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...operatic Casey is not the Yankees' Casey Stengel but the Mudville hero of Ernest L. Thayer's famed old rhetorical war horse, Casey at the Bat, which builds up to one of the biggest letdowns in all literature-Casey's strikeout with...
...Funster baseball team finished a strong third in the league. Led by former freshman captain Ron Peyton, who not only starred at bat, but pitched, the team included Tony Van Wye at first base, Cook at second, Bob Goldman at short, Mike Porder at third, George Buheler, catching, and Stove Lowey, Bill Dennis and Ted Rose in the outfield...
...passed the bay gelding Straight Face, passed the ridden-out Correspondent a few strides later. Running outside again, he had only Dark Star in front of him. Native Dancer had never been whipped-in eleven races Guerin had never given him more than a single hit with the bat. This time Guerin laid on, all the way down the stretch. The big grey colt came pounding on in one of his famous finishes. But this time his drive came too late; at the finish line Dark Star was still leading him, by a head...
...does play, Smith will bat in the lead-off position and return to his old centerfield spot, and Dick Scheer will move to left and bat fifth. If not, Scheer will remain lead-off batter and center-fielder, and Bob Gremp will bat fifth, playing left...
...bought with a down payment of $4,000 that he had saved (and $4,000 he borrowed from friends). With two full-time employees and a part-time office girl, the company grossed $2,500 a month selling poster paint to artist supply houses. "I saw right off the bat," says Klein, "that the field was too confined." He soon expanded it by selling his paints to mannequin makers and skating rinks (for painting designs under ice). "Well, today we are a big supplier of paint used by the mannequin industry; we have also become the biggest supplier...