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Taciturn Don Mueller, always a power at the plate, inched up steadily on Mays and Snider all summer, pushed his total of base hits past the 200 mark-the first Giant to turn the trick since Jo-Jo Moore in 1936. A quiet, conscientious competitor, Mueller got so heated up by his team's pennant fight that he managed to set a record of sorts of his own: last month, for the first time in eleven years of organized baseball, he yammered at an umpire loudly enough to get himself tossed out of a game...
...robbers, who turned out to be anything but professional. They were unemployed hoodlums, of the variety who are called "sharpies" and who wear a uniform-peg-top pants, sharply pointed shoes, Windsor-knot ties, tight blue topcoats. The ringleader was Joseph ("The Blimp") Paladino, 24. His accomplices: Joseph ("Jo-Jo") Guidice, 20, and Carmine ("Zoc") Zoccolillo, 21, also known as "Toothy" because he likes to wiggle his pivoted front teeth. The plan was to rob the apartment on the first visit, but Guidice was scared of the butler. "I froze," he explained with the air of a peasant...
...step right up, ladeez and gentlemen, for the greatest show on earth. See the thin man, the fat lady, the India rubber man, Jo-Jo the dog-faced boy, and Gargantua, who, when last week was confronted by three Harvard men said, "I prefer peanuts...
...players were given loosening up work and light throwing and then subjected to a short batting drill with the pitchers tossing them, in at half speed. Regular Varsity team men from last year reporting for the first team were outfielders Bob Gannett, Rud Hoye, and Jo-Jo Soltz, and infielder Dick Grondahl. Last year's Freshman regulars include Jim Tully, Fred Keyes, and Charlie Davis...
With a nucleus of players from last year including Tom Healy and Slim Curtiss as pitchers, Bob Fulton, catcher, Lupe Lupien, Captain Art Johns, and Dick Grondahl, infielders, and Jo-Jo Soltz, Bob Gannett, and Rud Hoye, outfielders, the former Ohio Stater should be able to build a team which will more than hold its own in college circles...