National ~ Pastime the Grass Is Ever Green
Ifwinter comes, can spring be far be hind? Not in the land of baseball, TNPII where winter is but latent spring, a warm climate for reflection on pastjoys and anticipation of new ones. TNP's intrepid weather prediction: Min nesota's winter (made over as re-Twin) will be unusually balmy this year. As the pennant race and postseason play recede into perspective, their accounts added to the game's swelling ledger, the old gods take to the field with renewed vigor. This is their season: Move over, Kirby and Ozzie; come on ==================~ back, Babe and Lou. For in the mindofthefan, as in Stuart THE _ Leeds' lovely drawing on the cover, the snow may fall but National ~ Pastime the grass is ever green. A REVIEW 01" BASEBALL HISTORY This issue of The National Pastime is filled with the special pleasures of the hot-stove league: The Hidden-Ball Trick, Nicaragua, and Me, Historical Excavation: What ever happened to Eddie jay Feldman 2 Gaedel? Was Honus Wagner a racist? What was the real Bill Veeck Park: A Modest Proposal, Philip Bess 5 story behind the Willard Hershberger suicide? Was Sena Eddie Gaedel: The Sad Life of Baseball's Midget, tor catcherJim French a hidden star? These teaser ques jim Reisler 9 tions only point to the articles by, respectively,Jim Reisler, Little Known Facts, Conrad Hom 10 Adie Suehsdorf, Jarnes Barbour, and Merritt Clifton-let Honus Wagner's Rookie Year, A.D. Suehsdorf 11 them speak for themselves. Ossie Bluege: The Quirkless Man,jane Levy 18 Statistical Rumination: The fault, dear reader, is not in Spring Training Pioneers, Gene Karst 22 ourselves, but in our stars-that's the turnJohn Holway "Macmillan," Frank V.
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