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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Backstop Charlie Walsh literally cleaned up in the cleanup spot, with four hits in five at bats, including a double and a triple. Webb, who with Walsh was the only player allowed to stay in the massacre all the way, got three hits in five tries...
Matson has been a regular player and consistent low scorer on the varsity this year...
This newest fad is a riproaring, high-scoring game of the rummy family. It combines the melding features of pinochle, the building principle of gin and some of the partnership elements of bridge. What a Canasta player needs most is endurance...
...game uses a double deck with four jokers-108 cards. The jokers and all deuces are wild. Red treys are bonus cards, worth 100 extra points. Black treys, by contrast, are purely defensive cards, and can be melded only when the player goes out at the end of a game. In the scoring, a canasta (literally, basket) is a seven-card meld, and if a player makes it the hard way (using no wild cards), the bonus is 500 points. Scoring can run into the thousands in a single hand; 5,000 points is game. In most forms of rummy...
Died. Joseph Paul DiMaggio Sr., 77, retired Italian immigrant fisherman who became baseball's most famous father (sons: Joe of the Yankees, Dominic of the Red Sox, and onetime Major-Leaguer Vincent, now player-manager of the Class D Pittsburg, Calif. Diamonds); of a heart ailment; in San Francisco...