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...pitching in high school, quickly caught the strike-out bug. Says Dalkowski: "I didn't win, but when I got the ball over the plate, it was fun to watch them swing." Signed by the Baltimore Orioles after graduation in 1957, Steve joined a rookie farm club in Kingsport, Tenn. "I remember my record," he recalls, "because it was so even: 121 strike-outs and 129 walks." But at Kingsport, Dalkowski earned a trip to the Orioles' spring training camp with an incredible performance: 24 strike-outs in a single game, despite the fact that he failed...
...Andover, Mass. 30 *Halaby, Samuel A., Jr. '60 21 5:10 190 Rochester, N.Y. 25 Halaby, Theodore '62 19 5:10 185 Rochester, N.Y. 24 *Ravenel, Charles D. '61 21 5:9 160 Charleston, S.C. 23 Adams, Myron J., Jr. '62 19 6:0 170 Kingsport, Tenn. 22 Ullyot, James R. '62 19 6:1 185 St. Paul, Minn. 21 Boone, Thomas H. '62 19 5:10 177 Missoula, Mont. 20 Watts, H. Grady, Jr. '62 19 5:8 150 Manhasset, N.Y. 15 Hunter, Robert L., Jr. '61 20 5:11 185 Chicago, Ill. 14 Repsher, Lawrence...
...Andover, Mass. 30 *Halaby, Samuel A., Jr. '60 21 5:10 190 Rochester, N. Y. 25 Halaby, Theodore '62 19 5:10 185 Rochester, N. Y. 24 *Ravenel, Charles D. '61 21 5:9 160 Charleston, S. C. 23 Adams, Myron J., Jr. '62 19 6:0 170 Kingsport, Tenn. 22 Ullyot, James R. '62 19 6:1 185 St. Paul, Minn. 21 Boone, Thomas H. '62 19 5:10 177 Missoula, Mont. 20 Watts, H. Grady, Jr. '62 19 5:8 150 Manhasset, N. Y. 15 Hunter, Robert L., Jr. '61 20 5:11 185 Chicago, Ill. 14 Repsher...
...Sailing, 112, one of the two surviving veterans of the Civil War, sometime railroader, farmer, logger, horse trader and moonshiner, who served three years as a Confederate private, mainly digging saltpeter for gunpowder in the hills near his lifelong home in Slant, Va.; of pneumonia; at a clinic in Kingsport, Tenn. Mountaineer Sailing, a rocking-chair pacifist ("Wars are all part of some scheme"), outlived the last Union soldier-Albert Woolson, who died in Duluth, Aug. 2, 1956-but not the Confederacy's Walter W. ("Old Reb") Williams, who lives in Houston and is the Civil...
Family Outing. In Kingsport, Tenn., when cops refused to arrest Edgar Spears because, in his own house, he was not a "public drunk," they carried him off after his two sons dragged him to the street...