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...into the game with the late Connie Mack's Milwaukee club and was the first player to bat in the modern World Series; in Burlington, Wis. Playing centerfield for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Ginger Beaumont stepped to the plate against the Boston Pilgrims' (now the Red Sox) famed Denton ("Cy") Young in the first (1903) Series game, flied...
...summer afternoon in 1890, a gawky farm hand named Denton True Young came down from "the Ohio hills to try out as a pitcher for the Canton baseball team of the Tri-State League. He had no uniform, and the Canton manager did not even bother to use a catcher. One of the team's best batters simply stood in front of the grandstand, and the kid started firing the ball past him. The batter never got a piece of it, and the big farmer's fast ball almost tore up the grandstand backboard. "Looks like a cyclone...
...Four-fifths of all victims of stab wounds through the heart die before reaching a hospital, but the rest have a three-to-one chance of survival if treated promptly and properly, reported Houston's Dr. Denton Cooley in Miami. He and his colleagues advise against immediate operation under emergency conditions. Doctors should first try to resuscitate the patient by draining blood from the heart sac and giving transfusions to counteract shock. Only if this is not quickly effective should they open the chest to stitch up the heart, for it is in this drastic operation, which often...
...painting the bank, and then ducked into a barber shop. When the new sheriff arrived, Krum residents called: "Don't go in there. He's crazy." But Hodges drew his pistol, walked up to the barber shop, and called: "This is the sheriff of Denton County. Come...
...years he hoped to get his sight back and traveled around the country consulting eye specialists. But last November, resigned to his fate, he went to Morristown, N.J., got a fawn-colored seeing-eye dog, a boxer named Candy. Back in Denton, he started walking to his office every morning with Candy's assistance. Last week bad luck hit the sheriff again. He had no way of knowing, as he set out for work early one morning, that he was walking through a thick fog. A jeep driver, delivering newspapers, failed to see him until too late...