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Plimpton's pitching ace, pictured in Sports Illustrator's April Fool's article, is nothing of the sort Instead, he is a Chicago area junior high teacher, says Sports Illustrated photographer I ane Stewart, whose snapshots of the spurious hurler adorn the pages of this week's issues...
While Plimpton's 14-page spread all complete fiction--was intended as a spool, it has unexpectedly prompted people across the nation to call both Sports Illustrated and the Mets asking for more information on the "pitching ace...
...word was coined. In his college days (circa 1912) he led Princeton's football and hockey teams, dazzled classmates and debutantes, then when war came impulsively joined the celebrated flyers of the Lafayette Escadrille. When a headline later reported "HOBEY" BAKER, STAR OF GRIDIRON, IS NOW AN AMERICAN "ACE," no one was surprised. The astonishment came in France about a month after the shooting had ended. Baker, his orders home tucked in his tunic, took a repaired Spad up for a test flight. It crashed, and "the finest damn flier in the air," as his fellow aviators called him, entered...
Alpert and Riopelle racked up points on serving streaks, with an ace apiece against the visitors. And Doyle led the Crimson's now smooth-running, efficient offense to a solid, 15-8 victory...
TORONTO--John Hiller, a former Detroit Tiger relief ace, and Jack Kent Cooke, the flamboyant Washington Redskins owner, were among five named for induction into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame...