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...signed to a story which seemed to have neither long ears nor a mule's kick. It was the Second International Gerontological Congress, a group which is concerned with the troubles of the aging. He found his story, however, by attending a session when the venerable baseball pitcher, Satchel Paige, turned up. Correspondent Woods's report: "For two solid hours, Ole Satch held the scientists spellbound with inside tips on how he maintained his terrifying 'nuthin' ball' despite his advanced years. Samples of his anti-old age prescriptions: don't fill up on chicken...
LeBlanc promptly called off the conference, and called in reporters. "Me, I'm running for governor and I'm not stepping down," he said. Then he kicked aside his bedroom slippers and picked up a black satchel. He clumped the contents on the bed, big bundles of currency in $50, $100 and $1,000 bills. There, he said, was his $250,000. "And that's not all," he beamed, "I've got $100,000 in my wallet...
...Second International Gerontological Congress, meeting in St. Louis, had an impromptu session with ancient (somewhere between 43 and 51) Pitcher Satchel Paige, brought back from the Negro American league this season to throw his "nuthin' ball" for the St. Louis Browns. How did he keep in shape? To an impressed audience Satchel explained that he started early by avoiding beer, whisky, gin, tea, coffee, chicken livers and lamb. If you smoke, he added, don't inhale. "I just blows it out my nose." Playing ball in the summer, hunting every day in winter, also help...
Veeck's first stunt to sell tickets for the Browns' games was. 'Drink on the House" day; fans turned out to guzzle 6,041 soft drinks and 7.596 bottles of beer. The next Veeck inspiration was a team band: Pitchers Al Widmar on bull fiddle and Satchel Paige on drums, Coach Ed Redys on accordion, in a concert at home plate...
...Bill Veeck knows that free beer is no substitute for good baseball. He plans to shake up the club, "from manager to batboy," talks of building up his pitching staff (he has only one first-string pitcher, Ned Garver) by dusting off famed old (fiftyish) Relief Pitcher Satchel Paige ("Satch plays better now that he's had all his teeth pulled") and buying a Japanese pitcher now playing in Honolulu ("If a ballplayer can help this club I'll take him if he's blue with pink spots"). He will sift the minor leagues for power hitters...