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In honor of spring training, come along with Tidbits as we remember some unforgettable moments brought to you by memorable pitchers.

• In the 1940s, Bobo Newsom was batting for the Yankees against White Sox pitcher Joe Haynes. He swung and nicked the ball, which rolled back to the pitcher. Realizing it was useless to even try to run to first base, Bobo headed back to the dugout. But instead of throwing to first, Haynes just stood and watched Bobo walk away. When the crowd began to laugh, Bobo turned and saw the pitcher still had the ball. So he began to stroll towards first base. So did Haynes. He walked a little faster. Haynes did too. Suddenly he broke into a sprint.

Haynes began to run, finally lobbing the ball to first base seconds ahead of Bobo.

• In 1934, Dodger manager Casey Stengel had pitcher Walter Beck replaced in the game. In a temper, Beck threw the ball and it hit the rightfield wall. The Dodger rightfielder had been “resting his eyes” while recovering from a hangover. He heard the ball hit the wall, scooped it up, threw it to second, and then discovered that no one had hit it.

• Luke Appling went to bat for the White Sox in a game against the Tigers in the 1930s. He hit 14 consecutive foul balls. On the 15th pitch, the dis gusted pitcher threw his glove instead of the ball.

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• Joe Engel, pitching in Washington, did not do a very good job. The question was not whether his pitches would go over the plate but whether they would stay in the ballpark. Manager Clark Griffith called him to his office one day and informed him he was being sent to Minneapolis. “Who am I being traded for?” Engel asked.

“No one,” replied Griffith. “It’s an even trade!”

• In 1918, Otis Crandall was pitching for Los Angeles against Salt Lake City. He had a perfect no-hitter going. There were two out in the ninth inning and not a single man had reached base. Then his brother Karl came to bat for Salt Lake. He made a base hit — the only known instance where a no-hitter was broken by the pitcher’s brother.

• Bob Fothergill was a big man. He was a good hitter, but he was sensitive about his weight.

As Leo Durocher got ready to pitch against him, he called out, “Stop the game!” and approached the umpire. When the ump asked what was wrong, Durocher replied, “Don’t you know the rules?” he asked, pointing at Fothergill. “BOTH those guys can’t bat at the same time!” Fothergill was so angry he couldn’t bat well and struck out.

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• In 1939, Bob Feller was the best known pitcher in the country, playing for Cleveland. On Mother’s Day, he brought his mother from her Iowa farm to Chicago so she could see him play. A Chicago White Sox batter slugged a foul ball into the stands — where it hit Feller’s mother, knocking her unconscious.

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• In the early 1900s, Rube Waddell was such a great pitcher that all batters feared him. One day the pitcher on the opposing team got a great idea: if he could tire Waddell out before the game, his pitching would be off. So he challenged Waddell to a pitching contest. Whichever one of them could throw the farthest would win $5. They both showed up before the game and threw the ball as far as they could. Waddell’s throw went farthest. The opposing pitcher challenged him to throw that far again. He did. In fact, he threw the ball that far around 50 times. Convinced that Waddell’s arm would be worn out, the rival pitcher handed over the $5. That afternoon, Waddell struck out 14 batters and his team won handily. As he was walking to the clubhouse, he called out to the other pitcher, “Hey, thanks for the workout this morning. That was swell practice!”

• Texas University was up against the Yankees in an exhibition game when Lou Gehrig came up to bat. There were two runners on base and it was three and two for Gehrig. The catcher signaled the pitcher, the pitcher nodded — then threw a straight ball right to home plate. Gehrig sent it clear out of the park. The catcher marched up the pitcher, ranting at him for not paying attention to the signals. “Why did you throw him such a nice pitch?” he yelled. The pitcher was not sorry. “I got to thinking: I’ll never pitch a Big League game and maybe I’ll never get to see a game at the Yankee Stadium, and I sure did want to see Gehrig bust just one!”

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JACKIE MITCHELL Jackie Mitchell was born in Tennessee in 1913.

Her neighbor, Dazzy Vance, was a pitcher in the minor leagues. Though Jackie was only five, Dazzy taught her basic pitching techniques, and she quickly caught on. Dazzy told her she could become a great ball player. Jackie grew up believing him.

• At 16, Jackie played for a women’s team in Chattanooga. At 17, she attended a baseball school in Atlanta, where she was noticed by the owner of the Chattanooga Lookouts, a minor league team. He offered her a contract to play for the 1931 season. The newspapers ran stories about the first woman ever to play in the minor leagues. (However, in 1898, Lizzie Arlington played a single game for Reading, PA, technically making Jackie the second woman in minor league history.)

• Meanwhile, the New York Yankees had finished spring training in Florida and were on their way to New York. They stopped in Chattanooga to play the Lookouts in an exhibition game.

• The game began before a crowd of 4,000. Reporters, wire services, and a newsreel camera were on hand. The Lookouts’ manager sent Clyde Barfoot out to pitch the first inning. The Yankees’ lead-off batter slugged a double, and their next hitter smacked a single, allowing a run. The manager pulled Barfoot out and sent rookie southpaw Jackie to the mound. The next hitter up at bat was the legendary Babe Ruth.

• Jackie’s first pitch was a ball, but the next three pitches were strikes, with Babe taking a useless swing at the first two, and the third dropping across the plate for a strike. Jackie Mitchell struck Babe Ruth out. The crowd went wild!

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• Those who study such things say it takes three apples to make one glass of apple cider.

• You might be surprised to learn that John Denver -- best known for singing “Take Me Home, Country Roads,” an ode to West Virginia -- was not actually from the Mountain State. He didn’t write the song, either. Interestingly, the two people who did write the song, Bill Danoff and Taffy Nivert, had never been there at the time that they wrote it. They were on their way to Maryland when Danoff started writing a tune about the lovely countryside they were driving through.

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by George Smathers, a sitting congressman. Taking unfair advantage of the lack of education in some parts of the state, Smathers sent campaign materials to rural areas accusing Pepper of, among other things, having a brother who was a “practicing Homosapien” and a sister who was a “thespian.” The charge against Pepper himself was that he had “matriculated” with young women. In a victory for sleazy politics, Smathers did, in fact, win the primary.

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JACKIE MITCHELL (continued): • But there was still work to be done, for the next batter up was Lou Gehrig. She struck him out on three pitches. Jackie Mitchell had fanned the “Sultan of Swat” and the “Iron Horse” backto-back. The crowd rose to its feet in a lengthy standing ovation.

• Jackie pitched to one more batter, allowing a walk, before the manager pulled her out and sent Barfoot in. The Yankees won 14 – 4.

• The news spread across the country. Fan mail poured in. One envelope had no address aside from the words “The Girl Who Struck Out Babe Ruth.”

• A few days later, the baseball commissioner voided her contract, declaring that women were unfit to play baseball because it was “too strenuous.” In 1952, Major League Baseball formally banned women from contracts, a ban that lasted until 1992.

• Crushed, Jackie began pitching in exhibition games. At 19, she signed with the House of David, a men’s team famous for their long hair and beards. She traveled with them until 1937, but eventually got tired of the sideshow aspects of her career, such as being asked to wear a fake beard, or playing an inning while riding a donkey.

• She retired at 23, but played with local teams.

She refused to come out of retirement when the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League formed in 1943.

• In 1982, she was invited to throw out the ceremonial first pitch for the Chattanooga Lookouts on their season opening day. She died in 1987, and was buried in Chattanooga.

• Her mentor, Dazzy Vance, went on to pitch major league for Brooklyn, and was the only pitcher to lead the National League in strikeouts for seven consecutive seasons. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1955 and died in 1961.

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• On April 13, 1939, the heavy cruiser USS Astoria arrives in Japan under the command of Capt.

Richmond Turner in an attempt to photograph the Japanese battleships Yamato and Musash in a pre-war reconnaissance. The Astoria was sunk during Operation Watchtower in the Solomon Islands in August 1942.

• Herman Schaefer once hit a homer out of the park. He slid into first, slid into second, slid into third, and slid home.

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• On April 8, 1916, at the Boulevard Race in Corona, Calif., an early racing car careens into a crowd of spectators, killing the driver and two others. The fatal accident helped encourage organizers to begin holding races on specially built tracks instead of regular streets.

The only man to be elected to four terms as president of the United States, Roosevelt is remembered for his New Deal social policies and his leadership during wartime.

• On April 10, 1953, the horror film “The House of Wax,” starring Vincent Price, opens at New York’s Paramount Theater. It was the first feature from a major motionpicture studio to be shot using the three-dimensional, or stereoscopic, film process, and one of the first horror films to be shot in color.

• On April 9, 1962, President John F. Kennedy throws out the ceremonial first pitch in Washington D.C.’s new stadium. He continued a longstanding tradition that began in 1910 when President William H. Taft threw out Major League Baseball’s first opening-day pitch in Washington D.C.’s old Griffith Stadium.

• On April 11, 1970, Apollo 13, the third lunar landing mission, is successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla. After an oxygen tank exploded on the evening of April 13, however, the new mission objective became to get the Apollo 13 crew home alive.

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• On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Confederate sympathizer, fatally shoots President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C. The attack came only five days after Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered his army at Appomattox Court House in Virginia.

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• Herman Schaefer, playing for Washington in 1910, was on first and a teammate was on third. Schaefer stole second, hoping the catcher would try to throw him out, giving the teammate on third a chance to go for home. But the catcher didn’t make the throw. So Schaefer stole first base back. The rule book revealed no rule against stealing bases backwards. When play resumed, Schaefer stole second again.

The catcher threw (too late) and the teammate on third scored. Later the rules were amended and stealing backwards became an automatic out.

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UNUSUAL PLAYS (continued): • In Fenway Park, rules declare that if a batted DEERE. JOHN ball hits one of theDEERE. pigeons(continued): who roost in the the ball is declared dead.

•stadium, It was while living in Illinois that John notheDave problems that farmers when • Inticed 1984, Kingman went tofaced bat for the attempting to till soil.

Because the area had Oakland Athletics against the Minnesota formerly been woodland, the soil was rich Twins.

Kingman hit a fly ball that penetrated with hummus, which clumped and clung to the protective netting of the Metrodome ceilthe blades of the plows farmers were accusing 180 feet up. It never fell. Umpires called tomed to using. While repairing a broken cirit cular a ground rule double. When the ball was resaw, Deere stumbled upon an idea. He trieved by the it was sent to the employed hisgroundskeeper, smith skills to fashion the steel Baseball Hallthe of shape Fame.of a plow. He affixed blade into • Intwo 1920, the Cleveland Indians werethe up device against wooden spokes, then hitched to a horse. plowed heavy Bill Illinois soil Brooklyn in Itthe WorldtheSeries.

Wamblike awas charm.

In fact,field a farmer happened sganss in center for thewho Indians when be observing theone test out. run immediately hetocaught a fly for The force ofput the in an order for his own John Deere plow. running jump carried him to second base, he order, taggedDeere out the runner •where In short gavesecond up his base blacksmith who had been heading for third.

Then got shop and focused on making plows.heThe another easy out steadily by tagging firstmany baseemruncompany grew and the added ner heading for late second.

It John was an unassisted ployees.

In the 1840s, relocated the triple play.

The crowd was silent while they entire operation to Moline, Illinois. Ashamed tried to figure out what had happened and how of his own lack of education, John sent his children the were. state’sWhen finest realization schools. One many outsto there setof in, his proudest days occurred when son Charles fans went wild. earned the equivalent of an MBA Bell’s • Mike Grady, third baseman for thefrom New York Commercial College in Chicago.

Giants, holds the distinction of making the •most Witherrors his soninCharles managing the company, one play.

In 1895, he missed found a John ground balltime and to thepursue batter philanthropic reached first.inHe terests.

He co-founded both the First Nationoverthrew the ball to first, and the batter got to al BankWhen and the Congregational Church. second. theFirst runner headed for third, the He was elected the mayor of Moline in 1873, first base man threw to Grady, but he dropped one runner of his first actions – the replaceit where and the raced home, whereupon ment of the city’s open drains with a sewer Grady threw the ball over the catcher’s head. pipe system – saved countless lives by reducFour errors on a single play. ing the spread of disease.

• In 1931, the Braves were losing to the Cardi• The original John Deere logo, registered in nals, 12-0. Rabbit Maranville called time out 1876, depicted a deer that was native to Afriand gathered the team for an infield conferca. Thirty-six years later, in 1912, it was reence. They gathered in a football-type huddle. placed with the image of a North American Rabbit called the signals, someone snapped white-tailed deer. In the decades that folthe baseball to him, and the players went lowed, the back now-familiar “outline” logo took crazy tackling each other. over as the symbol of the John Deere brand.

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