Underline the phrase that shows people were surprised by Champion’s decision to pay baseball players It was considered a bold move to decide to openly pay players to play
baseball, and it can be credited to Club President Aaron B. Champion,
who came up with the idea. In 1869, the Reds' player-manager Harry vedt
Wright, known as the “Father of Professional Baseball," and his team
toured the country and won sixty games without a single loss. Although
the National Association didn't want to support the professional baseball
movement, they were overruled. Major League baseball in America
had begun.

i pretty sure it is old

explanation:

answer: your option is c.

explanation:

first of all the mood needs to be defined: it is obviously a mood of deceitful relief and serenity. why? because the cape horn is one of the most violent maritime regions of earth and although it has been left behind, it is a personification of ahab’s delirium and the fact that the end of the passage speaks about it about being “hidden” but “raving” immediately conveys the feeling the calm is not permanent but fleeting.

furthermore, the oxymoron “mild stun'sails” is the first instance of such feeling as the adjective “mild” is associated with “stunned” underscoring the fleeting nature of this “tranquil” moment. and the contrasts keep piling up, with the opposition between “dark den” and “blessed light and air” to end with the final conclusion that leaves the reader with the uneasy knowledge that this is just a reprieve.