The midland journal., 1946-10-04
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BASEBALL FOR JOSEF

this would be one sure way to Gre
ate spirit of good will and make
the Russians little less tense.
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This may be the best suggestion Of
postwar times. A world series be-
tween Moscow and Petrograd might
cure the crustiness. 1t might even
soften up Pravda. Certainly Mo
lOtov would not be the same diff
ficult guy If he had season in the
bleachers. And does anybody think
Gromyko would be the killj0y that
he is il he could get an afternoon
now and then at crucial series?
We are for baseball on the Volga.
1t would be OK. up to the time
when a home-run swatter got too
big public following or star
pitcher got his picture in the papers
above that Of Joe Stain.
OF course baseball In Russia
would present some difficulties.
Would the Soviets stand for any
home-run hitter being called
"king"? will the three strikes and
cut rule be subject to q veto? Will
the base on balls, being demo-
cratic institution, be ruled out as
capitalistic?
Isn't there a possibility that any
team that licked Moscow in series
would be liquidated?
Suppose Joe Stain likes Minsk
to cop pennant and the Pinsk club
takes it?
If Joe thinks a player is safe at
first and the decision is that he is
out by a mile can the umpire es-
cape being sent to the salt mines?
Suppose the Russian baseball
teams have bad season and Stain
wants some big hitters and fast rum
ners from American lend-lease?
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Could there be any hope Of peace
If Stain arranged to go to Teheran
for crucial conference with Larry
MacPhail and Leo DurOcher?
What? No Reason
For Nervousness?
"No good reason for the break in stock
nricoe nnd tho rurrouf rorpOnenoSe cOuyd
be found" Item.
1t couldn't be that reconversion is
still behind the eight ball, that there's
an ultimatum in every pot and two
border incidents in every garage,
that strikes are in flower again, that
the administration recently set
course for Newfoundland and wound
up in Bahama, and that meat, shirt
tails, peace and brotherly love are
to continue shorter, could it?
The uneasiness wouldn't have a
thing to do with the fact that Gro
myk0 is still talking that the
only industry without bOttlenecks is
the hOldup industry that the
victors in the global war trust one
another less than they did Hitler
that general snaf1 has reached a
new high in America and that there
are increasing signs that the Amer
lean public regards the Four Free
doms as ~ freedom of the daily
double; (O freedom to mob any de-
praved criminal for his autograph;
81 freedom to operate black mar
ket in choice steaks; az freedom to
dope out a newer and screwier pro-
gram with audience participation.
Nervousness? Uneasiness? A re-
turn of the jitters? Well, possibly
it has something to do with the fact
that the world seems on fire, brass
knuckles are becoming compulsory
equipment in diplomacy, peace in
Europe doesn't even look like good
show bet, labor and capital are still
demonstrating new wrestling grips,
you can't get a new auto except on
a radio quiz program, nine more
well-known Americans have be-
COAAlC uCWoRok'CA AsNo-
sia still has the veto power, a cou-
pie aged SO eloped the other day.
226 more strikes threatened east of
the Rockies and Fala is back in the
news!
Pettigrew the Penguin says:
"jimmy byrnes promised the ger
mans two car-mirage and chick
en- in every pOtsdam."
Add SMILES: She was as bejew-
eled as if she had just helped launch
ship.
Mrs. Ohra Dionne has giuen birth to q
baby boy. Too doctors and a trained
nurse Uere on hand. DR.. Dafoe's spirit
must be enjoying quite a hearty laugh.