Some old stories are dispatches from another planet.

Take Jeane Hoffman’s report on a "ladies baseball clinic" sponsored
by the Dodgers and a group called Secretaries of Sports. Nearly 300
"lady fans" showed up for the event at Bullocks’ downtown auditorium.

Jerry Doggett pretended to announce an inning between the Dodgers
and Braves and three "fearless women fans" kept score. Dodger players
and officials explained various parts of the game, including the
meaning of such terms as "cunning thumb" and "daily wind." I’d never
heard of either.

Poor Sandy Koufax. He had to answer a question about a baseball
player’s social life: "Well, I don’t know what you mean by social life.
… If you mean my private life, all I have is Sunday night and Monday
… that’s only during the season, of course."

–Keith Thursby