Word: hoak
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Saturday, July 31, the Legion's state adjutant, Edward Hoak, 52, learned that eight Legionnaires had developed chest pains and fevers in the week since the convention and that a ninth had died. The bad news soon grew from a trickle to a torrent. Next day a note from his secretary informed him that another Legionnaire had died; a colleague telephoned to report yet another death. Calls to other Legion officials turned up still more conventiongoers in hospitals...
...Hoak went to bed that Sunday night without reaching state health authorities. On Monday morning, they called him. Having heard that several Legionnaires had entered a Williamsport hospital with symptoms of something that soon came to be known as "Legion Disease," an official in the state's division of communicable diseases asked Hoak if he was aware of an unusual number of illnesses among his colleagues. Hoak's reply confirmed the worst: there was an invisible, impersonal mass killer on the loose. The knowledge rekindled, despite all the advances of modern medicine, humanity's ancient memories...
...super-stars were on that team? How many great names will hit the plaques at Cooperstown? Maybe one. In case you've forgotten, here is the list of memorables: catchers. Smokey Burgess and Hal Smith; first base, Dick Stuart: second base, Bill Mazeroski, shortstop, Dick Groat; third base, Don Hoak; and the fabulous, famous outfield--Bill Virdon, Bob "Hound dog" Skinner and Roberto Clemente. And on the in-famous mound staff, such immortal 20-game winners as Vernon "Deacon" Law, Bob Friend. Elroy Face and Harvey Haddix...
...Bucs became unchallengeable heroes, the odds are good for the '71 Pirates. Just as I fought with my friends to get Topps cards of Mazeroski, Groat and Hoak, so too bubble gum may benefit in Dravosburg or Vandergriff from Cash, Hernandez, and Pagan...