DYING ON THIRD
During the days of the Chautauqua circuit, a lecturer by the name of Roscoe Gillmore Stott had a speech he called “Dying on Third.” In baseball terminology, he made the point that the first batter up could hit .500, outrun anyone’s throw to first base, steal second, slide into third, but if that’s as far as he got, no run was scored. He could look very good, but if he “died” on third and he didn’t make it home, it was as if he had never run at all.
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