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Idol of these happy fans is Catcher Josh (for Joshua) Gibson, a hulking 215-pounder with features vaguely suggestive of a very dark Babe Ruth. Sportswriters like Shirley Povich of the Washington Post maintain that Josh Gibson would be worth his weight in gold to any white ball club. The immortal Walter Johnson once valued Gibson...
Tongue Sandwich. At bat, Josh Gibson has a peculiar habit: he rolls up his tongue and sandwiches it, like a hot dog, between his lips. Thus fortified, he can swat a ball a country mile. In 1938, playing against the Memphis Red Sox, he connected for four home runs in a single game. In 1930, in Monessen, Pa., he smashed a homer officially measured at 513 ft.* In a recent doubleheader at Griffith Stadium, he hit three home runs, one for a distance of 485 ft. Last week Gibson led both Negro leagues with a batting average...
Unlike famed but fading Pitcher Satchel Paige, Negro baseball's No. 1 attraction, Josh Gibson is no gaudy eccentric. He drives no cerise roadster, makes no startling statements about a strict diet of fried foods-and, accordingly, receives no $40,000 a year. Josh's salary is $750 a month, plus bonuses that are paid on a hit-or-miss basis. But Josh Gibson has come close to causing an international incident...
...years ago, a Mexican ball club lured Gibson away from the Grays. The Grays threatened to drag him to court if he did not return. Cum Posey finally appealed to Sumner Welles. ". . . However," moaned the Pittsburgh Courier, "when the big fuss started, this Government launched a gigantic 'good will' program in Latin America. ... It's doubtful that Mr. Welles or anyone else in the Government will become involved in the situation now, because we aren't going to do anything in Mexico but spread good will...
Although Chick appeared only last fortnight on the radio, he has been around in detective fiction for 40-odd years, as the adopted 17-year-old son of Nick Carter, the Old Master. Nick's present writers, Walter Gibson and Ed Gruskin, are also Chick's. They revived Nick for radio last April. Though on seperate hours (Nick's time is Monday, 9:30 to 10 p.m., WOR-Mutual), Nick and Chick will visit on each other's programs, put their heads together when crime threatens...