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...UNIVERSAL BASEBALL ASSOCIATION, INC., J. HENRY WAUGH, PROP, by Robert Coover. 242 pages. Random House...
Triple Ones. The main character-in fact the only major character-is a rootless, helpless, 56-year-old accountant named J. Henry Waugh. Alone in his apartment, he spends all his nights and weekends playing an intricate baseball game of his own invention. Eight imaginary teams of the Universal Baseball Association battle for the pennant; individual players spring to life as three dice and a collection of elaborately detailed charts decide their fate. They reach glory, enjoy fame, grow old, lose their skills, retire to sell insurance and finally die as the dice decree. Waugh records the statistics...
Soon tragedy shatters Waugh's invented cosmos. He throws triple ones three times in a row, and the "Extraordinary Occurrences Chart" demands that the next batter shall die. But the next man up is Damon Rutherford, most brilliant rookie pitcher in the history of the association. Waugh loves Damon like a son, but the necessary laws that hold the cosmos together cannot be broken. Damon Rutherford dies...
...charge that asphalt to patch Alabama roads costs the state $2,000,000 a year more than it ought to, with the implication that some of this money goes into Wallace campaign coffers. Claiming that it was unable to sell any of its asphalt to the state, the Waugh Asphalt Co. sued Alabama Finance Director Seymore Trammell, who manages Wallace's presidential campaign as well as state purchasing, along with 24 firms and state-appointed "sales agents." It charged them with rigging prices, promoting monopoly and breaking state and federal laws...
...Waugh Co. said that its bids were consistently the lowest-averaging 20% below successful bids in counties where Waugh did not compete-yet it never got a state contract. The defendant companies are studded with Wallace cronies. American Materials & Supply Co., the state's largest supplier last year, has a secretary-treasurer who was a Wallace campaign aide. His driver and errand boy in the 1962 campaign is now an officer of the Wire-grass Construction Co., also named in the suit. The case will probably come to trial in the fall, when it could prove embarrassing to Wallace...