Word: lew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...youngster in Nitro, W. Va. (whose 5,000 residents call it "Powdertown" from its origin as a World War I gunpowder producer), Burdette was a late starter in baseball. The local high school had no team, so Lew-or "Froggy" as the kids nicknamed him after his voice began to change-filled in his days holding a cue at the Idle Hour Pool Room or heaving rocks through windows. "One night," recalled an old chum in Nitro last week, "a gang of us were knocking out windows in the Nazarene Church. Lew was half a block behind us, standing...
...Lew never really found himself until he was sent to the Braves. Pennant-hungry Milwaukee brought out the mean-spirited competitor in him, and he delighted in the sight of an opposing batter sprawling to escape his head-high fast ball. The measure of his success is the list of angry complaints that have scampered across four years of sports pages. Some of his National League opponents insisted-and still do-that he uses the outlawed spitball. "He breaks every rule in the book,'' maintains Cincinnati Manager Birdie Tebbetts. "The umpires tell me it doesn't matter...
...Lew as a happy clown, a sometimes sophomoric cutup who delights in sticking his head out of the team bus and tying up traffic on the way to a game with his piercing imitation of a police whistle. His pretty wife Mary, a onetime Charleston, W. Va. telephone operator, cannot understand why everyone does not love him. Home from an afternoon of fidgeting in the ballpark, Lew is a fond father who likes to stretch out in the living room and turn the hi-fi to blasting-level for Dixieland or "grand ole opry" records. He amuses his children-Lewis...
...season, Lew settles his family in Sarasota, Fla.. where he owns a $20,000 home, fattens up on his favorite meals (ham and eggs for breakfast, fried chicken for dinner), fly-casts for trout on a lake he has stocked himself, and prepares for the days his curve stops breaking by building up a thriving real estate business. Crowed a business associate last week: "He's a wonderful guy. Three victories are going to have a big bearing on added sales...
...Lew Burdette is, according to one exuberant announcer, "Mr. Wisconsin;" and a few radio reports after the game bothered to mention the name of the losing Yankee pitcher, Don Larsen...