Status Updates From The Cincinnati Kid

Supposed to be the poker equivalent of "The Hustler" by Walter Tevis (which is about pool). It's certainly trying. I'll finish it.

Except I've already read "nigger" enough times to start counting. 4 times in a single paragraph even. This bothers me.

The game resumed. The pitcher, a tall, lean, whip-thin youngster who delivered sidearm, checked his sign, stepped on the rubber, set, threw. There was a sharp, satisfying sound of bat and ball meeting, and Mays drifted over with the supreme grace that made his speed look slow and the ball came to him as though drawn there by a magnet.

Jessup, Richard. The Cincinnati Kid (pp 43-44). PhocionPublishing.Kindle Edition.

"The Cardinals were getting off to a slow start. Musial wasn’t hitting. But then everybody knew that he was a slow starter, and needed the true heat of summer, day after day, to get him going. The Cardinals weren’t going anyplace until he was right."

Jessup, Richard. The Cincinnati Kid (p. 7). Phocion Publishing. Kindle Edition.