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Last week, a few days after Paul Pettit graduated, the bids were opened in the movie man's offices on Los Angeles' Sunset Boulevard. The winning bid: a $100,000 offer from the Pittsburgh Pirates...
...years, major-league scouts drooled every time they saw big, tousle-haired Paul Pettit throw a baseball. Not since Fireball Bob Feller was an apple-cheeked Iowa schoolboy had they seen anything like Pettit. But by the laws of organized baseball it was taboo to discuss such down-to-earth matters as money with Pettit until his schooling was finished at Narbonne High in Lomita, Calif. While the scouts were counting the days until the 18-year-old pitcher graduated, they learned something that made them dry-mouthed and white-lipped...
...nimble-footed Hollywood movie producer, Frederick Stephani, had signed up Pitcher Pettit four months ago. For $85,000 (including $750 for honeymoon expenses if & when Pettit gets married), Producer Stephani got exclusive rights to his acting and athletic talents. Then Stephani, who knew how glad some big-league clubs would be to take over the baseball end of his contract, put Pettit on the block to the highest bidder...
There were loud cries on all sides. The New York Yankees, who thought they needed Pettit as much as anybody else did, bellowed that the Stephani operation was highly irregular, even though they had submitted a bid themselves. Commissioner "Happy" Chandler, who had a scout of his own in California to gather facts for him, promised to look into the matter. But at first blush it looked as though the Pirates had a clear title-provided they hadn't dickered directly with Pitcher Pettit before graduation...
...only thing everybody clearly agreed on was that Paul Pettit was "out of this world" as a pitching prospect. A southpaw, he stands 6 ft. 2 in. tall, weighs 205 Ibs., and throws a fast ball that "takes off." For four years Paul Pettit has completely befuddled schoolboy batters, once struck out 27 in a 12-inning game. In 1948, he performed the authentic Frank Merriwell stunt of pitching six no-hit, no-run games, . three of them in succession...