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IMadison Fans to See 'Dizzy' Dean in 'Form'One of baseball’s modem immortals, Jerome “Dizzy” Dean, will appear in Madison next Monday night for an exhibition, the “Great Man” teaming with Kennedy Dairy’s Industrial League lineup against an All-Star team selected from the other seven teams in Madison’s wartime diamond circuit.The largest crowd of the city’s baseball season is expected to jam Brcese Stevens field for the tilt which Is scheduled to start at 8:30 o’clock with Dean on the rubber for the Kennedy club. Sixteen players will make up the All-Star squad which will he directed by Eddie I.enahan as manager and Dave Schmitz and Rennie Elchorst as coaches.Those are the facts behind Dean’s appearance here, but behind the former St. Louis Cardinal mound ace lies a long story. Forced to the sidelines in 1939 by his once powerful arm which could no longer wheel the ball past opposing batters, Dizzy retired to broadcasting games over a St. Louis radio station and to “barnstorming.”Jerome Herman (Dizzy) Dean is the owner of baseball’s costliest arm. In the spring of 1938 the Chicago Cubs gave the St. Louis Cardinals $185,000 in cash“ . . . interestedand $85,000 or so In players for;Dean, but the “Great One” failed 1 for the Cubs, his arm having j faded. Very shortly after coming jto the Cubs it began to be clear! that Dean was the victim of ,an ailment which would keep him off the diamond consistently and from which he might never fully recover.“ . . . too badThe trouble to describe it sim- | ply, lay in a pulled muscle in j Dean’s shoulder. Owner Phil * Wrigley of the Cubs took it sport- jingly. It would help the Cub system even if the arm wouldn’t.Given costly treatments without response, Denn finally went to Tulsa in the Texas league and I later returned to the Cub*. Butmeditationhe no longer was In major league’ form, and at last retired.Born in January or July of • 1910—or 1911 at either Russell-j I ville, Ark., or Bartlesville, Okla.— j , Dean said he was sure which ! it was—the volumble humorist of baseball played so well on an army oost team that he was signed i for the Cardinals farm in 1930. he*s rightand his rise to fame began.His antics on and off the field, his boasting and his colorful pitching quickly centered attention on Dean.His sojourn with the Cardinals was punctuated by f r e q u ent squabbles with his teammates and the management, as well as Na-l tional League authorities. HisHere Monday Night! greatest year w'as 1934, when he won 30 games, losing but seven, clinching first the league pennant and then the world series for the Cards.Because of his lack of words Dean has been a figurehead in the broadcasting of baseball games in St. Louis. He has interspersed his radio work with “barnstorming” tours throughout the middle west. He has appeared in major league ball parks as well as small cities, towns and communities, and his appearances have been marked by large crowds which have turned out not only to see the “Great One” pitch but also to listen to his commentary of the game in action over public address systems.“Dizzy” is to pitch five innings for the Kennedy Dairy team and then will retire to first base. In addition he will comment over the Breese Stevens field public address system as his team is at bat.Tickets for the game are now on sale at 55 cents for men and women, 28 cents for servicemen, serv ieewomen, and children.Mayor James R. Law of Madison has declared Monday as “Dizzy Dean Day” and the mayor will toss out the first ball at Monday night’s game with a WAVE as the catcher. Other sidelights are being planned.I
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Madison Wisconsin State Journal
Madison, Wisconsin, US
Fri, Aug 06, 1943
Page 12
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