Poetry · Chapter
A. B. Magnus explained
A brief poetic interlude about a baseball game between the Reds and the Sox, where the umpires delay the start to wait for A.
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A brief poetic interlude about a baseball game between the Reds and the Sox, where the umpires delay the start to wait for A. B. Magnus to take his seat in the box.
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“The Reds were to battle the Sox, And ’twas long after two by all clocks, But the umps said, “quit naggin’ us; We’ll wait till Ad Magnus Comes in and gets set in his box.””
The Reds were scheduled to play the Sox, and it was well past two o'clock, but the umpires told everyone to stop complaining because they would wait for Ad Magnus to arrive and settle into his seat.
The chapter humorously depicts the umpires' deference to a late-arriving spectator, A. B. Magnus.
