Word: waitkus
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Dates: during 1949-1949
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...Philadelphia Phillies wrangled with an insurance company over whether First Baseman Eddie Waitkus ought to get injury compensation for the bullet wound he got from a demented bobby-soxer last June. The ball club argued that Eddie was only doing "his proper duty in public relations" when he went to the girl's hotel room in the belief that she was from his home town and needed help...
Other local luminaries who will partake in the ceremonies are: Eddie Waitkus, Philadelphia Philly first baseman (out since May after being shot in a hotel room), Al Capp, author of "LIT Abner," actress Betty Field, and Mayor Michael J. Novilie...
...Cooperstown, N.Y., Baseball's Hall of Fame conscientiously wrote to Philadelphia Phillies First Baseman Eddie Waitkus for the .22 slug that an overenthusiastic girl fan fired into his lung in June...
...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...