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...football player at Lafayette College (1924), major-league catcher during the '20s and '30s, and then one of the American League's most respected umpires; of a heart attack; in Evanston, Ill. Once, as a Red Sox catcher, Berry blocked a dash to home plate by Babe Ruth. Berry knocked the Babe so hard that he did a mid-air headstand, landed in a heap and was out of the game two weeks recovering from the injury. "But in spite of all I'd done to him," recalled Berry, "he scored...
...general, the President's selections were obvious enough (Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Willie Mays and the like). They spread across a movie infantry-platoon ethnic spectrum. As New York Times Columnist Red Smith noted, Nixon "saluted young and old, white and black, Latin and Nordic, lefthander and righthander, Catholic and WASP, Jew and American Indian." No one would be offended, except perhaps a handful of Liechtensteiner and Tibetan diamond buffs...
Lolich grew up contrary, but if he had not, baseball might well have made him so. For nine years he has been one of the game's outstanding pitchers. But like Lou Gehrig, who labored first in the shadow of Babe Ruth and then Joe DiMaggio, Lolich has usually seemed to be second best. He had the initial misfortune of being teamed with the Peck's Bad Boy of baseball, Denny McLain. The outstanding performance of Lolich's career-three World Series victories over the St. Louis Cardinals in 1968 -was virtually lost in the glare...
...course playing in the World Series was always something different, even for a Yankee. If something went wrong, everyone in the world knew about it, and there was always somebody who couldn't stand the heat. It even happened to the Babe once, back in 1922 against the Giants, and the Babe used to laugh at things that made normal people's hair stand on end. Still, things shouldn't have turned out the way they...
...used to be selling fresh water to the British garrison. Ajman (pop. 4,000), with no oil and only a primitive fishing industry, survives primarily by selling stamps to philatelists of the world, who are charmed by Arab postage bearing the images of the Kennedy brothers, Joe DiMaggio and Babe Ruth...