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...article appeared in the Feb. 25 Sport section about the arrival in this country of Hannie Urbanus, the first European baseball player ever to come to this country to be trained here . . . We, who have organized this idea [inviting Hannie to the U.S. for a month's training with the New York Giants], which we know will snowball as time goes on, are particularly impressed with the right tone of the article. In my 20 years' career as a newspaperman I have seldom seen a better job of telling an interesting sports story...
...Netherlands, sport fans know Johannes Hendrikus Urbanus as well as Americans know Urbanus' hero, Bob Feller. Like Feller, 24-year-old Urbanus is a pitcher. He plays on Amsterdam's Op Volharding Volgt Overwinning (Perseverance Leads to Victory) team. The O.V.V.O. nine, behind Urbanus' consistent pitching, has won three straight Dutch championships. Last week "Hannie" was the envy of some 5,000 Dutch Honkbal players. At the invitation of the Knickerbocker, a Dutch-American magazine, Hannie flew to the U.S. to spend a month of spring training with the New York Giants, National League champions...