the DiMaggio Fragments
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A collection of newspaper sports section clippings, all of which are dated 25 years in the future.
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- Find in the S.I.T. (Library) shadow rift as a Pig Skinner (requires level 2 shadow taint)
When used
On closer inspection, these clippings appear to be reports of the 1953 World Series, between the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers. Apparently Game 1 was nearly called on account of unusual darkness that covered the field despite it being the middle of the day. The stadium lights did little to pierce the gloom, and Yankees second baseman Billy Martin is quoted as saying it was "like playing in a [expletive] cave." In the 8th inning, the score was tied at 1-1, until Yankees pitcher Johnny Sain scored a two-run double, aided by the fact that Dodgers shortstop Pee Wee Reese had mysteriously vanished. No one had seen him leave, and he was never found.
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Game 2 of the '53 World Series was also played in the dark, although ameliorated a bit by the discovery that, although electric lighting was only barely effective, fire seemed to provide a normal amount of light -- and so the turf and outfield wall were lined with torches, and a small bonfire was lit at the grass line behind second base. Brooklyn pitcher Preacher Roe was clearly nervous, walking three and hitting Gil McDougald with a pitch in the first inning. But apart from a 1-run single by Yogi Berra, no other runs were scored until Brooklyn got two in the 4th. The Yankees' Billy Martin tied it up with a home run in the bottom of the 7th, and a Mickey Mantle homer in the 8th finished the game -- after which a sudden, massive swarm of locusts drove everyone out of the stadium.
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Game 3 of the 1953 World Series was played at Brooklyn's Ebbets Field, which fortunately did not suffer either from unnatural darkness or locusts. However, many players on both teams were afflicted with strange and sometimes intense hallucinations -- The Dodgers' Jackie Robinson accused the Yankees of fielding seventeen men, the extra eight being the ghosts of dead players, and the Yankees' Yogi Berra scooped out his own eyeballs with a shoehorn, claiming ecstatically, "I was blind before, but now I can see! " The Brooklyn Dodgers won 2-3.
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Game 4 of the '53 World Series was, quite literally, a bloodbath. The Yankees went through their entire pitching rotation, as each one was ritually sacrificed on the pitcher's mound by the Dodgers, who shouted frenzied oaths and imprecations to a bruised, storm-darkening sky. Dodgers won 7-3, tying the series at 2 games each.
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Game 5 of the 1953 World Series was played at Yankee Stadium, which seemed to have recovered from its previous problems. However, as he stepped up to the plate, the first batter of the game (the Yankees' Gene Woodling) reportedly screamed, "I dedicate this game to the Emperor!" before smashing a home run deep over the center-field wall. At this point, radio and television transmissions cut out, and reports quickly came in that the entire stadium had vanished with everyone inside, leaving only a dead black, acrid-smoking stain upon the earth. It was soon discovered that all other baseball stadiums across the world had suffered the same strange simultaneous fate. League officials declared the game a 1-0 victory for the Yankees, and announced them as the winners of the 1953 -- and Final -- World Series, three games to two.
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