddies. You might like a couple of my posts on 1942 stars:
Names from the Past: Joe Gordon
Well launched into a new dynasty as the Bronx Bombers, the Yankees brought up a promising rookie second baseman, Joe Gordon, in 1938. His job was to fill the shoes of one of the holdovers from the late 1920's Murderers Row, Tony Lazzeri.
After a dozen years notable both for slugging and fielding, Lazzeri had slumped to .a career-low 244 in 1937. While batting only .255, Gordon made an impressive debut by hitting 25 home runs and driving in 97 runs in 127 games. His fielding was excellent enough to earn him the name of Flash, for the popular sci-fi comic strip and movie serial hero of the era, Flash Gordon. He was then and remained consistently at or near the top in putouts, assists, and fewest errors at his position.
Gordon got his batting average up to .284 in his second year and drove in over 100 runs for the first of three times with the Yankees. His best year was 1942, when he hit .322 with 18 homers and 103 RBI's and won the American League's Most Valuable Player Award. Despite his achievements, many observers felt the award shiould have gone to Ted Williams, who won the league's Triple Crown that season, but Teddy Ballgame was notoriously unpopular with many voting writers.
After a slump to .249 in 1943, Flash served in World War II for two years.
Returning in 1946, he was reinstalled at second base even though his wartime replacement, Snuffy Stirnweiss, had won the batting titkle in 1945. Disappointingly, Gordon was one of several Yankees to underperform in that first postwar season, batting .210 with 11 home runs as the Yanks finished a distant third.
During the winter, he was traded to the Cleveland Indians for Allie Reynolds. It proved to be one of the most mutually beneficial baseball trades. Gordon rebounded to .272 with 29 home runs and formed a splendid double play combinmation with Indians playeer-manager Lou Boudreau. The following year, he was a pillar of the last Indians world championship team, batting .280 with career-high home run and RBI totals of 32 and 124, respectively. Reynolds for his part won 19 games and a World Series start in 1947 and became part of a pitching trio with Vic Raschi and Ed Lopat that sparked the Yankees to a record five straight world championships beginning in 1949.
Gordon played two more years in Cleveland and retired after the 1950 season. He was elected to the Hall of Fame in 2009 by the Veterans Committee.
Names from the Past: Ernie Lombardi
Ernie Lombardi was an outstanding catcher, a lifetime .300 hitter, two-time batting champion, a seven-time All Star, and 1938 National League MVP who has totally faded into obscurity. Playing 17 years in the 1930's and 1940's, he was known as Schnozz for the size of his nose in an era marked by nicknames like Leo the Lip (Durocher), Goose (Goslin), King Kong (Keller), and Slats (Marion).
Schnozz began his career in 1931 with the Brooklyn dodgers, but had his most productive years with the Cincinnati Reds, winning his MVP in 1938 with a league-leading .342 batting average, and playing a major role in two pennant-winners the following two years. He spent one year with the Boston Braves in 1942, capturing his second batting title at .330, and concluded his tenure with five years on the New York Giants.
Besides a lifetime .306 batting average, Lombardi was admired for an accurate sidearm throw from a crouching position and he was considered a fine handler of pitchers. Ironically, one of the few memories of his playing days is from vintage filmed highlights. The abovementioned Yankee outfielder Keller knocked him over in a home plate collision that enabled two runs to score in the climactic Game 4 of the 1939 World Series. The episode became known as "Schnozz's Snooze" and unfairly diminished his fielding reputation.
The Hall of fame Veterans Committee, with a fuller appreciation of Lombardi's career, elected him to the Hall in 1986.
My scarlet fever came in 1942 and I inadvertently became a Yankee (and baseball) fan in 1945 after noticing a newspaper ad for baseball on WINS. I don't remember any seaon-saving trade that year. In fact, they let star pitcher Hank Borowy go mid-year and he helped the Cubs to their last World Series. You'll recall that the Yanks struggled on to fourth place with batting champion Snuffy Stirnweiss, Tuck Stainback, and Bud Metheny. Charlie Keller and Red Ruffing came back from the war mid-season and gave us some hope for 1946, but that was another downer.
George, does the name Luis Soto ring a bell, chubby, little utility infielder who hit a nine-hopper up the middle in Flushing in October of 2000? And what of Brian Doyle and Bucky F. Dent as your pals in Boston refer to him. This plucky little bunch of over-achievers in pinstripes from the Bronx finds a way to overcome and adapt, despite the constraints of a $200 million budget.
names vaguely familiar, yes
You are absolutely correct in that the little surprises are the most fun. I like to root for the little guy as well as the teams with the lowest payroll. Milwaukee is first on that list as my 14 year old grandson lives in Madison, WI and it gives us something in common. He has been to NYC often and knows that he would be a Met fan if he lived here.
The Yankees are not always perfect. The following link shows some of their blunders.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1244339-new-york-yankees-ranking-the-10-worst-trades-in-bombers-history
As I read your comment Johnny Hopp, I said to myself Johnny Mize. Us older guys remember Hopp with the Boston Braves and Mize with the Jints. I already hadna painful memory of Mize. Branch Rickey began the two admission doubleheader as I recall. I went to one that began at 10 a.m. The Dam Jints won 19-2 and Mize did a lot of damage. I forget the specifics. As a natural Yankee-hater, all Dodger fans were, these guys showing up in the Bronx was adding insult to injury.
Gracious. Adding up the total "man years" of experience of this group, there has got to be a couple of hundred years of sports angst reflected here. I can imagine Eternity as a place where the Yankees find the key to winning each and every world series forever. Heaven and hell are the same place -- and your fate depends on who you chose to route for in life!!
That's what Orwell was talking about.
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stomping on a human face -- forever."
(I looked it up after mangling it somewhat the first time around) GV
Yes, I'm enjoying the collective experience of this group and all the many memories it brings.
"Pinstripe Empire: The New York Yankees from Before the Babe to After the Boss" by Marty Appel is a must read as it is an encyclopedia of good and bad Highlander/Yankee trades since about 1903. I read many books as a teenager about the early days of the Yankees, as well as baseball in general, but Marty Appel's research and insight has taken this history to a new dimension.
I also enjoy all forms of trivia, but the baseball period between the late 1800's up to about the 1940's should be a topic in itself.
One of my favorites was how Walter Johnson ended a darkness shortened game by striking out the side without throwing a pitch.
Although I was a Yankee fan, my favorite ball park was The Polo Grounds. The short foul line, high walls and deep center field made every game interesting. I do not know why, but we once decided to sit in the bleachers right next to the dirt runway leading to the club houses. Ralph Kiner hit a home run that landed there on the fly, over 595'. Sometimes you get lucky. However, we barely knew what was happening in the infield.
I will send this to Marty. GV
this really rang a bell, lots of interaction. Fun reading from your fans. By the way it reminded me of your post on nicknames. Here are a couple: Mandrake for Jint outfielder Don Mueller. In section 8we called him this singles hitter that for his bloops and seeing eye hits. For the younger, Mandrake the Magician was a comic strip hero.
"Scoonge" for the "Reading (PA) Rifle, Carl Furillo. probably a reference to Scongili. PS saw Furillo catch a shot off the right field wall on the fly and throw to third to head off a runner from first. The ball arrived before the runner and was still rising when it flew over the third baseman's head and landed way back in the seats. Fun.
Since we're talking about the good great days--
My 1st game at the Polo Ground. Right field bleachers. 1st row. Ball hit to deep right. Mueller picks it up on one hop and fires a perfect one-bouncer to the man covering 2nd. Being a kid, I didn't think a human could throw like that.
1st game at The Stadium. Same seat. Pitcher throws. Suddenly, Hank Bauer, in front of me, sprints toward center and dives to catch a wicked line drive that I never saw leave the bat.
That's when I realized pro baseball was not in my future.
my first game at the PG? A guy named Jack Conway hit a 254-foot HR -- his only one in the majors -- to beat my Dodgers. I cried all the way home (what the heck, I was 9)
David A
Truly enjoy your blog, its wonderful pieces like this that give me the impetus to write the following:
http://blogcritics.jdowell.mtv-dev03.technorati.com/sports/article/with-the-trade-deadline-fast-approaching/
Thanks so much. will read later.
I'm at Fenway for Roma-Liverpool.
Will be filing for the NYT later.
Go USA Ladies Olympic Soccer! Columbia...next victim-enjoy Fenway. Who are you rooting for (if I may ask?)
Too busy to root tonight. I rooted for my Internet connection to come back in a quivering ball park.
I've never become intensely devoted to any one club the way many fans do.
Journalists root for the story, usually. Sounds dull, but true.
I never got used to seeing the outfielder running toward center field to play the ricochet's of hard drives down the line. The right fielder would often throw out a hitter who rounded first too wide and was caught by a quick throw. Since it happened frequently, it was considered part of the home field advantage.
michaelira
Luis Arroyo and Bobby Shantz.
Bob in Cherry Valley
I linked to this from the NYT Bats blog and found myself moved to look some stuff up, and, respectfully, to post some comments:
When I encounter the words "Pedro Ramos" (or variations) my first association is "Cuban palmball," which I believe involved some kind of tropical moisture.
Sal "The Barber" Maglie, late season pickup in '57, becoming one of the few to play for all 3 (then) NYC franchises. (I don't think anyone played for all 4, though Stengel wore all 4 uniforms, two as mgr.)
Johnny Blanchard came up in the Yankees' system, finally made it to the majors in '59 as a pinch-hitter and #3 catcher behind Elston Howard and Yogi, played 6 seasons and pinch-hit in five straight WS ('60-'64) for the Yanks. Not a late season pickup, a career Yankee.
But most importantly, Luis Sojo (with a "j") was indeed a late season pickup for the Yanks -- in August '96. He had been the starting 2B on the '95 Seattle team that broke Don Mattingly's fans' hearts in the first round of the post-season, along with Tino, Jeff Nelson, and ARod (who was 19). Sojo stayed with the Yanks through '99, then signed with the Pirates for '00, when the Yankees picked him up again, once more in August, a couple of months before the WS game-winning dribbler off Leiter. The Yankees brought Sojo back a third time -- on September 1st this time, and from retirement -- after he had hit a HR off Guidry in the '03 Yankees' Old Timers Game earlier that summer (!). He was 3B coach for the Yanks in '04 and '05 and has managed Yankees' minor league teams most years since, mainly at Tampa, where he managed Nova, Gardner, Hughes, Kennedy, Joba, Romine, Coke, Robertson, Austin Jackson, Nunez, and others who made it to the majors. Sojo now holds the all-time wins record for a manager in the Florida State league. And probably the all-time Yankees late season pennant race pickup record too.
Darryl Strawberry played for all four NY franchises -- his only four teams. Of course, two of them were in Calif. when he did.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/strawda01.shtml
I was on the fence about whether post-'57 counted but I did forget about Straw, so thank you. I guess the home uniforms at least were pretty much the same, except for the caps. By this standard we can also include, at least with Casey, Don Zimmer, who played for the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Mets, and coached for the SF Giants and the Yankees.
Forrest Murray
The quote above about Johnnie Mize and his eyes was with all due respect not from Red Smith,but from my uncle, Dan Parker, in the Daily Mirror.
Funny how that works -- Red becomes the representative sportswriter for the ages. Dan Parker was a giant when I was breaking in, before the Mirror went down. Thanks, GV
Many thanks to the the two gents who have corrected me on two mistatements I made in prior posts. Blanch (Johnny Blanchard) came up in the Yankee organization. Perhaps I was thinking about his trade to KC in the lamentable Mike Burke era. Someone asked Blanch if he was pleased because he would have a chance to play regularly in KC. Blanch's reply was classic: "Who wants to play regularly in Kansas City?" My apologies to Mr. Parker on attributing his Dad's superb line on John Mize to Red Smith. Perhaps as I march towards social security age as an old baby boomer I am encountering early signs of senility. I recall the line being used in Pete Golenback's marvelous book "Dynasty" recounting the Yankee years of 1949 through 1964,"when rooting for the Yankees was like rooting for U.S. Steel." I have to root the book out of the attic because I could swear that Pete attributed the quote on Mize to the great Red Smith, a favorite of mine. But as I say, I am an aging baby boomer and like many "young" guys in their 50's and 60's, my idol was and is a young kid from Oklahoma who ran like the wind and hit moonshots from both sides of the plate. All he did was take the Yankees to the Series 12 times in his first 14 years, hit 18 homers in October, 3 more than Ruth and win the Triple Crown. 50 years ago in 1962, I saw the Mick batting lefty in BP before a double-dip with the Tigers hit 12 consecutive balls into the bleachers between the 407 sign in right center and the 461 sign in dead center. The peanut and hot dog vendors set down their trays, turned and watched. Kaline, Cash, Colavito and Bunning stood behind the cage and stared in awe, then laughed hysterically. Next time in the cage, The Natural stepped into the box from the right side and on his first swing, he hit a ball that looked like a Tiger Woods 2 iron, ten feet off the ground, no more, which went over the 457 sign in left center and got stopped by the bleacher seats about ten or twelve rows back. If the seats weren't there, the ball would have wound up in the lobby of the Concourse Plaza Hotel on 161st Street. Incidentally, some of us with Moms who had grown up in the Bronx watching Ruth, Gehrig and DiMag always referred to the Concourse as the "Cohen Course". I could never figure out why. I need a good knish, but where to find one these days? George V. and I knew a place in Queens - - - - . Right old friend?
Al, I can get pho in our home borough now....and dosa....
that works, too. But the knishes at Charney's were good, too
GV.
Mantle was the most powerful player I had ever seen. I saw him hit a line drive home run to right center that the second baseman just missed catching by inches. It just kept rising. I wonder how his would have felt if he did catch it.
One night my wife, a non-sports fan, and I were at a Howard Johnsons on Rt 4 in NJ for a late night ice cream when I pointed Mantle out to her. He was across the room with his back to us. When she asked how could I tell since he was far away and not facing us I replied, "I would recognize that neck anywhere" .
You can get great Yona Schimmel knishes is Teaneck as well. But the knishes at Charney's were like fragrant little pillows, with perfect crust and hospital corners. The mashed potato inside was perfectly seasoned with onion and pepper and the special deli mustard made them superb. For those favoring kasha, these knishes were also perfect. The kasha was soft, flavorful and moist, like the kind in my Bubby's flanken with kasha varnishkes (pot roast and kasha, oy!). I am so hungry!!!!!
The references to Red Smith reminded me of a long-time, unresolved, argument with my friend about whether we played "hardball or baseball" as kids growing up in NYC.
It started when we were coming onto the Westside Highway from the George Washington Bridge. Harvey pointed out the Little Red Lighthouse that was in our kids' story books. I commented that I used to play hardball on the field right next to it. He exclaimed that there was no such thing as hardball, it was baseball.
This continued on and off good naturedly for years until we decided to ask Red Smith, but he had died two days later.
I lived at 190th street and Fort Washington Avenue in Manhattan's Washington Heights section. My sports universe was the cement school yard of PS 187 across the street, where softball was king. However, it was always a treat to play hardball on dirt and grass under the bridge at 177th street. You could actually slide on your side and playing next to the Hudson River was worth the trip.
I'm hoping that someone in this talented group of fans can shed some light on this. I do not know if "hardball" was a term unique to the world of PS 187 or if its use was more wide spread. We always referred to the games as either hardball or softball, never baseball.
Harvey was from the Jerome Avenue area of the Bronx, which was probably not as enlightened as upper Manhattan. My theory is that Manhattan residents of my era were ego-centric. All NYC friends of my generation refer to having been from Brooklyn, the Bronx or Queens. Manhattan alumni always refer to themselves as being from New York. Just a theory!
Keep in mind, many of today's politicians, political analysts and even corporate executives refer to "playing hardball", not baseball.
Alan, this is from Alan, a/k/a Big Al. I live right off Route 4 these days and I know that Mickey brought his entire family to live with him one Summer in a rental house in Bergen County, perhaps 1962. The neighbors apparently drove him crazy and the experiment was not repeated the next season.
Do you recall the sound of ball on bat when Mantle connected with full power? Was it not different, louder and sharper, than any other player's best? Three examples: (1) The home run off the facade off of Bill Fischer in 1963 (note: Mick always called it the "facarde"); (2) I was at the double-dip vs. the Pale Hose in August of 1964 when Mantle's second of two tremendous homeruns, this one off of Ray Herbert, went over the monuments, over the 461 sign, over the twenty foot screen above the sign and twenty rows into the black seats where its progress was stopped, 502 feet from home plate. It was a Daily News "diagram shot"; remember the Mantle HR diagrams? ; and (3) The moonshot walkoff HR in Game Three of the 1964 Series off of Barney Schultz that Cards' RF Mike Shannon turned and stared at. I have heard Tim McCarver, who was behind the plate for the Cards, say he was in awe. Crosetti almost jumped on Mickey's back as he rounded third. Pepi and Ellie greeted Mantle like he was Neil Armstrong. That day in October of 1964 was one of the two or three happiest of my entire life. It almost cancelled out Bill Mazeroski.
Alan, of course it was "hardball"! We played hardball at Alley Pond Park and at Cunningham Park in Queens. We played stickball with a broomstick and a tennis ball on the wall with the painted strike zone at Martin Van Buren HS in Queens Village. We played stoopball and slapball with a "spaldeen". "Punchball" was for sissies. Anyone who is not intimately familiar with the proper use of these terms was obviously not well brought up, a "garcon mal eleve" as M. Vecsey would call him. Only a complete vulgarian would refer to an egg cream as a "chocoate soda", is it not so? Only a knave would make one with Bosco and club soda. The cogniscenti know that an egg cream is simpy not an egg cream without Foxx's U Bet and seltzer from the fountain or spritzer of such high intensity that the gas created could fuel an Apollo booster rocket. Hardball is hardball, softball is softball; this is true to a metaphysical, existential certainty.
Big Al,
"Hardball" it is as you have the proper credentials to make that ruling.
It was in 1962 when we saw Mantle as we were just married and staying with my folks in Teaneck until our apartment in Elizabeth was ready. As for the sound of the line drive home run, as my kids and grandchildren say—awesome!
I suspect that you live in Teaneck or nearby if you are near Rt 4. We moved from Washington Heights to Teaneck in December 1947. I lived there until I graduated college in 1958. I lived on Forest Avenue just five houses up from River Road.
We could start an entirely new dialogue on the culture and protocols of school yard sports. We played all the games you mentioned and some that you forgot. PS 187 was a square with one quarter used for the school. There was one large, a relative term, field and two smaller ones. Unless the rest of the yard was cleared on Sunday afternoons for the college kids to play, all of the activities that you mentioned were going on while three softball games were being played. The center fielder on the largest field had to play both walls of the school corner in addition to dodging several basketball poles.
There were also games of target going on against the left field wall. I always was in the school yard by 7 AM so that I could be in the first softball game as winners played all day. A game of target could start with only two players and a softball game needed two to a side. Hits in certain areas were outs and the restrictions modified as more players arrived.
I often went back to PS 187 on weekends for two years because pickup games were unknown in Teaneck at the time.
While playing center field for Teaneck JHS at Tenafly, I had to run through a track meet to catch a ball. When my coach asked how I managed it, I told him that I had school yard training.
One of my highlights was when the truck delivered Foxx's U Bet and seltzer. The mix was enhanced by adding some malt crystals on top for flavor, if my mother was not home.
Great memories!!
Big Al plays hardball. Of course he does. That's what we called it in Queens (a decade earlier than Big Al).
Words change by borough. In Queens you would "get" a haircut. But I met friends from Brooklyn who would "take" a haircut.
Red wouldn't have known about NYC youth semantics. I think he was from Green Bay. Dave Anderson from Brooklyn would know,
In late breaking news the Steinbrenners announced they have bought A.C. Roma, and are considering bringing back Pele for the last month before the championship. Nice story, as usual, George on Fenway match.
Pinstripe Birthdays link
Don't forget when they brought El Duque back to the Bronx in July of 2004. He won 8 of 10 decisions to get them into postseason.
Dear Pinstripes: They could bring back Lefty Gomez tomorrow and he would go 7-1 down the stretch. GV
Lefty Gomez was quite a character as well as a good pitcher. Once with two men on base, he threw the ball to second basemen Tony Lazzeri, the only one not involved in the play. Everyone was save as Lazzei was surprised and just held the ball.
On the pitcher's mound before the next pitch, Gomez was asked what he was doing. He replied to Lazzeri, I heard that you were so smart that I wanted to see what you would do with it.
Alan buddy, I am in Bergenfield, not much more than a mile from Windsor Road and Teaneck, past Bergenfield HS, where Ronny Vallone starred at hardball. I go to the JCC of Teaneck, across Cedar Lane from Holy Name Hospital. Do you remember Tabachniks and the Butterflake Bakery? Bill Parcells played at River Dell in Oradell, ten minutes away. I am familiar with all important games and we cannot leave out boxball and hit the penny. But did you flip baseball cards? In the schoolyard at P.S. 18 on Hillside Ave. in Queens Village (George knows this area) I was an acknowledged master. You challenged your opponent calling your bet, such as "first and five". You flipped five cards and your opponent had to match. We always kept two sets of cards, one for flipping and one for the shoebox, full set. Did you ever notice that there were ten Pumpsie Greens and Eli Grbas for one Mickey Mantle or Willie Mays? Do you think that Topps did this deliberately? I would walk to school to be there at 7 AM so I would have a full hour of card-flipping and was subjected to daily abuse by my idiot Met friends starting in 1962. According to them, Choo Choo Coleman was better than Ellie Howard and Joe Christopher was better than Mickey Mantle. How does one respond to such lunacy? And they were under the impression that the Mayor's Trophy Game was Game Seven of the World Series. Did you know that Rod Kanehl was better than Bobby Richardson? Oy! Vanilla Malted at Michael's Luncheonette (candy store) on Hillside was 30 cents for three large glasses of malted with two giant scoops of vanilla. Remember the ice cream headache? The spaldeens at Michael's were kept in a large wicker basket and they cost a quarter, a major investment. We tested the spaldeens using Isacc Newton's theory of gravity to determine which one bounced the highest. Michael, the proprietor, never questioned us and assumed our scientific theories were proper. And yes, my Mother threw out all my shoeboxes of sacred cards as soon as I left for college.
Of course I know Tabachniks and the Butterflake Bakery. I had to buy and extra Russian rye because I usually ate one on the way home. Vince Lombardy was the football coach of the always successful St. Cecelia HS teams. I believe that was where he was first noticed.
Gratzel's was another good bakery on Cedar Lane. There were two very good fast pitch softball summer leagues in Teaneck and they played in the better one. It was rumored that they paid their pitcher. One year it was decided to have a game between the two league winners. Several of us watched one of their games from behind home plate and set our goals on just getting a hit. We did get some, but no one took a strike or a full swing. It was important to practice your timing. We did not win, but did received treats from the bakery.
We did all the same card flipping as well as marble contests. Did you read the book, "Where you going, out?; What are you doing, nothing? It tells a one year cycle of neighborhood activities. An enjoyable read!
Mothers were always a problem. I was a saver, but she never allowed comic books into the apartment. Considering how long I keep things (just ask my wife), I must have missed out on a fortune.
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Hello Big Al,
Are you also familiar with Michael's Luncheonette in Woodside? My father briefly worked there in 1959.
Regards, Irwin
This comment by George is very astute, a distinction with a difference. At Sal the barber's on Springfield off Union in Queens, you "got" a haircut. You could also get a a bet and a decent vig on Yanks-Tigers, Ford v. Bunning. Does anyone recall the great blackout of 1965? I was in the chair with Sal, late in the afternoon, when the lights went out. My haircut was half-finished. I had to come back the following day. Can you imagine the grief I took? My buds never let me forget my mohawk. In those days, we all got the "semi-crew" cut. Mantle and Unitas wore their hair that way. Y.A. Tittle, a hero, had a different cut.
The Bergenfield Bears were one tough outfit! The Butterflake made the best marble cake, chocolate eclairs (custard not whipped cream!!!) and assorted cookies in G-d's creation and still does. Do you recall the line that stretched outside the bakery on Sunday mornings? The small, seeded rye, onion rolls, bialys and bagels with everything (garlic, garlic, garlic) are simply the best. As for Tabachniks, when you walked into the place, you immediately went into a trance. The smells were so wonderful they must have been illegal. Did you know that Jim Bouton played semi-pro ball in Teaneck? My buddy's dad managed him. Alan, Washington Avenue hasn't changed a lick and neither has Teaneck Road by the Armory. Try Tommy Fox's on Washington for a Yankee or Giants game.
Dear Dave H., I stand corrected yet again and thank you. The Big Cat hit 50+ homers only once and I was thinking of the master of malapropisms, Ralph Kiner, great slugger and hilarious broadcaster. I suggested recently to George V. that the Mets should invite the new Governor Cuomo to Opening Day at Shea II and have a special Kiner's Corner for Ralphie to interview Guv. Andy C. Can anyone alive who was watching the Opening Day at Shea I when Governor Mario C. was in attendance fail to recall Kiner's epic malopropism in referring to the Governor as Mario "Kooh-mo"? When I see Ralphie these days, it evokes Bob Shepherd, who is still announcing Derek "Jeetah", from his grave in Cypress Hills Cemetary, Queens. Reminds me of a story Kiner told about his days in Pittsburgh when he was winning HR championships year after year and he went into GM Branch Rickey's office and demanded a big raise. Rickey replied: Young man we finished last with you and we can finish last without you." Ralphie became Kiner the Cubbie
Branch Rickey's comment to Ralph Kiner was typical of how he utilized any opportunity to under pay his players. Although he was very innovative and made many positive contributions to baseball, Rickey could be mean spirited and often disrespected his players in order to save money.
Two books that are of interest are "Dollar Sign on the Muscle: The World of Baseball Scouting" by Kevin Kerrane (1989) and "Branch Rickey:Baseball's Ferocious Gentleman" by Lee Lowenfish (2007).
I was sitting behind home plate watching a Pittsfield Mets game at Waconah Park in Pittsfield. MA shortly after "Dollar Sign on the Muscle" came out. There were two scouts sitting in front of me, so I asked if they had read the book. They said that it was perfectly on target.
Although it is a book on scouting, Rickey is referred to often. For example, he would release players on the road so he would have to pay their return fare home.
My son Josh met Lee Lowenstein while on a summer internship at WBAI in NYC. On his weekly sports program, Lee interviewed Kevin Kerrane about his book "Dollar Sign on the Muscle". It turned out that Lee was a customer in my store and we became very good friends. I would not normally read a book about Branch Rickey, but Lee is a terrific writer about baseball and I always support friends.
"Branch Rickey" is a wonderful insight to the man and is an interesting read. I believe George had some references to Rickey in his recent Stan Musial book, another must read.
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The Spread, Week Ten: O Bracket, Where Art Thou?
October 31, 2012 by Jeremiah (SYR) 2 Comments
College football may be on the verge of something that I never thought I'd see. An undefeated Notre Dame could find itself locked out of the national championship chase. Notre Dame. The school for whom the system has bent over backward might be this year's version of The Team Looking In as we wait for the BCS to finally die its slow, slow death.
And they don't even deserve it.
Right now, the Irish are at #3 in the BCS rankings and before you rage against the machines, it's not the computers' fault. In that component, Notre Dame is actually tied for first place. With Kansas State. (Okay, now you can rage.)  In the human polls, however, they  sit at #4. Now, I think those other three teams are great too, but is Notre Dame really the worst of the four eligible, relevant unbeatens?
Excluding fellow independents Navy and BYU, the Irish do not have a single team on their schedule that is not in an BCS-AQ conference. Kansas State has two. Bama has three. Oregon played three to start the season, and that was their entire non-conference schedule. Granted, two of those teams will have to play a conference championship game, but that still doesn't quite even the scheduling score.
In terms of common opponents, Notre Dame's impressive schedule offers opportunities to directly compare performances with the other three (inasmuch as that can be considered a direct comparison, but let's not get into that). Notre Dame and Oregon share two quality teams (Stanford and USC) that will allow us to make a pretty good judgment between them, but the only game that has taken place so far is Notre Dame/Stanford, so the jury's still out on this one.
Both the Irish and Alabama played Michigan, with the Tide ripping out Brady Hoke's gravy-soaked soul in prime-time on opening weekend. Brian Kelly took it easier on the school that should have hired him when they had the chance, but Manti Te'o and the Domer D picked off 5 Wolverine passes and pretty much made Denard Robinson look like the worst QB to ever not know how to tie his shoes. While I think each team dominated Michigan in its own way, I wouldn't fault you for giving Bama the edge.
Notre Dame and Kansas State each played Miami (FL) and Oklahoma and the Irish come out the clear winners here. Notre Dame snuffed out the Canes 41-3 in a Catholics vs. Convicts revival that left Miami looking for some fresh thugs. The Sooners were supposed to expose the Irish last week but instead got whipped 30-13. While Kansas State similarly abused Miami 52-13, they had a much tougher time with Oklahoma, the better of the two opponents, edging the Sooners 24-19 thanks to a fourth quarter outburst from an offense that hadn't reached the end zone in the first three.
I'm honestly not sure why this team isn't being mentioned right along with Alabama as the best in the nation. They may not be "dominating" teams in terms of margin of victory, but the truth is they just might be this year's equivalent of the '02 Buckeyes, with the presumed-repeat-champs Crimson Tide slipping nicely into Miami's role.
Okay, I'm done praising Notre Dame. I need a shower.
FRAUD UPDATE
Four weeks ago, I nailed my list of Six Fraud Teams to the door of college football and then probably took a nap. With about four weeks left in the regular season, it's time to see how things are shaping up.
Louisville: The Cardinals were at the top of the list thanks to a poor schedule and several close wins. Guess what? They're still winning ugly while their competition has elevated to mediocre (three opponents since first list are 11-12). While there's still technically a chance to go Full Fraud if they lose all remaining games and their bowl, it appears that Louisville will escape this fate.
Texas Christian: TCU was my pick for sure-fire fraud on the initial list and they have not disappointed so far. The Frogs went 1-3 since opening 4-0 and their remaining games are: @West Virginia, Kansas State, @Texas, Oklahoma. So yeah.
Northwestern: I think the Wildcats are a decent team and picked them to survive Fraudacity mostly because the Big Ten just isn't that great this year. Still, they've dropped 2 of 4 since starting 5-0 and have a bye week before the season-defining Tour de Michigance. They finish at home against Illinois who is Illinois. I'm still in the Nerds' corner, but they're not out of the woods yet.
Rutgers: Like Louisville, the Scarlet Knights benefit from being an okay team in a terrible conference. They lost to Kent State last week and have road trips to Cincy and Pitt before taking on the Cardinals in the season-ender. All three of those games could easily be losses.
South Carolina: I plucked the Gamecocks (and Mississippi State) out of the vast collection of unbeaten SEC teams at the beginning of October because they were the two most suspect and something had to give. Unfortunately for SoCar, that something was everything inside of Marcus Lattimore's leg. Notice how there's no link. If you haven't seen it, consider yourself lucky. If you really think you still want to, go find it yourself. The Cocks did manage to still pull out the win over Tennessee and that will keep them out of Fraudville. Their remaining schedule is Arkansas, Wofford, @Clemson. We'll see how they respond to the loss of Lattimore, but those are all winnable games.
Mississippi State: Their only loss so far is to Doc Saban's Elephant Football Death Machine, but they still have Texas A&M, LSU and Ole Miss upcoming.
MAKE WEEKEND PLANS
Thursday night's big ESPN game is Irrelevant Virginia Tech @ Afterthought Miami (FL), a game that couldn't be more meaningless this late in the season. Expect lots of SEC-related tangents from the booth starting about halfway through the opening kickoff.
Saturday night finally brings us Oregon @ USC, Alabama @ LSU, and Oklahoma State @ Kansas State which will probably all end up something like 66-13, but at least those games will have two good teams playing at the same time, a phenomenon you'll be hard-pressed to find the rest of the day without picture-in-picture.
Filed Under: College Football, Miscellany
Most desired matchup? ND/Oregon, Bama/Oregon, ND/Bama? Kstate/all of the above?
I would love to see the Irish D vs. Oregon offense. To a lesser degree, KSU's as well. I think Bama would win and it would probably be ugly, but a Bama/ND match up should have some great defensive moments.

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A Chinese Puzzle: What If Its Auditors Really Are Barred from Practice in America?
Do you have the patience to wait until the mud settles, and the water is clear?
Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzu, Verse 15
What will be the impact on the rickety and shambolic audit model for large global companies, if the January 22, 2014, opinion of Administrative Law Judge Cameron Elliot of the US Securities and Exchange Commission becomes final and enforceable?
That opinion would impose a six-month suspension from US public company practice on the Chinese affiliates of the Big Four audit firms – putting China-based registrants at risk of trading suspensions and de-listings, strangling the pipeline of China company IPO's into the US, and threatening the compliance of American and other public companies having significant business presence and reportable operations in China.
As found by the ALJ, the Big Four firms had "willfully" failed and refused to produce audit work papers relating to their China-based engagements, in response to SEC enforcement subpoenas, asserting that they would be in violation of Chinese legal and state secret restrictions – positions brushed aside by the ALJ as not "in good faith" and "not sincere at all" (page 105).
Reactions and perspectives differ dramatically. To sort them out, consider the fable of Asian origin, of the committee of blind men tasked to describe an elephant:
Each feels a different part of the animal – and they variously say that for its leg it is like a column, its trunk -- a snake, its side -- a wall, its ear -- a fan, its tail -- a rope.
Start with the Chinese themselves. Resolute optimists might see a new era of cross-border bonhomie in the China Securities Regulatory Commission's turn-over to the SEC of documents it had received from Deloitte relating to its engagement by Longtop Financial Technologies Limited. As announced by the SEC on January 27, 2014, that supported discontinuance of the SEC's enforcement action commended against Deloitte in 2011 – the first of the actions leading to the ALJ opinion.
Is it the start of a climb-down by the Chinese? Skepticism, caution and prudence would all advise against betting the ranch.
That's because the behavior of the Chinese remains inconsistent, incomplete and inscrutable. Reacting to the ALJ's decision, the CSRC issued the lofty warning that "the SEC should bear all responsibility to possible consequences arising from the decision.
And noting that the ALJ's order is subject to appeals, first to the full SEC and then to the appellate court, Chinese analysts and corporate spokesmen took the casually sanguine view that all current reports and filings are proceeding as scheduled.
By which they failed to see two problems: First, delay through this reporting cycle is not a strategy, but only a temporary expedient; next year will arrive, all too soon and with all the same issues. Second, in any event, it should inhere in Chinese companies' voluntary choice of American channels to the capital markets that US regulators had the right to set their rules.
As well they should, considering that effective Chinese assurance remains an elusive if needed goal. Witness the potential impact of the ALJ's suspension order on Peoria-based Caterpillar, with fiscal 2013 revenue of $ 56 billion. Asia was its second-largest region, of which China contributed $ 3.5 billion. On this financial and geographic scale, big-firm audit support plainly is required.
Moreover, as shown by the company's fourth-quarter write-off of $ 580 million, or some 87% of its July 2012 acquisition of Hong Kong-listed ERA Mining and Machinery Ltd for $ 653 million, the production of reliable financial information from China fell victim to "deliberate, multi-year, coordinated accounting misconduct."
Assertions by Caterpillar of such issues as discrepancies between physical and book inventory, at an acquired company whose major product was hydraulic roof supports to prevent rock-falls in coal mines, raise the ominous prospect that both investors and coal miners in China alike should worry about their roofs falling in.
But there are only two equally unacceptable alternatives, if Caterpillar and other companies with significant Chinese operations are denied the services of Big Four firms there: either trading suspensions for otherwise all-American enterprises, or filing by their auditors of opinions with the deadly and impermissibly non-compliant "except for" language required by US auditing standards (see AU 508.22-26) for unresolved restrictions on the ability to perform audit work believed necessary.
In his China Accounting Blog, advantageously on the ground, academic Paul Gillis correctly observed the futility of attempts at replacement of the Big Four's local firms: smaller firms in China would lack "the scale and skills to audit the Big Four's clients," and attempts to fly in non-Chinese audit personnel would fall afoul of local licensing and disclosure requirements.
But the suggestion by Gillis that the Big Four could serve their six months in the penalty box after May 1, and then return to do 2014 audits, would be seen by the SEC and the PCAOB to show a nose-thumbing and recidivist attitude, such as fatally poisoned relations between Arthur Andersen and the Justice Department back in 2002. Fresh subpoenas and de-registration proceedings could be expected instantly, with the US regulators' full wrath over-hanging any such evasiveness.
Meanwhile the Big Four themselves promised both full-out appeals and non-stop work for their clients, falling back on hope for a political solution and claiming to be "heartened by the significant progress on information sharing between the Chinese and US regulators over the past year."
To which the jaundiced reaction of the ALJ must carry weight. With the negligible movement and long-term delaying capacity of the Chinese since the 2002 passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley law – Longtop developments notwithstanding -- anyone so "heartened" would have been similarly charmed back in 1912, that the lifeboat count on the RMS Titanic, cynically reduced to 20 from the planned and sufficient 64, actually exceeded maritime safety regulations.
As for the American regulators, blogger Jonathan Weil suggested that the SEC might simply back-burner the order, lacking either a deadline for action or the will to take on an issue of such intense political dimensions – an approach consistent with such persistent can-kicking as the SEC's never-ending postponements of action on convergence of American and international accounting standards, and the PCAOB's multi-year waving at the unproven benefits of mandatory auditor rotation.
Except that, for its very credibility, the SEC can do no less than vigorously affirm ALJ Elliot's order. Now in the chair after making her reputation as a hard-nosed prosecutor, Mary Jo White has in two recent speeches stoutly declared the primacy of her commitment to the agency's enforcement efforts.
Thus doubly required to show that she clanks when she walks as the meanest badge in town, she would check both reputation and priorities at the door if seen to be less than robust in support for the ALJ – to say nothing of the devastating impact of retreat on the morale and commitment of her staff.
Still, the potential for international regulatory antagonism and the likelihood of a major cross-border conflict have been in full public view, ever since Sarbanes-Oxley launched the PCAOB with its over-reaching jurisdictional aspirations and the ambition to operate internationally despite lacking the tools to do so.
And therein lies the SEC's need to protect itself on judicial appeal. No less than the firms themselves, who in their PCAOB registrations consistently put down markers of possible conflicts among competing national regulations – the regulators accepted those markers with a blind eye to the potential for the type of stand-off now presented, leaving the SEC chargeable with a form of "agency entrapment" for its own decade of irresolution.
Finally, as to ALJ Elliot himself – the public version of whose 112-page opinion consists of 47 pages of factual recitals followed by lengthy portions blacked out for its discussion of the Chinese laws and Chinese markets.
The ALJ plays to the five SEC commissioners who will be his initial reviewers on appeal – reciting that the audit firms' "actions involved the flouting of the Commission's regulatory authority" (page 102) and "failed to recognize the wrongful nature of their conduct" (page 103).
But, critically for the public assessment of his analysis, the ALJ refused to disclose much of his record, out of a seemingly punctilious concern that "some of my factual findings and legal discussion may interfere with any ongoing discussions" between the SEC and its Chinese counterpart (page 4).
If the theme has a ring of familiarity in its prim assertion – "trust me, but I won't tell you why you should" – at least to the critics of the accounting profession – it would be in the similar opacity of the one-page standard audit report itself.
A jurist seeking credence owes a better standard of completeness, at least to the sighted if not to the blind, under the 1913 maxim of Justice Louis Brandeis, that "sunshine is said to be the best of disinfectants."
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The economic environment, rising disposable income and low unemployment rate have also proved unfavorable for the credit repair industry. Revenue for this sector declined at an annualized rate of 5.2% over the five years up to 2018. Statistics like these deliver a negative impact on credit repair. Again, reputation and financial liability lead credit card processors to flag your business as high risk.
Fortunately, for merchants in this category, ACH is an alternative option to process orders from potential clients once your product or service has been delivered. Whether it's personal consulting services, an online course or live event, you can carefully establish processing history through this channel. Chargebacks and refunds are allowed up to seven days and do not incur similar consequences as with credit cards. If your ACH processing is ever shut down, finding another provider won't be as challenging.
In DirectPayNet's extensive experience, non-compliance with the federal Credit Repair Organization (CROA) and high incidents of fraud are ordinary reasons for payment processing rejection. Part of our specialty is aiding merchants with compliance. It is imperative not to present customers with false claims, unclear terms and conditions, and questionable services. If you want to accept credit cards but cannot get approved, exploring ACH as a first step might bring you closer to your goal.
Companies that sell muscle gels, dietary supplements and weight loss teas are missing out on ACH payments. Some health merchants already face pushback when applying for processing due to high chargebacks. As nutraceuticals are untested and regulated to the extent of pharmaceutical drugs, getting approved to accept credit cards for products of this nature can be challenging. Therefore, an acquiring bank may not accept your business. But if you are seeking a solution or are even MATCH-listed, you are in luck! ACH payment processing remains a wonderful alternative to a merchant account.
If no processing history is available, then ACH is the way. It allows the ability to build credible processing history, which is a forward-thinking strategy for your business. Our team has helped merchants build up at least three months of good financials to show two things; that 1) they can scale, and 2) fraud rates can be kept low.
Through our experience in the payments industry we understand how to navigate merchant account applications. Nutraceutical merchants sometimes are unaware that processing history isn't enough to be boarded. Compliance is a key factor. Additionally, pricing model is important. Free trial merchants are learning it is harder to secure a reliable payment solution. A straight-sale model or a subscription without a free trial is ideal to minimize fraud and help in getting a merchant account approved.
Beauty, gift and wine clubs are excellent candidates for ACH. Declined or cancelled recurring orders are one of the biggest hurdles for subscription-based companies. It's easy to see how these types of merchant accounts can be terminated; fraud can run rampant if preventative measures aren't applied early.
The ACH processing fees are affordable, and the frequency of chargebacks is lower for subscription merchants. Customers are asked more verification questions which lowers fraud. Having reduced fraud delivers a better financial outlook for your company when you are ready to find a credit card acquirer.
Credit card rebills often have a higher rate of declined transactions. ACH offers more flexibility with recurring check orders and lowers those decline rates. If a customer changes banking details, his new account is updated, which reduces the frequency of declined orders. Completed transactions of this nature transfer the money directly from the consumer's account within 24-48 hours. Consequently, the risk of credit card chargebacks or customer disputes is reduced. Overall, you can expect to see higher conversions on subscriptions.
Despite the explosion of services like Airbnb, vacation rental companies are unpopular among some acquiring banks. Property management merchants can face the same fate. However, an ACH and eCheck payments option is a good payment solution for business owners unable to get approval for a credit card merchant account.
Property managers are considered high-risk due to the future fulfillment of their services. Rental payments of $1,000 and higher make merchant service providers nervous. This is due to substantial amounts of money being transacted, and the ease with which they can be reversed should a payee cancel or change their mind. Business models like this benefit highly from using ACH and eCheck payments compared to, or as a complement to Visa, MasterCard or American Express.
Property managers can rest easy knowing that transaction fees are lower than would typically be issued by credit card companies. Besides, if a good tenant is paying a recurring $2,000 per month for a property, there are fewer chances of that transaction being decline. With ACH the frequency of rejected orders due to insufficient funds is lower than credit cards, as customers are more conscious of potential NSF charges.
ACH and eCheck payments are used by many high-risk merchants to help reduce risk. This practical solution also helps merchants properly establish a good financial history when applying for other US-based processing options. The ACH payment method means heightened conversions and sales increases up to 10%, as you're attracting potential customers unwilling to use a credit or debit card. If the money is in your customer's bank account, you get paid! It's as simple as that.
As we mentioned before, there are significantly lower fees, and it isn't complicated for your prospective buyers. The transaction is digital. Therefore, there's fewer bank trips, paper invoices and checks. It means everyone is more content.
Contact DirectPayNet to get started, and give your customers more options like ACH and eCheck payments.


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When to wean a breastfed baby
There are a lot of advantages in nursing a baby through toddler years. Some parents really don't know the right age to wean. There's one anthropologist named Kathryn Duttweiler, who's done extensive studies with primates; seeing how they gestate, how they nurse, when their primary teeth come in. She created a system to try and figure out how long a human should nurse. What she came up with was somewhere between two and half and seven years. It's a very, very wide span and there are a lot of variables. In other words, how long a human would nurse. In our culture, we tend to nurse much less than that. What I'd like to say to each family is that they need to look at the reasons why they want to wean and look at the other factors in that family that might be causing them to ask that question. Sometimes you do something called "child lead weaning." Sometimes the families are doing weaning based on the parent's needs or even the needs of the other children in the family. Any of those reasons are valid reasons. The family needs to do what's right for them. Be informed, but do what's right for that family.
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Nicole Peluso, IBCLC, CD, has been a lactation consultant and La Leche League Leader since 1997 in Los Angeles and Connecticut. La Leche League is a non-profit organization that serves as the foremost authority on breastfeeding issues throughout the world. Nicole earned her lactation certification from the International Board of Lactation Examiners and earned her doula training through the National Midwifery Institute. She holds a BA in English from Boston College with a concentration in Women's Studies, studied literature at l'Universite Paris-Sorbonne, and spent her college summers working as a paralegal in a Connecticut law firm.
She has assisted thousands of mothers on their birth and motherhood journeys. She is regularly asked to speak to large groups on parenting issues. Recent speaking engagements include Los Angeles County Health Services, Los Angeles and Culver City Unified School Districts, The Maple Counseling Center Beverly Hills, Los Angeles City College, Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center, The LA Gay and Lesbian Center, and The Los Angeles Airforce Base. She has also been interviewed in a nationally televised segment by Katie Couric on the benefits of co-sleeping with your baby. Nicole is the mother of three children whom she breastfed and parented with attachment parenting techniques. Nicole runs her private lactation practice through The Sanctuary Birth and Family Wellness Center in Los Angeles and her private doula practice through The WOMB in Mar Vista.
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Forumin Volga Candidates introduce platforms
By Pam Reinig
Register Editor
Some of the most intriguing information presented Tuesday night at a political forum in Volga came from a candidate running unopposed for re-election.
Clayton County Attorney Alan Heavens (R) talked about his aggressive prosecution of methamphetamines cases. He has 50 successful felony prosecutions, which he feels has contributed to decreases in usage and the number of labs in Clayton County.
"We're making a difference but it's still out there," Heavens told the crowd. He also briefly touched on his prosecution of vehicular homicide cases, community outreach efforts, and a fines collection system that has returned almost $100,000 to the community.
The bulk of the candidates' forum, sponsored by the Volga City Study Club and held at St. Paul's Lutheran Church, consisted of self-introductions and brief comments. The candidates did engage in a Q/A session that touched on issues ranging from the privatization of Medicaid to support for public schools to air and water quality.
The Register will take a closer look at candidates of the Clayton County Board of Supervisors, Iowa Howa House District 55 and Iowa House District 56 and where they stand on those issues in special articles before the November 6 Election Day. Here are comments from Tuesday's event, in the order in which they were presented:
Joleen Jansen (D)—Clayton County Board of Supervisors
Jansen is a small business owner and program manager with the Clayton County Energy District. She also served on the Central School Board for 11 years.
"Because of my life experiences I think have something worthwhile to offer the county," Jansen said. "As a county supervisor, I will be committed to maintaining a fiscally sound budget by using our county's resources for the good of all who live in Clayton County. I will be informed and I will listen. I will be open-minded. I will bring fresh ideas to the table, and I will always value working together responsibility for the common good of Clayton County."
Dick Dinan (D)—Clayton County Board of Supervisor
Dinan is a life-long Clayton County resident who is retiring from farming after 54 years. He is a former board member of Clayton County Farm Bureau, a former member of the Elkader Jaycees and a charter member of the Iowa Coalition of Mental Health and Aging Committee. He also served as past president of his bowling chapter.
"This is my main message," Dinan said, "I will hear you and work for you, and listen to all your ideas and opinions. I'm an advocate for better roads, education, job opportunities, and clean air and water. I will support new business and tourism."
"I am running for supervisor because I believe we need to continue to care for the well-being of our county and its taxpayers."
Lori Egan (D)—Iowa House of Representatives, District 56
This 30-year resident of Waukon and nurse is running for office because she thinks Des Moines politicians are forgetting the residents of Clayton and Allamakee counties.
"I'm in this race for our elderly and our young," Egan said. "We need health care that is affordable and accessible—one that cares for the disabled who deserve the same services as the 'walking healthy,' and we need an education system that provides our kids with the skills they'll need to land a good job."
Kayla Koether (D)—Iowa House of Representatives, District 55
Koether lives in Decorah and is a member of a fifth-generation Northeast Iowa family. She worked for Northeast Iowa Food & Fitness Initiative and the Winneshiek Energy District before taking her current position at Iowa State University Extension and Outreach providing technical assistance to businesses and beginning farmers.
"It's time to bring my generation back to Northeast Iowa by creating opportunities for them," Koether said. "We need to revitalize our farm economy and rebuild our main streets, and we need the next generation here to do that."
Koether touted her experience engaging people to plan shared goals and succeed in meeting them.
Rob Sand (D)—State Auditor
A Decorah native, Sand was named assistant attorney general in 2010. He recently led a nationwide investigation into the largest lottery scheme in U.S. history.
Sand was critical of the current auditor's office, which he pointed out doesn't employ anyone with law enforcement or prosecution experience.
"There are two things about the job description for auditor that excite me," Sand said. "First there's the opportunity to make efficiency recommendations to save tax dollars and second, the ability to use subpoena power to see if our tax dollars are being used appropriately." If elected, he promises a full investigation of Medicaid to determine if privatization is working.
Marco Battaglia (L)—Attorney General
Battaglia, a Pella native and Des Moines resident who has worked in radio and finance, directed audience members to his website where he calls for reform within Iowa's justice system, increased access to mental health services, and an end to corruption.
"Dealing with our current crony politicians and government three-letter agency folks that think that they are above the law, that is nothing for me," Battaglia says on this website. "No-one is above the law. Not a company or entity that deems themselves too big to fail, not the government itself, certainly not a Governor or a President! No company is too big too fail. No individual is too powerful to be tried for criminal activity."
Lynn Gentry (L)—Lt. Governor
Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Jake Porter was unable to attend the forum so Gentry spoke for both of them. The Calhoun County native said she believes Iowans are Libertarians at heart and offered the state motto as proof: Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain.
"We want Iowans to live that and not just read it on the flag," she said. "Let's do what we can for the people in the state and let them go about their business."
Gary Siegwarth (I)—Governor
Elkader resident and DNR biologist Gary Siegwarth sees water, land and air quality issues as key to Iowa's future.
"I'm running because I've become so frustrated over time," he said. "It's frustrating to go to Des Moines and tell them about things and watch it fall on deaf ears. Our natural resources connect to every other aspect of life, in one way or another. We need to pay attention to that."
Siegwarth acknowledged that people from all political parties have good ideas. "We need to take those good ideas and put them together to make great ideas," he added.
Michael Bergan (R)—Iowa House of Representatives, District 55
A lifelong resident of Winneshiek County, Bergan touts his public service record and previous experience in elected office.
"I bring a real depth of knowledge with me from my past experiences, eight years as a county supervisor working with local government on a number of issues that we dealt with locally," Bergan said. "I've had 12 years working with early childhood from an education perspective as well as working with child abuse prevention with activities with the Department of Human Services with child protection." Bergan added that, if elected, he would continue working with others to improve the quality of life for all Iowans.
Anne Osmundson (R)—Iowa House of Representatives, District 56
Osmundson was on familiar ground at Tuesday's forum: She has lived within three miles of Volga her entire life.
"I've watched as government has grown large and our debt has spiraled out of control," said Osmundson, who clerked for Kristi Hager, who is not seeking re-election. "As a small business owner myself, I understand many of the problems our Iowa employers face. In the Iowa House, I'll work to cut burdensome red tape that stifles our job creators and ensure they have the workforce necessary for the careers of tomorrow. I'll put a priority on investing in education and ensure Iowans have access to affordable healthcare. I'll do everything I can to make certain the future is bright for the next generation of Iowans."
Steve Doeppke (R)—Clayton County Board of Supervisors
Doeppke is a Central High School graduate who has lived his entire life in Elkader. From 1974 to 2016, he worked for the Iowa Department of Transportation. That experience, he said, will serve him well as supervisor tasked with overseeing the county's infrastructure needs.
"I'm also a good listener and I believe all taxpayers deserve to be heard," Doeppke said. "If elected, I will work to achieve a balanced budget, spend taxpayer dollars efficiently and improve mental health."
Sharon Keehner (R)—Clayton County Supervisor
A self-described optimist who believes in leading with common sense, Keehner stressed her good communication skills and trustworthiness. She outlined five challenges that she would address as a supervisor, if elected: safer roads and bridges, improved mental health services, economic growth, better treatment for veterans, and responsible use of tax dollars to balance needs and wants.
"Just spending money doesn't make things better," she said. "You have to spend it in the right places."
Rick Stewart (L)—Secretary of Agriculture
Stewart is an entrepreneur who grew a home-based supplying herbs and spices to co-ops into a $200 million company that he sold to retire at age 48. He spoke of four challenges, three that he said have been created by the government.
"Renewable fuel standards and farm subsidies need to disappear over the next 10 years," he said. "Also tariffs are for losers; we need to get rid of those. Finally, Iowa is a polluting state. We take good, clean water, make it dirty and then send it downstream. These are things we need to fix."
Republicans Sue Meyer and Linda Zuercher, who are running unopposed for County Recorder and County Treasurer, respectively, discussed improvements in their offices including digitizing records and improving customer service. They also thanked voters for showing confidence in them by electing them to office, and pledged to continue working for Clayton County taxpayers.


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package com.mothsoft.alexis.rest.dataset.v1;

import java.sql.Timestamp;
import java.util.List;

import javax.ws.rs.DefaultValue;
import javax.ws.rs.GET;
import javax.ws.rs.Path;
import javax.ws.rs.PathParam;
import javax.ws.rs.Produces;
import javax.ws.rs.QueryParam;
import javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType;

@Path("/data-sets/v1/")
@Produces({ MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON, MediaType.APPLICATION_XML })
public interface DataSetResource {

    @GET
    @Path("/{id}")
    public DataSet getDataSet(@PathParam("id") Long id);

    @GET
    @Path("/{id}/points")
    public List<DataSetPoint> findAndAggregatePointsGroupedByUnit(@PathParam("id") Long dataSetId,
            @QueryParam("startDate") @DefaultValue("1970-01-01 00:00:00") Timestamp startDate,
            @QueryParam("endDate") @DefaultValue("2100-12-31 23:59:59") Timestamp endDate,
            @QueryParam("units") String units);

    @GET
    public List<DataSet> list();

    @GET
    @Path("/correlation/{a}/{b}/{units}")
    public Correlation correlate(@PathParam("a") Long dataSetAId, @PathParam("b") Long dataSetBId,
            @QueryParam("startDate") Timestamp startDate, @QueryParam("endDate") Timestamp endDate,
            @PathParam("units") String units);

}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


The C3H strain was developed by STRONG in 1920 from a cross of BAGG ALBINO female with DBA male. It was selected for a high incidence of mammary tumours. This sensitivity to mammary tumours is due to an exogenous virus transmitted by the mother's milk (the Mouse Mammary Tumour Virus – MMTV). In 1930, STRONG sent a colony to ANDERVONT who in turn sent one to HESTON (at generation F35). HESTON stock was then transferred to the NIH in 1951 (generation F51).
C3H/HeN mice are used in a wide range of studies. They are homozygous for the Pde6brd1 allele and have an early onset severe retinal degeneration that causes blindness at weaning age.This strain has a high incidence of hepatoma. Even if MMTV is not present, virgin and breeding females can develop mammary tumours. Despite an atherogenic diet, C3H/HeN mice do not develop aortic atherosclerosis, in contrast to the C57BL/6J. There is a genetically mediated difference between the C3H/HeN and the C3H/HeJ regarding their response to bacterial endotoxin (LPS). This response is linked to the TL4 protein (Toll-like receptor 4; previously lps). C3H/HeN are Tlr4lps-n (toll-like receptor 4; normal LPS response), previously LPSn. This strain will have a normal response to an LPS challenge, it is said to be endotoxin-sensitive. Per contra, the C3H/HeJ strain is Tlr4lps-d, previously LPSn and said to be endotoxin-resistant.
Important: This strain no longer carries MMTV (Mouse Mammary Tumour Virus).


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package aip0215

import (
	"regexp"
	"strings"

	"github.com/googleapis/api-linter/lint"
	"github.com/googleapis/api-linter/locations"
	"github.com/googleapis/api-linter/rules/internal/utils"
	"github.com/jhump/protoreflect/desc"
)

var versionedPackages = &lint.FileRule{
	Name: lint.NewRuleName(215, "versioned-packages"),
	OnlyIf: func(f *desc.FileDescriptor) bool {
		// Common protos are exempt.
		if utils.IsCommonProto(f) {
			return false
		}

		// Ignore this if there is no package.
		segments := strings.Split(f.GetPackage(), ".")
		if len(segments) == 1 && segments[0] == "" {
			return false
		}

		// Exempt anything containing .type, or .v1master, .v2master, .master, etc.
		for _, segment := range segments {
			if segment == "type" || strings.HasSuffix(segment, "master") || strings.HasSuffix(segment, "main") {
				return false
			}
		}

		// Everything else should follow the rule.
		return true
	},
	LintFile: func(f *desc.FileDescriptor) []lint.Problem {
		if !version.MatchString(f.GetPackage()) {
			return []lint.Problem{{
				Message:    "API components should be in versioned packages.",
				Descriptor: f,
				Location:   locations.FilePackage(f),
			}}
		}
		return nil
	},
}

var version = regexp.MustCompile(`\.v[\d]+(p[\d]+)?(alpha|beta|eap|test)?[\d]*`)


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Zachary Michael Zach Cregger, born in Arlington County Virginia (38 years old) (born March 1 1981) is an American actor writer director and producer. He is known as a member of the New York City-based comedy troupe Whitest Kids U' Know. He also starred in the film Miss March which he directed and wrote with his WKUK friend Trevor Moore.
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Gjoreski, Hristijan, Ciliberto, Mathias, Ordoñez Morales, Francisco Javier, Roggen, Daniel, Mekki, Sami and Valentin, Stefan (2017) A versatile annotated dataset for multimodal locomotion analytics with mobile devices. In: The 15th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2017), Sunday 5th - Wednesday 8th November 2017, Delft, The Netherlands.
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Found 7 Documents (Results 1–3)
Wong, C. W.
Corrigendum: Maxwell equations and the redundant gauge degrees of freedom. (Corrigendum: Maxwell equations and the redundant gauge degree of freedom.) (English) Zbl 1202.78006
Eur. J. Phys. 31, No. 5, 1305 (2010).
MSC: 78A25 42A38 81V10
\textit{C. W. Wong}, Eur. J. Phys. 31, No. 5, 1305 (2010; Zbl 1202.78006)
Lee, Richard C. H.; Wong, C. W.; Xu, Cheng-Zhong; Yim, L. H.; Yung, S. P.
A Lyapunov-type condition for robust feedback stability of delay control systems. (English) Zbl 1106.93047
IMA J. Math. Control Inf. 23, No. 1, 97-111 (2006).
MSC: 93D20 93D09 93C15
\textit{R. C. H. Lee} et al., IMA J. Math. Control Inf. 23, No. 1, 97--111 (2006; Zbl 1106.93047)
Cheung, W.-S.; Wong, C.-W.
Cartan form via an exterior differential system approach. (English) Zbl 0988.58002
Int. J. Differ. Equ. Appl. 4, No. 3, 329-347 (2002).
Reviewer: Dimitar A.Kolev (Sofia)
MSC: 58A15 58A17 49Q20
\textit{W. S. Cheung} and \textit{C. W. Wong}, Int. J. Differ. Equ. Appl. 4, No. 3, 329--347 (2002; Zbl 0988.58002)
Suen, Wai-Mo (2)
Maassen van den Brink, Alec (1)
Yim, L. H. (1)
Int. J. Differ. Equ. Appl. (1)
IMA J. Math. Control Inf. (1)
Phys. Lett., A (1)
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