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...year-old midget was used to pinch hit and drew a walk. What was his name, height, and the number on his uniform...
...Days, and Name's the Same Days (everyone with the same name as a member of the team gets in for free). He was the first to install an explosive Scoreboard, stage milking contests and have mock invasions from outer space. His most memorable stunt was sending a midget to pinch hit for St. Louis wearing the number1/8 (he walked on four pitches). Veeck's credo: "We are in the entertainment business. The important thing is the relationship between the fan and the game...
Pound for pound, of course, the midget wrestlers are the strongest and most proficient in the business. It would be a fruitless intellectual exercise to speculate about which of these spunky little fellows could outdistance a normal human in a physical competition. Sky Lo Lo, Little Brutus, The Jamaican Kid, and a dozen others are arm wrestling champs in their own home districts. Others, less proficient in their sport, have had to humble themselves in the off-season by working on circus side shows, collecting disability insurance (achondroplasm, legally, is a disability), or working in the kind of factories whose...
...reader vaguely recalls a lovely term for a mirage-something Italianate. He checks Bernstein under "mirage, especially as observed in the Strait of Messina" and finds fata morgana. "Midget or dwarf leads to homunculus. "Ecstasy of a religious nature" brings forth theopathy. "Misstroke or misplay" discovers foozle...
President Ford's refusal to see Solzhenitsyn [July 21] is the refusal of a midget to see a giant for a very obvious reason. He would have to look...