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...after day, Rookie Pitcher Alva Holloman of the St. Louis Browns plucked at Manager Marty Marion's sleeve. "I'm not a bullpen pitcher," "Bobo" Holloman would say. "I'm a starting pitcher. Give me a chance." Manager Marion just kept shaking his head. Two or three times, Bobo was called in from the bull pen to do a little relief pitching. But the big (205 Ibs., 6 ft. 2 in.), 27-year-old righthander was not very impressive: ten hits, five earned runs in 5½ innings. One night last week, tired of Bobo...
...hard core of 2,471 other drizzle-soaked Browns fans. Inning after inning, Bobo went through the initial-scratching routine just once. But inning after inning, mixing fast balls, curves and sinkers, Bobo set the Athletics down. By the fifth, it began to occur to the fans that Rookie Holloman hadn't give up a hit: when one of the A's got to first on a slow roller to the mound that Bobo juggled for a moment, the crowd set up a shout for the benefit of the official scorer: "Error...
...Louis (Holloman) 6, Philadelphia...
Moon Disks. Menzel is convinced that rarer types of mirages explain most flying saucers. Part of his conviction comes from something he saw while driving across New Mexico from Holloman Air Force Base to Alamogordo. It was a clear, cool night and a full moon had risen. Menzel noticed near the moon two bright objects which he took at first for the stars Castor and Pollux. His astronomer's knowledge told him that Castor and Pollux would not be visible at that season, so he lowered the car window to get a better look. The stars turned into fuzzy...
...certainly imaginary; many of the "sighters" are newspaper delivery boys, excitable old ladies and other people with no technical training. But a considerable number of technical men have sighted, or believed they have sighted, mysterious flying objects. In New Mexico, the rocket experts of White Sands Proving Ground and Holloman Air Force Base are interested-and baffled...