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...whole line of chorus girls. Charles O. Finley, 45, bought a baseball team. A cigar-chewing Chicago insurance man who made $10 million at his trade, "Call Me Charlie" had dreamed of owning a big-league ball club ever since he was twelve and a batboy for the Birmingham Barons. He tried to buy the Detroit Tigers and the Chicago White Sox, failed each time, finally got his chance when the Kansas City Athletics went on the block in 1960. Plunking down $4,000,000 in cash, he confided: "I'm a baseball...
...Bill Veeck knows that free beer is no substitute for good baseball. He plans to shake up the club, "from manager to batboy," talks of building up his pitching staff (he has only one first-string pitcher, Ned Garver) by dusting off famed old (fiftyish) Relief Pitcher Satchel Paige ("Satch plays better now that he's had all his teeth pulled") and buying a Japanese pitcher now playing in Honolulu ("If a ballplayer can help this club I'll take him if he's blue with pink spots"). He will sift the minor leagues for power hitters...
...batmen, are intrigued by Sergeant Michael James ("Mickey") McKeogh. A onetime bellhop from Manhattan, Mickey is chauffeur, dishwasher, letter writer for Lieut. General Dwight ("Ike") Eisenhower, who was a colonel only 14 months ago. Last week Mickey was asked how he got his successive promotions to staff sergeant. Said Batboy McKeogh: "Simple. Every time I get the General one he gets...
...straight from the batboy," declared Elmer Green, Lampoon Janitor, last night. "The CRIMSON ought to take my boys by at least...