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...corner of what is now the United States. Spaniards were first in the southeastern and southwestern corners. But the Northwest Corner, as everyone knows, was first occupied by Paul Bunyan, the great logger. He went there to get milk of the Western whale to cure the mysterious illness of Babe, his blue ox. Puget Sound is the grave he dug for Babe when he thought the ox would die, and Washington's Cascade Mountains are the dirt Paul and his loggers heaved up in their digging...
While Brooklyn fans were shouting to each other over this unexpected bargain performance, the unprecedented feat of Johnny Vander Meer spread all over the world. First to congratulate him was Spectator Babe Ruth. "Nice going, kid," boomed the Babe, a pitcher once himself, as he put his arm around the youngster and blinked into the floodlights, doubtless recalling his own famed streaks of three homeruns in one game in the World Series of 1926, again...
...Thayer, who had written the poem for the paper his friend Willie Hearst had recently acquired, declared that no real-life Casey existed. But baseball fans down the decades have had to invent not one but many. Up Boston way, they were sure Casey was King Kelly, the Babe Ruth of the '80s, whom the Boston National League club had bought for the unheard of price of $10,000 from the White Stockings in 1887. Almost every community had its Casey and announced it in the public prints...
...First National-Warner Bros.). Of old-time Cinemactor Douglas Fairbanks' achievements, perhaps the greatest was his Puckish, jaunty, devil-may-care role of Robin Hood (1922). Replacing Douglas Fairbanks in Robin's bounding buskins is as much of a he-man's job as pinchhitting for Babe Ruth. In the current cinema lithe, lanky Errol Flynn hits no home run. but scores a clean two-bagger standing up. Lacking Fairbanks' punch and ken. he has Robin's form and flair down pat. If prankish Actor Fairbanks was a man's Robin Hood, handsome, romantic...
...businessman, played host to admirers in his café on Fisherman's Wharf. When the time came round to sign a contract for his junior year, Little Businessman Di Maggio refused $25,000. He thought he was worth $40,000-not a cent less. Remembering well that Yankee Babe Ruth once got $80,000 a year from Owner Jacob Ruppert, Di Maggio held out all through the spring training season...