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...CRIMSON was on the spot; who could they send to hit under that blazing russet sun? Carodny had been traded to the Times. Ludendorff lanquished in Minneapolis. Suddenly from the dugout the diminutive figure of Frail B. Little-fellow emerged into the garnet...
...Gumrak landing strip, who storm each Junkers transport as it lands in the desperate hope of being flown to safety; the freezing corridors of a field hospital, where the wounded are left to die because there is no medicine; the group of high-ranking generals squatting in a dugout with nothing to do but talk because their units have been wiped out; the early-morning battle in the snow, in which an infantry battalion is shot down to a man between the onrushing rows of Soviet tanks; the transport plane, filled with unopened letters, which lies wrecked on the steppe...
...Mason, he went to Washington in 1934 as a lawyer with NRA. When that job folded, he was so broke that for a time he lived on Fig Newtons. Then his good friend Billy Richardson, part owner of the Washington Senators, gave him a free box alongside the dugout at the ball park...
...mile-high fly to First Baseman Gil Hodges, who wiped the rain from his face and caught it. Then Whitey Lockman, who had hit three home runs off Barney earlier in the season, stepped up. He got a piece of the ball, but it fouled off near the Dodger dugout. Looking up into the lights, Catcher Bruce Edwards thought he was "seeing dozens of baseballs coming down," but managed to catch the right...
...Pittsburgh's Schenley Hotel, where the Giants themselves first heard about their new boss, the players sat around like men in a trance until 4 p.m., when Leo breezed into town. He was bulging with confidence. He had been studying the Giants from the Dodger dugout. He pointed to Johnny Mize, his new first baseman, and said: "Mize, you know you're no Hal Chase around the bag, but you're a good player and a great hitter. I want you to show a little life . . ." Then he singled out Catcher Walker Cooper: "When...