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...last Thursday's reopening, sold out eight days in advance, Bob Shawkey, the starting pitcher in the 1923 opener, threw out the first ball. Five of his and Ruth's teammates from the 1923 Yankees (World Series winners that year) were on hand-Waite Hoyt, "Jumping Joe" Dugan, Hinkey Haines, Whitey Witt and Oscar Roettger. The youthful crowd greeted the old heroes with no more than polite applause and saved the biggest ovation for Mickey Mantle, the most nearly contemporary demigod introduced. Even Joe DiMaggio failed to produce much of an explosion among the watchers. Because...
Even indoors, where Tiant was working out, all of his pitches moved well. His knuckleball waved and then broke down as it neared the plate, in the best tradition of Hoyt Wilhelm and Wilbur Wood. The knuckler, a pitch that doesn't require as much strength as the fastball, is a welcome addition to Tiant's arsenal, because he's getting older and won't be able to throw as hard as he used...
Died. Pathologist George Hoyt Whipple, 97, co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1934 for research demonstrating that a liver diet could control pernicious anemia; in Rochester. A Yale graduate, class of 1900, he received his medical degree in 1905 from Johns Hopkins, where he remained until 1914 studying and teaching pathology. After six years at the University of California, Whipple in 1921 became a founding father and first dean of the new University of Rochester medical school, which he headed for 32 years...
After Delaney's score, Bob Watson's ensuing kickoff evoked memories of a Hoyt Wilhelm knuckleball, as the pigskin spun off his foot about fifteen yards down the left sideline, took one weird bounce, and landed in the arms of a startled Phil Jenkins at Harvard...
...critics: use of the mails would drop, Postal Service revenues would fall, and the entire system would be in a deeper hole than it is now with its $800 million annual deficit. The individual first-class user might save a few dollars a year. But, claims Coleman Hoyt, distribution manager of the Reader's Digest, the saving would be cancelled by increases for other classes of mail used by the same person. "In the long run," says Hoyt, "the people pay for everything...