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Harvard vs. Yale, Yale Field, November 21, 1908. Nobody on the field was paid to play, an arrangement the colleges maintained for another hundred and thirteen years.
Plate I. Harvard vs. Yale, Yale Field, November 21, 1908. Nobody on the field was paid to play, an arrangement the colleges maintained for another hundred and thirteen years. — George R. Lawrence Co., panoramic photograph, Library of Congress; public domain. §

Gus calls the game with the absolute conviction of a man who has never once been sure of anything correctly; Trudy corrects him, one quip per correction, receipt attached. Her corrections are the fold of every column.

Gus

the sports desk

He called games before your father was born, or so he says; the record, as usual, says otherwise. He refers to himself as “this reporter” and has never once been unsure of anything, including the many things he is wrong about. Every one of them gets corrected on the page, by Trudy, with the receipt. He is not real. Neither, frankly, are most of his facts — which is why she is here.

Trudy

who corrects Gus

Four seasons on the sideline at Texas Stadium, and she knows more sports history than anyone on earth — it cost her nothing to learn it, which annoys the men it should. She corrects the facts and she corrects the century, one quip at a time, receipt attached. She is not real. Her corrections are.

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The desk is new. Gus has not filed yet; Trudy has nothing to correct, which she says is a first.