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...will any reader who spends a summer evening with Gerlach's despised dozen. The men profiled in this long-overdue tribute were not infallible, and they knew it. "The toughest call an umpire has to make is not the half swing," admits Veteran Bill Kinnamon. "The toughest call is throwing a guy out of the game after you blew the hell out of the play." But all the officials consider themselves honest; all believe that if they missed an occasional decision, they called every game well and truly. So they did, and collectively they and their colleagues have kept...
...blocks of Pine Street in the Negro neighborhood caught fire, apparently by arson. The white volunteer fire company failed to respond to the fire until it had practically burned out, leveling a school, a church, a motel and a tavern. When sobbing Negro women begged Police Chief Brice Kinnamon to send the firemen in, he snapped: "You people ought to have done something before this. You stood by and let a bunch of goddam hoodlums come in here...
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