slicker

For Brown’s Petaluma shop, there are no sales of bait or commercial gear — “no more boots, no more rain slickers, all that business is gone and there’s nothing to replace it.”

The slicker, untacked balls used in Major League Baseball — unlike the pre-tacked balls Yamamoto used in Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball league — affected his typically devastating splitter command.

O'Malley was the slicker of the two on the feet, landing a variety of damaging strikes including punch combinations and a huge knee.

For one thing, the local spots are much slicker.

He will also have to get used to a slicker ball.