Summer Liebling iv: And you thought catamarans were degenerate

         

  One had only to be

  in Florida to wit-

  ness the decline of

  stealing second, af-

  ter Ty Cobb had set

  the standard by fly-

  ing in with sharpen-

  ed spikes. This is

  what passes for ath-

  letic intimidation

  in Tampa these days.

  And as for the blue

  muleta, is there a

  self-respecting bull

  who'd bother with it?
  
  O Barbary, o mores ..
  

A.J. Liebling
The Sweet Science
1956
op. cit.