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Lefty: An American Odyssey

2012· article· en· W1597644809 on OpenAlex

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venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueNine · 2012
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicAmerican Sports and Literature
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLeagueGloryArt historyBiographyArtHistory
DOInot available

Abstract

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Vernona Gomez and Lawrence Goldstone. Lefty: An American Odyssey. New York: Ballantine Books, 2012. 375 pp. Paper, $28.00. Lefty Gomez was one of the five dominant pitchers of the 1930s--Dizzy Dean, Lefty Grove, Carl Hubbell, and Red Ruffing were the others. Gomez pitched for seven New York Yankees pennant winners and is a member of baseball's Hall of Fame. In addition, he was one of the game's most colorful and quotable characters, the first pitcher to make the cover of Time magazine, and a man who was adored by the press and the fans. Yet until the publication of Lefty: An American Odyssey, by Lefty's daughter Vernona and author Lawrence Goldstone, there had been no biography written of Gomez. Lefty Gomez lived a long and productive life and the authors cover it all, from his boyhood in rural Rodeo, California, through his minor-league days with the San Francisco Seals, to his glory years with the Yankees, his career as the most successful salesman ever for the Wilson Sporting Goods company, his long involvement with Babe Ruth League baseball, and his recovery from alcoholism and a nervous breakdown. Lefty's youth in Rodeo reads like something from a John Steinbeck novel of that time and place, for while not too far from San Francisco geographically, Rodeo was a cultural wasteland. Lefty did all the things young boys did in such places, go to school, help with the chores on the farm, and play baseball. Being a big-league ballplayer was all he ever wanted, and though he had to fight his father all the way, he made it to the Seals and then to New York. Gomez pitched for the Yankees from 1930 until he was unceremoniously released by team president Ed Barrow following the 1942 season. He was a four-time twenty-game winner who led the American League in wins, winning percentage, and earned run average twice, and in strikeouts and shutouts three times. By leading the league in wins, earned run average, and strikeouts in both 1934 and 1937, he earned the pitcher's Triple Crown in both those seasons. Lefty was a member of the American League team for the first seven All-Star Games and the starting and winning pitcher of the first game in 1933. Though a notoriously weak batter, he also had the All-Star Game's first run batted in. Gomez was a money pitcher, the one who delivered when a pennant or World Series was on the line. His World Series record was a perfect 6-o. After pitching (and losing) one game for the 1943 Washington Senators, Gomez retired with a 189-102 record and a .649 winning percentage. The Veterans Committee elected him to the Hall of Fame in 1972, a choice that did not meet with unanimous approval by sportswriters. The six-feet-two, 150-pound country boy who came to New York with a cardboard suitcase and ill-fitting clothes soon transformed himself into a well-dressed, well-traveled celebrity. …

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.660
Threshold uncertainty score0.940

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0600.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.018
GPT teacher head0.238
Teacher spread0.219 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it