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...week, with parade, outlandish costumes, drum, corps and sore feet. But at the 49th annual encampment of the United Spanish War Veterans (average age: 72), there was little tipping and no water-squirting. The boys of Santiago Bay, San Juan hill and the Philippines just wanted to sit and bat the breeze about their experiences back...
...Bat met ball with a crack that sent 32,000 Brooklyn fans into an uproar. It was the league-leading Dodgers' first home game in three weeks, they led 1 to 0 and First Baseman Jackie Robinson had lined a drive to left center that looked like a sure triple. In center field, the Philadelphia Phillies' fleet Harry Walker started moving fast. As ball and outfielder converged under the floodlights, Walker pushed his spiked shoes in front of him, dropped to his rump, began to slide. At the last instant he stuck his gloved hand forward and gathered...
Five years later, a full-fledged priest, he returned with his family to Dallas, moved next door to the cathedral. But he could not sleep. Every night someone stole into the cathedral and started tolling the bell. One night, Father Swartsfager hid a baseball bat under his cassock, waited to ambush the bell-ringer. Soon, a tall boy crept out of the shadows. The priest grabbed...
Massive, left-handed Ted Kluszewski is one of the clumsiest first basemen the Memphis Chicks have ever seen. He approaches batted and thrown balls with a kind of baffled defiance, often stops them with his chest or his face. But last week, big 6 ft. 2 in. "Klu" was the talk of the Southern Association. In an afternoon's double-header with New Orleans, in ten times at bat he hit a home run, three triples, two doubles and two singles. His day's work put him far out in front as the league's best batter...
...onetime Indiana University football end, is playing his second season of pro ball. He is on option from the Cincinnati Reds, who gave him a $15,000 bonus for signing. But before he moves up to the majors, he will first have to convince someone that he can bat in more runs than he lets...