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Television and its instant replay have little reverence for those hulking black buzzard judges of the basepaths. Two egregious cases in point are two plays at the plate in the first games of the 1970 and 1973 Series. In 1970 Ken Burkhardt called the Reds' Bernie Carbo out when, as an instant replay showed, Baltimore catcher Elrod Hendricks missed the tag and Carbo the plate...
...Reds in batting average with .334, but in the power categories he has fallen behind Cincy's Catcher and Cleanup Man Johnny Bench, who leads the majors in home runs (40) and RBIs (115), and sets new criteria for excellence at his position No. 5, Rookie Outfielder Bernie Carbo, has the face of a matinee idol, and 19 home runs in only 263 at bats. They are all backed up by Lee May, the quiet first baseman who is called "Mechanical Man" because of his stiff bearing. May led last year's Reds with 38 homers...
...James D. Norris, 59, sports promoter and onetime Mr. Big of boxing; following a heart attack; in Chicago. The son of a Chicago millionaire, Norris won notoriety in the late 1940s and '50s as the boss of the Internation al Boxing Club, through which he and Hoodlum Frankie Carbo held a monopoly on virtually all major fights until 1959, when the U.S. Supreme Court broke their hold. Norris faded from view, quietly operating his vast grain, railroad, real estate and cattle interests plus the Spring Hill Farm stables, Chicago Black Hawks hockey team, and stadiums in Chicago...
Last week, one by one, Sonny's chums and associates paraded before the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly in Washington. There was Sam Margolis, a pudgy, pious Philadelphian, who freely admitted his friendship with Blinky Palermo, who, as everyone knows, is a friend of Frankie Carbo, who in turn is nothing less than elite-at least in his line of work...
...times since 1950, convicted twice (armed robbery, assaulting a police officer), spent a total of three years in prison. His underworld connections are notorious: he worked as a head-knocking labor goon for St. Louis Hoodlum John Vitale, and his boxing career was supervised by stooges of Ganglord Frankie Carbo...