Word: midget
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...Louis Browns (1951-53) and the White Sox (1959-61), he annoyed fellow owners by introducing jugglers and tightrope walkers into the pre-game festivities and staging cow-milking contests for players. Though Veeck is perhaps best remembered as the man who sent a 3-ft. 7-in. midget to bat against the Detroit Tigers,* he also performed some praiseworthy services for the game. He broke the color barrier in the American League by hiring Outfielder Larry Doby in 1947, set attendance records (his 1948 season total of 2,620,627 is still an American League mark) and led both...
...walked on four straight balls. The league instantly outlawed midgets, prompting Veeck to ask if, at 5 ft. 6 in., Yankee Shortstop Phil Rizzuto classified as "a short ballplayer or a tall midget...
...reaciton last Tuesday night was to take the wrestlers at Boston Garden seriously. Watching a midget scamper around the ring and pretend to be frightened of another midget impressed me as being just about the most demeaning thing a man could do. Seeing someone sacrifice his human dignity and his manliness for a laugh isn't my idea of comedy...
...your childhood by negating it. You can feel proud of yourself that you're mature enough or sensitive enough so you don't find it amusing to see someone humiliate himself for a laugh. Maybe you can feel proud that you get indignant when others clap gleefully for two midget wrestlers who are making fools of themselves for money. But somehow it's kind of a drag not to be able to laugh...
Durno's hockey career in the nets started when he was eight. After six years in the Pee Wee, Bantam and Midget leagues, Bruce joined the Stanford Junior B Bruins, a farm team owned by the Boston Bruins. He went on to play for a Junior A team also in the Bruins farm system. In Junior A hockey Bruce was starting goalie against the likes of Derek Sanderson, Tom Webster, and Bobby Orr--all of whom are now playing for the Bruins...