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...needed a good lefthand pitcher, a hot infielder and a power hitter. In Denver, or anywhere else, such a trio is hard to find. But suddenly the captain's furrowed brow unfurrowed, and he snapped his fingers. His neighbor, "Al" Hessel, aged 9, could pitch, field and bat with the best of his teammates. Al was the triple threat he was looking for. There was only one drawback: Al was a girl...
...Alice is accepted as one of the boys, even by the opposition: "They don't razz me much any more. When I started fogging my fast ball in there, they quit." And she is doing all right at bat: she has whacked three home runs in nine games, and her current batting average is .700. Last week, Alice emulated her idol, Bob Feller, by pitching a no-hitter. Southpaw Alice, whose opinion of her teammates' ability is not high ("Our shortstop can't catch the ball, and our catcher's terrible, too . . . The boys should practice...
...compensations, notably when he could go on jungle safari with the natives to gather birds' nests. In the land where the orchids grow wild, the men have grown tame, but collecting birds' nests still requires skill and daring. Slithering over masses of cockroaches, the natives enter bat-infested limestone caves. On rattan ladders, they climb 100 feet or so to gather the nests of swiftlets. These contain the birds' hardened saliva, basic ingredient of bird's-nest soup. The $100,000-a-year take from this export (to China) does its bit to pull British North...
...season pennant favorites with the majority of baseball writers, were finally beginning to act as advertised. Vollmer's sensational spree was not the whole story: the Red Sox have power to spare with Williams, Vern Stephens, and Billy Goodman, the league batting champion. The team is better off this year in "bench" (i.e., reserve) infield strength supplied by Lou Boudreau, deposed Cleveland manager. Day after day, playing where he is needed most, Boudreau has sparked the Red Sox at bat and afield...
...King" Selfridge grabbed all the publicity he could (Bleriot's little plane was on display in the store the day after it flew the Channel), advertised as no London merchant had ever advertised before. Selfridge's offered customers "101 unusual services," including expert umbrella rolling, cricket bat oiling, pipe cleaning, wig-making, wart removing. The store's "Great Luncheon Rooms" offered Southern U.S. cooking, such as "Fried Chicken, Maryland Cream Chicken, Corn...