Firebrands
Reuben Winterbottom Jr. is 40 and averaging 16.8 a week. He reads Fragile, which makes the mileage harder to explain, not easier.
The ledger, after seventeen seasons: 12,075 yards, 132 scores. He got to 2,184 once. Not this time. For four clubs.
He is forty, out of Houston, Texas. He keeps his own counsel and his own hours. The route here: the second man taken at his position out of Marchbanks.
Firebrands, 5-3, and eight weeks gone. Barney Grit is in year twenty-three of it. He is out of contract after this.
Has worn the same undershirt since his rookie year and had it repaired twice.