Word: steinhagen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eddie Waitkus, Philadelphia first-baseman, left Chicago's Billings Hospital to go back to the Quaker City with noi trace of bitterness toward Bobby-Soxer Ruth Steinhagen, who, in an excess of girlish adoration, put a .22-caliber slug through his right lung last June 14. "I only saw her once after she shot me," said Eddie, "that was in a Chicago court where they sent her to the booby-hatch. It's just an unfortunate thing...
...first time Ruth Steinhagen looked upon Eddie ("Cowboy") Waitkus with her large, glassy blue eyes, her brain bubbled with a strange, painful excitement.. That was out at Chicago's Wrigley Field near the end of the 1946 season when Eddie was playing first for the Cubs. Ruth fell hard. She stopped loving Movie Actor Alan Ladd, wrote off a passing outfielder and decided to do something big some day about Eddie, namely, kill...
...time she was 19, Ruth Steinhagen, in her craving for excitement, had left a whole generation of mere bobby-soxers far behind. She found life inexpressibly boring. She was a $37.50-a-week insurance-company typist who wanted to be a model, but thought she was too "nervous." Besides, while she was almost six feet tall, she was skinny, and her dark, curling hair framed only a flat face with a big nose...
...near to him outside the ballpark and fainted. In her diary she wrote: "Phils are losing. I bet it's none of Eddie's fault," and on the same page, "I'll be glad when you're dead, you rascal you." Papa Steinhagen, a no-nonsense die-setter and father of another, less emotional daughter, got fed up with all the foolishness. Ruth's folks sent her to a psychiatrist but she went only once, and it didn't do any good. Indignant at Papa's ways, Ruth flounced out of the family...