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Pitcher Joe Hatten, a 28-year-old southpaw, looks like the nearest thing to a freshman Dizzy Dean. He has a deadly sidearm motion that should baffle right-handed hitters, has a curve ball that can turn a corner. The Dodgers thought enough of him before he entered the Navy to give up a seasoned pitcher, Van Lingle Mungo, in a straight trade. Like most southpaws, Hatten is regarded with some suspicion as a wild man. Already some tall stories are being told about him. Sample: once when his team was just one run ahead at Minneapolis, he deliberately walked...
Somebody asked him what a ham-&-egg artist is. The President illustrated it with a southpaw pitch, as if throwing something at an imaginary canvas. Their paintings, he said, look as if they stood off and threw...
Later he teamed with Idaho's Senator Glen Taylor against Maryland's Millard Tydings and Arkansas' J. William Fulbright at pitching horseshoes. The Missouri southpaw's side lost, 20-to-21. A seaplane brought official papers for the President. He sat under a poplar tree, read them, signed some. Then he went inside. There was a poker game in full blast and three tables of continuous bridge...
...Kazoo" finals it came in handy against Southpaw Bernard ("Tut") Bartzen, runner-up to Falkenburg last year. Tut learned to play the game by going up against a bangboard daily in the little Texas town of San Angelo, where competition was nonexistent, so he was used to seeing his best efforts returned. Flam's disconcerting returns earned him the title...
...Southpaw Slugger Ott says he never stopped to figure out what makes him a great hitter. He thinks maybe it's timing or coordination. There is no mystery about the times when Ott strikes out, pops up or dribbles to an infielder; generally it means that the pitcher has outguessed him, and sneaked in a fast ball when Mel was set for a curve or vice versa...