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...their special brand of umpire-baiting, draw larger crowds than Softball's Di Maggios. No one knows how many casual customers became confirmed the day Umpire Wilson was thus bawled out by an exasperated lady catcher: "Listen, big boy, if you'd take your lamps off the batter's knees long enough to look around, maybe you'd see more of these pitches coming over as strikes...
...complain about the weeds in your garden. Eat them. There is nothing quite like a tossed weed salad, preceded by an entree of burdock stems in batter, and topped off by cattail-pollen pancakes...
Berg, who seems to like the warm weather, twirled his second shutout in four days, and was in superb form. Sixteen straight batters faced him and sat down before Husky left-fielder Hank Bartelloni bunted toward first. Berg made the play to Bob Slattery just a tick after Bartelloni had crossed the bag. It was a hit beyond doubt. The next batter promptly banged into a Berg-to-Gleason-to Slattery double play...
...week. Bombers from Britain were over France and the Low Countries; over Czecho-Slovakia, East Prussia, the Baltic seacoast, southern and northwestern Ger many; over factories making planes, tanks, dyes, submarine parts, aircraft motors, artillery, ammunition. Russian four-motored bombers roared out of the dark ness over Poland to batter the power stations and railroad centers at Königsberg, in East Prussia; and the machine-tool plants, warehouses, chemical factories and shipyards at Danzig on the Baltic...
...league baseball last week got ready to open its 1943 season in the mood of tempered optimism of a batter running out a three-bagger with two out and a cross eyed player next at bat. Columnist Damon Runyon quoted odds of 9-to-5 that the major leagues would not be able to play out their 1943 schedules. Already some 225 of last year's 400 major leaguers had gone into the services. Nobody, not even Manpower Boss Paul V. McNutt, knew how soon local draft boards would call the elderly and ailing ballplayers still left...