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...lips and go back to watching the game. You give 1,000 cans to one guy, and there is always the outside possibility that 50,000 people will talk about it." In St. Louis, Veeck enraged baseball purists by sending Midget (3 ft. 7 in.) Eddie Gaedel up to bat against the Detroit Tigers. League President Will Harridge instantly wrote midgets out of baseball-and that was all Veeck needed. At 5 ft. 6 in., he insisted, should Yankee Shortstop Phil Rizzuto be classed as "a short ballplayer or a tall midget"? And "are we to assume that giants...
Think about it-a dirty puppet show. An evil puppet chains a lissome nude to a pillar and tickles her to death with a long pink feather. A vast bat helps tear the clothes off an undulating stripper, then flies away with her. A bawdy Balinese girl is seduced in a swimming pool. Bare-breasted beauties hang in bird cages over the audience, or parade around the stage, heaving, wiggling, sighing, shaking, and saucing the house...
...vacuum cleaner, Maury Wills steal everything except the Scoreboard, the National League win 3-1. But in a losing cause, Rollins handled three hot shots to third flawlessly, and shut off a National League rally with a one-hand grab of Tommy Davis' ripping sixth-inning grounder. At bat, he was the only American Leaguer to reach base twice, scored his team's lone run. Said Rollins: "Maybe after you've been picked for the All-Star team five or six times, you can think you're pretty good. But a man in my position...
Perhaps not quite yet, but at $8,000 a year, Rollins is certainly the year's best bargain in baseball. He leads the American League in hits (108), ranks fourth in batting (.315), fourth in R.B.I.s (59). and his hot bat is the main reason why the Twins, seventh-place finishers last season, are basking in the American League's first division. "Even when the team is doing everything wrong," says Minnesota Manager Sam Mele, "Rich does everything right. He hits with one on, he hits with two on, and he hits with none on. With seven more...
...jumped and went back in. it was like bombs hitting the water." On an annual fishing trip to Cape Hatteras. N.C.. Gary Stukes, 37, a sales engineer from Morristown. N.J., had hooked into an angler's dream: a huge blue marlin with a bill like a baseball bat and a temperament to match. In the first few seconds the leaping, head-shaking fish ripped off 400 yds. of 130-lb. test line; it took another 1 hr. 20 min. to get the giant blue into the boat. It measured an even 14 ft. from bill to scythelike tail...