play pepper

[Joel S. Berson]

At 4/10/2011 11:32 PM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
>I don't know how you play pepper with a wall -- perhaps you throw the ball
>against the wall and field it, and throw and field, etc.

Another misattribution to Spaulding?  The ball thrown against the
wall must be a Spaldeen.  :-)

I think the idea is that Adrian Gonzales will hit many line drives
that bounce off the Green Monster and back at the outfielder(s) as
quickly as a ball is hit to the fielders in a pepper game.  A "hot pepper".

Joel


>DanG
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>On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 11:07 PM, victor steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>wrote:
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> > In my sheltered existence, I've never heard the expression or been
> > aware of the underlying ball drill. So, when I heard a comment during
> > the Yankees-Red Sox broadcast (ESPN) that Adrian Gonzales will "play
> > pepper with the Green Monster", my ears perked up.

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