Evening star., 1951-03-18
Hob Wolff
REPORTS ON SPORTS
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ORLANDO FLA-Here's the story of batboy, ball
player and actor 1t started many years ago when the
oatooy was tending bats for the York Yankees and
the oapayer bright National sence play
ing with the Washington Senator's
The batboy tremendously impressed with the fine
play ana the hne character of the Washington player So
impressed that the years by and he left the batbov
JOB for another occupation he still remembered his former
idol ~
That memory continued to bright as the former
oatooy went on to fame and fortune himself as movie
star in Hollywood
And then one day the was helping to cast
one OF his pictures he scanning the list of
OF candidates for important One name stood out on
e S 1or tnls candidate had the name as the
oallpayer whom the batboy once worshipped
This was the candidate was singled out for the role
and later investigation showed that having the same last
name was more than coincidence the aspiring actor and
the baIlplayer were brothers.
IL was hard to say who the thrilled the movie
star who had discovered the brother of his favore ball.
prayer OF 1ne young actor who had landed his big
And that's the story baboy the baplayer and the
actor except for one last postscript.
That batboy who went on to- fame as a movie star Is
George Raft and the young he befriended is Frank
Milan Frank has gone success in roles on the stage
as well as the screen, his recent triumph coming
this past Friday night the Pulitzer Prize Playhouse
A
great outheder during his active playing days. been
coach of the Washington Senators for rnany wears His
name is Clyde Milan,
LINE DRIVES
Mats rookie catcher Frank sacka holds the distinction
OF hitting three consecutive home runs in game while
playing in the minors Those the only three runs
his team scored, as they lost the ball game to g.
George Washington University will be getting a good
baseball and basketball player in Jerry Paparea
His dad is American League umpire Joe Paparella
Bobo NewSom picks Cleveland to win the pennant this
arguing that the Indians have the best pitching
staff in the majors
There changes in basebals playing rules for the
coming season. There decisions however
affecting turning lights playofs so forth The
one-second pause balk rule remains the though
prompting Newsom to relate how he pitched a game for
Chattanooga last with alarm tied around
his neck Bobo paused long enough for the alarm to 60
off, then pitched
The Senators will have two ironmen in the shortston
department. Sam Dente didn't game all last season
while understudy Gene Verbe performing similar
feat with Atlanta of the Southern Association.
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