Bang the Drum Slowly Page #2

He's a great player.

I'll stay here.

Forget it for today, Joe.

No, Henry, you go.

Bruce and I will stay here.

Yeah, yeah.

You okay?

Yeah, go.

I'll be right down, Joe.

Would you mind if I watch?

Quarter to 11:
00.

No, I said,

"Would you mind if I watch?"

Paging Mr. Donald Graham.

Mr. Donald Graham.

You're Henry Wiggen.

Paging Mr. Donald Graham.

Hey, would you mind if I sit in?

You know, I read your book, too.

I didn't read

your book, Arthur

but I will, I will, I plan to.

So far, I've just been concerned

with the parts that concern me.

Hey, who did you used to be?

I'm Joe Jaros.

I'm a coach.

I used to be a baby.

These are fifth and two,

fifth and queen.

Red rooster.

Banjo!

That's the first

natural banjo I've had

since the days of Joe DiMaggio

in St. Petersburg.

Hey, wait a minute, here.

15 and 15's 31.

Hey, what's the name

of this game?

15 plus 15

is 32.

32...

Oh, that's right.

That's a double honeybees.

I'm not sure if I'm too clear

on some of these new rules.

What new rules?

There hasn't been any new rules

since the Black SoX scandal,

Big league tegwar

is big league tegwar

known to every

big-time ballplayer

from Boston to California.

And this is the last time

we play without Pearson, Joe.

Arthur, your mind is crumbling.

He's too damn dumb.

- Promise me, Joe.

- I promise you.

I promise you.

I promise on a stack of cards.

Anyway, the way

that Banjo's been hitting

Pearson's sure

to drift down and out.

They're sending him down?

I didn't say nothing.

Well, that's it, then,

they're releasing Pearson?

Well, don't it look

quite obvious?

Well, they can't do that.

Paging Mr. Wiggen.

Paging Mr. Henry Wiggen.

Please pick up

the house telephone.

Forget it, Arthur.

Stick around, hang on.

It's the boss.

I got to go, Joe.

Damn it, Arthur, stick around!

Fair? You call that fair?

I was taught in school

where slavery went out

when Lincoln was shot!

Yeah, so you wrote

across your contract.

Not across my contract.

Maybe the contract

of turnstile turner.

Young players

often end up

old turnstile turners.

All right, let's all calm down.

You're looking very healthy

this morning.

Henry, you keep talking

about $125,000.

I can't do business

that way.

We'll just have to get along

without him.

Some of those pitchers out there

yesterday afternoon

looked very promising.

So I hear.

Any one of them might win

four or five games

if God drops everything else.

I have in my mind

an absolute maXimum figure of...

$60,000.

If you have a good year

this year

we'll make it back

to you neXt year.

I will go on year after year

being paid for the year before.

Now, that shorts me a year

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