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Quote #10
Wickitt talked low as he studied Roy. "That ain't what I see. He looks old and beat up. Last week he had a mile-high bellyache in a ladies' hospital. They say he could drop dead any minute. Bear up and curve 'em low. I don't think he can bend to his knees. Get one strike on him and he will be your nookie." (10.127)
The championship game is on the line, and the opposing team's coach and pitcher size up the once-strong Roy. Wickitt's description of Roy as having a "mile-high bellyache in a ladies' hospital" takes away his masculine power.