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...interviewed at her Long Island mansion for four days and four nights, during which he exasperatingly fails to say a single word to incriminate himself. In fact, he answers all the loaded questions with what the scriptwriter plainly regards as brilliance. Sample question: "What should the com bat officer do in peacetime?" Answer: "Drop dead...
...First man up in the exhibition game in Cleveland was a scrappy shortstop named Leo Durocher. Robert William Andrew Feller took a couple of warmup tosses, then reared back and fired. Leo heard two strikes whistle past so fast that he could not see the ball, then dropped his bat and headed for the dugout. "Hey," the umpire called, "you've got a strike left." "You can have it," Durocher replied, and kept on walking...
Even after age thickened his hips and time tired his quick hands, the New York Giants never seemed to know what to do about Jack Roosevelt Robinson. Their pitchers threw baseballs at his greying head and their bench jockeys winged epithets at his quick temper. Still his big bat, or darting base running, broke up ball games. The very sight of his pigeon-toed trot to position moved the fans on Coogan's Bluff to borrow from Yankee territory that ultimate complaint, the long Bronx cheer. Even when taking their lumps from every other team in the league...
Only One Compromise. The Giants got a bargain. Almost 38, Jackie Robinson is far slower afield and less powerful at bat (.275) than in his heyday of six successive over-.300 seasons. But for upwards of $30,000, plus a journeyman left-handed pitcher, the sixth-place Giants bought one of baseball's alltime great figures, a pro good enough to make his mark in the record books while carrying a blackman's special burden on his back...
...Stanley Industries' "Bat-em Catch-em" ($10) an automatic pitcher, flings out plastic baseballs for more than 30 ft. for the young catcher or batter...