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...fair audiences, in fact, do not want to see a talented fellow who can impersonate anybody. They want to meet Bat Masterson; they are not interested in an actor called Gene Barry, who happens to be a Jewish boy from Brooklyn. When a youthful fan at Canada's Calgary Stampede handed him a snare drum, and asked "Would you sign this, Bat?", Barry snapped: "My name is Gene Barry," and bashed his gold-headed Bat Masterson cane right through the head of the drum. He was not asked back...
When starting pitchers insisted "I'm not tired," Casey would growl, "I'm not tired either, so I'm gonna bring in a new man before I get tired watchin'." Batters resented being replaced by pinch hitters-sometimes before their first turn at bat. Whenever a Yankee player made a mistake, Stengel would discuss it for hours with New York sportswriters-"my writers"-in that incredible prose known as "Stengelese." "You open a paper in the morning," Third Baseman Clete Boyer once complained, "and you read how lousy...
...they lost to the reluctant Braves and bounced back to third again. The second-place (1-game) San Francisco Giants had been waiting breathlessly all week for Pitcher Juan Marichal to get back in action after an eight-game suspension for beaning the Dodgers' John Roseboro with a bat. Then word got to Marichal that Roseboro was suing him for $110,000. He lost to the Philadelphia Phillies...
Died. Paul ("Big Poison") Waner, 62, one of baseball's greatest hitters, a bat-boy-sized (153 Ibs.) lefthander who went for singles, not homers, and in 20 years in the majors, 15 with the Pittsburgh Pirates, sprayed out 3,152 hits for a .333 average, before retiring in 1945 to occasional coaching jobs-and a niche in the Hall of Fame; of pulmonary emphysema; in Sarasota, Fla. The Big Poison nickname was to distinguish him from his brother and fellow Pirate Lloyd ("Little Poison"), whom he outweighed...
...throw right past the batter's ear. Marichal spun around. "Why do you do that? Why you do that?" he screamed. Roseboro did not answer. He started straight for Marichal, and in front of 42,807 horrified-or delighted, as the case may be-fans, Marichal swung his bat and clubbed Roseboro, knocking him to the ground and opening a bloody gash in his head...