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Hi* «rm mav have lout most of Its j cunning and hi* let* may have eon# j buck on him, but the name Orover Cleveland Alexander i* still a magnet to baseball fans He s advertised to pitch in everv tame and tie usually goes tn for an Inning or two Last year the House of David team played 184 game* and Alexander pitched in j more than haif of them They ve i played about 11% this year, and he’s \ been In 96 of themDon t the old soup-bone ever hurtyou?” he wa* asked The strain of pitching night, after j night makes it get nred quick and I can’t last more than two or three j inning*.' he said ”1 think though j if I got niv legs in shape and had the proper neat I could go the route onera week * j‘ How do you like this life?Thi* t* toother than playing In J the b;g league* ’ hr replied 1 There ; everything* arranged for you, you ; live flret-ciaa* and you don t have to do nothing but play ball The po°t, diamonds the hoetile crowds the I partial umpires and bad accommodations and everything like that make jthi* pretty tough * jEventually we go* to talking about jthe time he came tn to pitch in the 1928 World Series with the ha*** filled fanned LiU'V and pitched the Cardinal* into the world * championship tt has been written andsaid that he was tipsy when he cam*into the box that day *1 wasn t no more drunk than them anort writer* who-started that,” Alex said *1 took rrv time and lust kind of moeied in because I knew the longer »t took me to get to the box the moir- nervous a youngster likeLawer would be '* !
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DuBois Courier Express
DuBois, Pennsylvania, US
Tue, Aug 23, 1932
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