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...ordered ancient spruce trees hacked down at many street corners to improve vision and was fiercely attacked by ladies of the city's garden clubs. He explained: Ladies, when we trimmed the petticoats ott those old spruces, we saw some of the funniest limbs in all Denver. Modesty alone dictates that we chop them down. . . " The ladies were not amused...
...Well," he said, "there was an item in the paper last week announcing that Mel Ott was retiring from baseball permanently to go back into the contracting business, the place where he was before old John McGraw brought him before the eye of the people...
...special seats reserved for the favored, were the notables, the affluent and the politicians-the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover, ex-President Herbert Hoover, Douglas MacArthur, Margaret Truman and Heavyweight Champion Joe Walcott. Among them sat the aging stars of past series-Rogers Hornsby, Carl Hubbell, Mel Ott, Frankie Frisch-a shadowy, wistful, watching pantheon...
...OTT, onetime outfielder for the New York Giants, who hit more homers (511) than anybody else in National League history...
...home run hitters, Mel Ott and Jimmy Foxx, yesterday became the 59th and 60th players elected to baseball's Hall of Fame. Both will have their name inscribed in the Cooperstown, New York, Baseball Museum...