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Master Gunnery Sergeant Lou Diamond is not 167 years old, but the oldest generals cannot remember when the Marines' famed mortar expert was not somewhere around. Lou Diamond's age is a secret between him and his service-record book, but his friends remember his pitching a one-hit game for the Quantico Marines many years ago, when he must have been at least 50. He rested on that feat, never pitched again...
...double steal for the winning tally gave the Tigers their 6-5 win the day before as Captain Tom Healey pitched one-hit ball for six innings only to lose out when the Orange and Black counted twice in each of the last three innings. A walk, an error, and a scratch hit filled the sacks in the last frame and set the stage for the double steal on which Warner Allen came home with the winning...
...years went by and Pianist Levant showed no signs of becoming another Paderewski, he drifted off to Hollywood. As a friend of the late George Gershwin, he became successively a: 1) cinemactor, 2) assistant to a producer of Westerns, 3) composer of cinema scores, 4) one-hit tunesmith (Lady Play Your Mandolin), 5) one-piece piano virtuoso (the famed Gershwin-Grofé Rhapsody in Blue), and an intermittent pupil of famed Arnold Schönberg, who taught him how to write complicated high-brow music. When, nine years later, he returned to Manhattan to conduct and arrange music for shows...
Pennsylvania's Caputo was in fine form as he administered a neat coat of whitewash to the hapless Lions and tied the one-hit pitching performances record established earlier this spring by Tom Healey. Healey's masterpiece was also chalked up against those same Lions...
Before his team took the field last week for two baseball games in Brooklyn Pitcher Jerome Herman ("Dizzy") Dean of the St. Louis Cardinals remarked: "They will be playing against one-hit Dean and no-hit Dean." In the first game (St. Louis, 13-to-0) Dizzy Dean missed his prophecy. Brooklyn got three hits. In the second (St. Louis, 3-to-0), his younger brother Paul Dean pitched the first no-hit game in the National League since 1929. Only one Brooklyn batter reached first base, on balls in the first inning...