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...Baltimore for a game with the Chicago White Sox, then to Minnesota for the series with the Twins and out to Los Angeles for the games with the Angels. He talked to Hank Bauer and the birds, as well as Oriole General Manager Lee MacPhail, in the dugout, on buses, planes and in dressing rooms. And in the end he was showing symptoms of becoming an Oriole fanatic...
...changed his mind and was commissioned an infantry officer in June 1916. Under fire, he matured fast as a man and as a poet. "Hideous landscape here," he wrote home. "Vile poisons, foul language. Everything unnatural, broken, blasted; the distortion of the dead, whose unburiable bodies sit outside the dugout all day, all night, the most execrable sights on earth. In poetry we call them the most glorious...
...settlement (plus fees), and all during the 1962 season, her lawyer was diligently suing for payment. At one point, Willie's debts topped $100,000, and his lawyers recommended bankruptcy. That year, Mays led the league in home runs, batted .304-and collapsed from nervous exhaustion in the dugout in September. Starting the 1963 season, he went through the first month tense, nervous, and hitting a dismal...
...this year's contest came from such chilly climes as Worcester, Mass., and included a group of 17 from Indiana. Flying into San Jose two weeks ago, they boarded buses, rode four hours to Puerto Viejo -the end of the road. There they packed their gear into dugout canoes equipped with outboards, put-putted for another nine hours down the Sarapiqui River and the San Juan. The fishing more than made up for the hardship. One of the world's ten top gamefish, the tarpon is a jumping fool that often runs well over 100 Ibs., can snap...
Sportswriters called him "the ballplayer Ring Lardner missed," and when Yogi was beaned in Detroit, the papers reported: "Xray pictures of Berra's head showed nothing." Rival players hung by one hand from the dugout roof when he came to bat, scratching their armpits with the other. "Hey, Yog," they yelled. "You still sleeping in trees?" One opposing catcher used to watch Yogi step into the batting cage, then bellow: "Quick, men! Shut the gate! You got him." TV even got into the act with a "Yogi Bear" cartoon series about an animal that walks like...