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Ernest had a way of attracting further tests. In the early Paris days, his infant son, Bumby (John Hemingway, first child by first wife, Hadley Richardson), cut the pupil of Daddy's right eye with his fingernail. Baker recounts how Hemingway broke a toe on a gate, tore his stomach on a boat cleat, ripped open his hand on a punching bag, and shot himself in both legs while trying to land a shark. He was particularly prone to head injury: four major concussions in one two-year stretch...
...spring training last year, but his performance only confirmed the medical diagnosis. In batting practice he missed pitches by a full foot. In exhibition games he struck out constantly. Finally, after fanning three times against the Washington Senators, he stormed into the clubhouse and, as one observer recalled, "nearly tore the place apart...
Just about everybody did. In a game where fractured ribs and split noses are merely workaday inconveniences, Orr has compiled an impressive medical record. In a 1967 exhibition game he tore the ligaments in his left knee. He recovered in time for the season's opener only to have his right shoulder smashed out of its socket. The cartilage in the same knee was ripped two months later; he has since undergone two knee operations, and was sidelined for nine games this season. "People tell me I'm brittle," he says, "but I can't afford...
...these are not our shock troops of the '30s-those who, yelling like demons, tore the Easter cakes from the believers' hands-oh no! These are moved by intellectual curiosity, as you might say. There is no more ice hockey on TV, and the football season hasn't yet begun-they're bored, that's why they crowd around the candlestand to buy candles, pushing Christians aside like sacks of straw and swearing at what they call "church businessmen...
Instant Hero. The end was a long and painful time coming. The problems really began during his first year in the major leagues; while chasing a fly ball in the second game of the 1951 World Series, he slipped and tore the ligaments in his right knee. This was the first of a plague of injuries that slowly but decisively broke him down. But Mickey did not break easy. Bull-necked and broad-backed, he leaned his 195 Ibs. into high, hard fastballs and hit drives that were things of wonder. At first, when he was a rookie training...