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...certainly should be. The White Sox are proposing to play a lefthanded fielder at third base. Only a few loitering pitchers have tried it since Washington First Baseman Joe Kuhel attempted one game in 1936, and the modern record for swiveling 90° pivots must have been set by Wee Willie Keeler in 44 games over six seasons at the turn of the century. Manager Tony La Russa's idea is to excuse regular Third Baseman Vance Law from facing the ace righthanders and hope the lefthanded bat of former Gold Glove First Baseman Mike Squires is not offset...
...last week Bobby Kuhel went once again to the dresser drawer to fetch the pistol, but this time neither his father nor anyone else knew anything about it, and Bobby himself was not sure of what he was going to do with it. Downstairs, Bobby's father and mother were staring at another pistol, held by a thug who called himself Wally...
...while, Bobby had listened in terror as Wally explained his plan. He was going to take all three of them to the bank, said the bandit, and hold the boy and Mrs. Kuhel hostage while the father fetched out $75,000 in greenbacks. As his father, stalling for time, pointed out flaws in the arrangement, Bobby had asked the thug if he might go to the bathroom. Too busy arguing with the father to care about the boy, Wally waved him away. That was when Bobby got the gun. When Bobby came downstairs a moment later, Wally marched all three...
Ordered to stop about 500 yards from the bank, John Kuhel saw a jeepload of U.S. military police rounding the corner, and decided on a desperate chance. He raced his motor, pulled the wheel hard left and let out the clutch, hoping to knock Wally off his seat. Recovering his balance almost instantly, Wally instead aimed his gun at Kuhel's head. Two pistol shots rang out. The MPs swarmed about the Kuhel car. Instead of a dead banker, they found a dead gangster-and, in the back seat of the car, a small boy holding in his hand...
Next day at school, the boy's teacher asked him if he cared to tell the class about "the accident you had." Said Bobby Kuhel shyly: "I didn't have an accident...