Vol. I -- Issue 3 A Tribute to Mothers and Fathers FREE JOURNAL Almost a Cardinal: My Father’s Story curveball and not hard career as a . By John Gary Pendleton pitchers. The Cardinals Now it’s 1934, he has 100 comes into play. Good luck and wanted a hard fastball throwing bucks and no baseball contract. bad luck. pitcher to mix things up. Well, He was a nice guy and made In 1934, vestiges is getting older by friends among the Cardinal’s of the St. Louis Cardinals this time in his career and is not front office, people like Lou “” was being impressing anyone, and Dizzy Bouton, so he was able to get formed around three pitchers Dean shows up for training with a few temp jobs there until he and a : Dizzy the flu! found a manufacturing position. Dean, his brother Paul (who It just so happened that the He tried to join the army but the Glen Hobbie, young boy, Gary, Nelson was known as Daffy Dean), a Cardinals played an exhibition ripped ligament in his right arm Briles. guy who figures in the story by game with Mark Twain Coal at restricted how much he could n 1934 my father, John the name of Dazzy Vance, and this time and a scout saw my lift, so he was classified 4F. IPendleton, injured his first baseman Ducky Milner. dad pitch, so they thought it My father’s baseball career pitching arm, which allowed Dazzy Vance was one of the would be a good idea to sign was over, but he was able to a pitcher by the name of principal hard throwing baseball my father to the team just in to be the winning pitchers of the 1920’s. case. They signed my father for pitcher for the 1934 Cardinals 100 dollars and were Baseball Club. While my thinking about calling father never made it into the him up because it was big leagues, his story is bound not clear that Dazzy, 41 up with one of the magical years old, was going to times in baseball history. And be able to do the job. the story goes like this: They were really looking John Pendleton was born for a pitcher who could October 4th, 1907 in Moberly, throw heat, but my father meet Joe Garagiola and Stan Missouri. He graduated from was a curveball man. He Musial. Dazzy Vance went on to high school just as the Great had a fine curveball, but pitch in 19 games in 1934 and Depression started and could I don’t think he threw a finished the season with a record not find a job. In the 1920’s ball faster than 86 mph of 15 and 2. Dizzy Dean pitched you could get a job in a factory Dazzy played for the in his life. My father looked the final game of the 1934 in St. Louis for .11 to .20 cents Brooklyn Dodgers and was an at the situation and knew he for the Cardinals, an hour, so that’s where he amazing artist. He had could not throw like 21-year- who won the Series that year. went. Someone who worked one of the hardest and old Dizzy Dean, but he could Dean became a sportscaster later in that factory told him that, the Brooklyn Dodgers said of possibly replace Dazzy . . . if he in his career and I got to sit with since he had graduated from Dazzy that he could throw a could learn to throw a fastball. my dad in the press box with high school, he could go to one cream puff through the side of a So, my dad goes to the them one year. My dad was an year of college and be making a battleship. He threw so hard, so Cardinals with the proposition avid fan his whole life and did dollar an hour. So, he went back they say, that you couldn’t even that he could be Dazzy Vance’s go back and do some coaching to Moberly and went to a junior replacement. for a couple of minor league college for two years. During They accept clubs, but that did not pay that time, he took up playing and send him to anything, so after that he took baseball and earned a reputation their farm club work as a wage earner because as a pretty good pitcher for the to teach him to he had married my mother and Moberly Travelers. throw harder. had me. He eventually went to When he got out of college Much harder. work at Wagner Electric. he was about 22 and he went He thought My dad was disappointed looking for that dollar an hour he could be because people told him he job, but it had gone by the making $5000 was good enough to be in wayside. He then moved to a year, so off the majors, and then things Northeastern Missouri and he goes in the conspired against him and it started playing baseball in see the ball. spring of 1933 and he starts to didn’t happen. Had he not had the summer for a farm club Anyway, the Dodgers traded throw as hard as he can, and he the friends from baseball that called the Mark Twain Coal Dazzy in a complicated player ends up throwing his arm away. he hung out with, it would have Club. Because of his pitching deal and the Cardinals ended First he developed tendinitis, but been harder to bear. One of experience in college, he was up with him. They wanted him he wanted to beat Dazzy Vance those friends was Lou Bouton. recruited to be a principal because their principal pitchers, so bad that he just kept throwing Lou never had children so he pitcher. My father was a good Paul and Dizzy Dean and a and he tore the ligament in his would take orphaned boys to pitcher, but here is where luck guy named , were elbow. That ended my father’s Continued on page 3

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He was a Kind Man: My Fathers afford to go to school, When the company was having came during dinner hour and Story so he saved up for trouble and they were just about Mother would always have By Lorna Harris, May 2017 - Highland Home a correspondence bankrupt, Mr. Moulton did not extra food there and my father course and studied it know what to do and said that would say, “Well, we are just very well. He played the violin if my dad could help, he would having supper, would you like very well and he loved baseball. make him superintendent. to come in and join us?” And His first job was at the Dad said I will do all I can, they would. Moulten-Bartley shoe factory. and in two years it became To this day there are many He started as a cutter, cutting a successful company and people who remember my out the leather, and years later employed over 300 people father because he was so kind, in Highland. Mr. and that’s what I remember the Lorna Harris Moulten was very most about him is his kindness y dad was born in 1898. happy and gave him a and his love for his family. He MHis name was Arthur bonus. was a good man, he loved God Ritt. He was a wonderful My father was and he instilled in me the love father, but he had a very poor very kind and made of God and kindness. beginning. At 12 years old, he money by working I would say it is my lucky had to go out and work. He very hard. I remember day to be able to tell somebody drove a cart for the butcher that he had a job all about my father because I loved in Highland and went to the during the Depression him so much. countryside in the summer and people would Check Lorna’s story, “My Father Lorna Harris’ Parents come to our house was a Kind Man,” at Onelegacy.com selling meat. He could not for a link to her video. he became the supervisor. and ask for jobs. Usually they

How I Met My Husband also becoming nurses for the course we were delighted by handle it, my eyes connected Army. We got all settled in this invitation and took them up with one of the other Second By: Mary Smith y profession was nursing to our quarters on base. That Lieutenants who noticed my Mand with World War II same evening, six young and discomfort. I mouthed the word raging I decided to join the war handsome Second Lieutenants “HELP” to him, and he came effort as an Army Nurse. My stopped by our quarters to right over to us. He told the induction ceremony included invite us to go with them to the other officer “Don’t hold my six other women who were Officer’s Club to dance! Of girl so tight” and cut in on the dance. From that moment on, I knew he was a good man. That night was the beginning of a new chapter in both of our

Mary Smith lives. We began dating and eventually married. After we on their offer. married, I had to give up being We felt really important an Army Nurse because at that being in the Officer’s Club. It time you could not be married was all a new adventure. One and be a nurse in the military. of the officers asked me to Times have certainly changed dance and I said yes! Once since then. But we had a very we started dancing however, happy life together. We were I became uncomfortable with married for sixty-seven years the way he was holding me. ultimately having six children. It felt inappropriate and as I It has been a very full and was trying to figure out how to wonderful life.

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grooming salon, and even Dogs are Miracles on Paws Heinz 57 open window terrarium. He had by Missi Schulte dog school. Eventually she Submitted by Marilyn McIntosh climbing branches and could got used to being pampered lory play with leaves and rocks. and would lie around rom the was What I remember most about G the house. She was the ring time I the second F Frisky is when he jumped on bearer in my wedding and was was 2 yrs Samoyed Nipper’s back and rode around absolutely perfect. I think she old until the I had. I the house and yard. Frisky never felt the day was all about her. time I was rescued her In September of 2011, 18 years when she my groomer found a lump old, we was 6 years on her mammary gland. I had a little old, one had it removed and biopsied Heinz 57 month after my first Samoyed immediately. I found out that “mutt” named Nipper. He was passed away. I was heartbroken at age 13 my best friend had my babysitter and my best and needed another friend in my aggressive cancer. I was so buddy. He started out with life. She was American Kennel distraught and felt as if my a curly tail that he promptly Club (AKC) registered and used broke in the screen door. He for breeding and dog shows. went everywhere with me: to The breeder was finished with school, to friends’ homes, and her because she was too old to especially to Prisoners Lake have puppies. She needed the in Devou Park. If I managed space and gave Glory to the even attempted to away. to walk alone, my mom would Samoyed Rescue Foundation; Nipper’s favorite activity send him to get me for supper. my parents and I drove to Niles, involved chasing cars; we could I can’t remember a day without Michigan to pick her up. not break him of this habit: he him. Two days after picking her received several broken legs, He protected all of our up, I took her to the vet and bumps, bruises, and vet visits. animals and was kind to the discovered she had pyometra, In the neighborhood, he was whole crew; he played with the an infection in her uterus. My known for getting rid of moles, heart had been stabbed. I cats and my chameleon, Frisky. wonderful vet spayed her that mice, and other pests. We didn’t want her to suffer, but Mom made Frisky his own day on her lunch. If Glory had I wanted her with me longer. not had the surgery, she might I decided to go ahead with Continued on Page 7 have lived a week or two at the chemotherapy treatment from a most. When I got Glory, she local pet oncologist. She was was so used to being in a crate upfront and told me there were that I would have to put the no guarantees. Glory was able leash on her in the crate to get to complete three rounds of her to come out. She would chemotherapy. With the type of drag my Boyd bears to her crate cancer she had, that was all they as if they were her puppies. I began to socialize her and take Continued on Page 7 her places like the pet store, the

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