Word: hemus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into a base runner's teeth. He is, says ex-Teammate Joe Garagiola, a "saint with money." Only once, in 1959, has he openly disputed an umpire's call. The ump's reaction was hilarious-he gaped at Musial, then whirled and thumbed Cardinal Manager Solly Hemus, standing silently to one side, out of the game. In the locker room, a cigar clamped in his caramel-tan face, Musial keeps things relaxed with an endless supply of gentle practical jokes and good-humored cracks. He once told John F. Kennedy: "They tell...
When the lodge secrets were published in July, National Leaguers could not wait to see Black Sheep Brosnan trip over his big mouth and fall right out of baseball. "You think this book was funny?" chortled Cardinals' Manager Solly Hemus, Brosnan's pet hate and the man who traded him to Cincinnati. "Wait until you see him pitch...