Word: conlan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Robert E. West, president of Kansas City's Robert S. Conlan Associates, was called because his firm sold an astonishing 500 reports last year throughout the Midwest. West admitted that his entire highly publicized staff of experienced "verifiers," program editors, tabulators and calculators" consists of one woman. Co-Owner Mrs. Hallie Jones. In her off hours, said West. Mrs. Jones manages the office, handles the bookkeeping, and keeps the company's records (none of which could be produced). All field-survey records, explained West, are destroyed "when a girl has time.'' or within three months...
Even the umpires caught stage fright. Jocko Conlan called the Giants' Willie Mays both "safe" and "out" on the same play (he meant "out"), later pleaded amnesia: "I don't remember doing any such thing." Shrugged Mays: "I guess I was out." One thing Conlan didn't forget: to face the TV cameras when he dusted off home plate-just in case his pants split...
...other dangers. Physical injuries are common. Most dangerous assignment: calling balls and strikes behind home plate, where the umpire is an easy mark for a stray fastball or foul tip. Before he traded his thin, hair-stuffed National League chest protector for an inflated American League model, fragile Jocko Conlan absorbed a regular beating. His hospital record: two broken collarbones, two broken elbows. Last fall in Baltimore, American Leaguer Larry Napp was struck by three successive pitches-one on the mask, two in the groin-and had to be carried off the field on a stretcher. The National League...