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Brooklyn Dodger fans are used to great suffering. With particular anguish, they can remember the time Hack Wilson was hit on the head by a fly ball while sassing the bleachers; the time three Dodgers tried to slide into the same base at the same time; the time Babe Herman's pants caught fire because he forgot to douse his cigar before putting it in his pocket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Brooklyn Justice | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

...landed 476 feet, 10 inches from homeplate and rolled another 101 feet. Pitchers, usually far ahead of batters in the spring, were throwing him outside balls. When they did, 31-year-old Di Mag practiced hitting to right field (the right field home run fence at Yankee Stadium, once Babe Ruth's pet target, is the closest). His 30-game R.B.I, total was up to a lofty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Great Yankee | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

...sizable things. He dug out Lake Michigan to mix concrete in so that he could build the Rocky Mountains. In the winter of the Blue Snow, when the Pacific Ocean was frozen clean over, he supplied the country with the standard grade of white snow hauled from China by Babe, his blue ox. But Paul was a lumberman at heart. One day while he was combing his beard with a pine tree, he invented mass production in the logging business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LUMBER: Needed: Paul & Babe | 3/4/1946 | See Source »

Sixteen years pass by and the banished babe is now a charming shepherdess loved by a prince. Peasants dance, bumpkins clown, rogues play tricks, and after a few fairy-tale snags, everyone is reunited and lives happily ever after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old Play in Manhattan, Jan. 28, 1946 | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

Most versatile woman athlete: Mildred ("Babe") Didrikson Zaharias, who won A.P.'s "woman of the year" award 13 years ago as a track star, repeated this year as a golfer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Superlatives, 1945 | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

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