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Born in 1909, in Sidney, Ill., "Whitey" Dahl learned to fly as a U.S. Army cadet, later dropped out of the Air Corps. and by 1937 was ready to launch his flamboyant, horsepower-opera career by marching off to the Spanish civil war with a $1,500-a-month contract to fly and fight for the Republican side. On a bombing mission over the Madrid front, he was shot down, captured and sentenced to death before a Franco firing squad...
Back in the U.S. in 1940, Whitey soon was in another jam, arrested for passing bad checks. He was freed next morning when the judge turned out to be a sympathetic fellow member of the Quiet Birdmen, an aviators' club...
...early in World War II to enlist in the Royal Canadian Air Force. He became a squadron leader (equals U.S. major) and married a Canadian girl, belatedly explaining that his marriage to wife Edith had never been exactly solemnized, from a legal point of view. Before the war ended, Whitey was in trouble again, charged with selling government pistols, compasses, lamps and radios on the black market while in command of a station in Brazil. He got off with no penalty but a discharge...
...America after the war until he landed a good spot with Swissair on the run from Geneva to Paris. That lasted until one night in 1953, when Dahl was seen leaving his plane with a heavy package-and $35,000 in gold bullion was missing from the baggage hold. Whitey was found guilty, sentenced to two years in prison, but was freed pending appeal...
Pitchers are Casey's biggest problem. His two surest starters, Whitey Ford and Tommy Byrne, are both lefthanders. And no one knows better than Casey that all season long only one southpaw, the Cardinals' Luis Arroyo, started and finished a game against Brooklyn-and he lost...