Endnote 125 — Ball buckets

A note on gear: cast-off janitorial buckets beat plastic laundry baskets for scooping up practice balls, and it was into one such bucket that Pemulis once vomited before "his kind of suspicious V.D. down at Port Washington" (p. 1024). Commercial ball caddies like the "Ball-Hopper" (p. 1024) are held at the Academy to be "for dilettantes and pussies" (p. 1024).