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...BONANZA! slapped on everything from brussels sprouts to lawnmowers-and, of late, records. In the past, the quality-cautious shopper could rightfully assume that those cut-rate LPs racked next to the vegetable bins were, from a musical standpoint, about as choice a bargain as last week's Bibb lettuce. Recently, however, several giants of the recording industry have launched new lines of low-cost (from $1.98 to $3) classical records that are honest-to-goodness bargains. Designed for distribution in supermarkets and drugstores as well as record shops, many of these cut-rate classics are as good...
...cannot keep from.working with his hands, he rebuilt a loo-year-old farmhouse from a tumbledown wreck, sanded his own floors, put in plumbing and electricity. On his 80 acres he raises cattle (56 beefy Herefords) and corn (yield: no bu. per acre), enjoys gardening (from Bibb lettuce to small yews) and finishing furniture in his home workshop ("It's the scabbiest workshop you've ever seen...
...Bibb has no objection at all when a college ballplayer is so good that he is assured of a career in the majors. Texas has sent some, including Dodger Innelder Randy Jackson and Boston Manager Pinky Higgins, and Bibb himself went to the Chicago White Sox directly from the Texas campus in 1920. A keg-shaped, hard-hitting outfielder, he stayed in the majors for twelve years, averaged .312 at bat. But today, says Bibb, many boys with too little talent are tempted to sign baseball contracts and quit school. The Kansas City Athletics, for example, have signed 322 collegians...
Bush Leagues & Bonuses. All over the country, college coaches echo Bibb's caustic comments. Things were bad enough when the major leagues paid polite lip service to their own rule forbidding dickering with collegians between sophomore year and graduation. But even that rule has been rescinded. Some 35% of the players on today's big-league clubs started their careers on college campuses. Some, like the Chicago Cubs' Moe Drabowsky (Trinity College), skipped the minors and started in the big time. Others, like Milwaukee's Pitcher Gene Conley (Washington State), St. Louis' Shortstop Alvin Dark...
This week, while he prepared for the regional playoffs with Arizona and a probable trip to the collegiate world series in Omaha, Bibb Falk worried less that he might lose a game than that he might lose most of his team to his mortal enemies. "They say one thing and do something else," he foamed. "They're all for themselves and don't give a damn about minors or colleges. The trouble with general managers is that they never went to college. They cheat on bonuses, cheat on anything. They need another Judge Landis in baseball to clean...