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Monday, February 11, 1974
University Daily Kansan
Book Describes Baseball as It Was
By BILL CAMPBELL KENNEDY RENTURES
Kansan Reviewer
"THE GLORY OF THEIR TIMES" by
Larence S. Sitter (300 pages, Collier
Press)
Take a trp back in time. Back to 1908, to a baseball game between Detroit and Cleveland, and watch Germany Schaefer steal first base.
"The Glory of Their Times," through memories of 22 men who played baseball from the turn of the century through the present, are sure and a game far different from the one we know today. You'll view a game of large parks and small gloves, of 48-ounce bats and
Ritter and his tape recorder traveled
And because he lets the men tell their stories, the flavor of the times is returned. The game is baseball, but more importantly, it's a book about the meet who played baseball.
75,000 miles through the United States and
over 12,000 stories of the men who
planned ballgame then.
men like Ty Cobb, Honus Wagner and Charlie Johnson, men like Rogers Hornsby, Christy Mathewson and Baba Ruth. It all there. But this book tells more than just their exploits on the field—a baseball encyclopedia can give you that. It tells what it was like to play and live alongside them, as remembered by the men who were there.
Giants win three pennants and yet pitched only two innings. It's about pitcher Rube Waddell, who would pour ice water on his arm because he didn't want to burn up his catcher's glove and call in his outfield and pitch without them.
The book is about an era of baseball when it was possible for little Tommy Leach to lead the National League in home runs with six, and for the New York Giants to steal 34 bases in one season. It was an era in which the Nats were brilliant and still lost the batting title by 24 points.
ITS’ALSO ABOUT men like Charles Victory Faust, who helped the New York
IN MANY PLACES the book is comic. The reader is treated to scenes such as three Dodgers on third base at the same time, a pitcher sliding into home run, then racing to first base and diving in.
head first, to jump up and shout, "Schaefer leading at the quarter!" repeat, the act at second and third and, after dying into home, get up, brush himself off and announce, "Schaefer wins by a mose" and people in the stands for the attention.
The book is serious where the men compare their game with today's. They are serious when they discuss the achievements, with remarkably accurate memories in most cases, of their fellow players.
"The Glory of Their Days" is easy to read. It's pages, with the dozen of pictures, flair almost too fast. When you've finished you'll be forced to smile, lean back and say, "Damn, I wish I could have seen that."
Holy Rollers Put Through Wringer
By STEVE LEWIS
"THE PREACHERS," by James Morris
THE PREACHERS," by James Morris (418 pages; St. Martin's Press, 1973; $35.99). From the holy world of fruits and nuts covers The Preachers' a book about successful martyrs, southers and con man who dispense joy to the world in the name of Jesus.
Author James Morris has studied nine contemporary religious sideshow rings, ranging from the 1960s through the 2000s and has written an amusing expose that the Gideons would do well to place in every book.
Mortis particularly roughs up Oral
Berkshire, the faith hearter turned college
Robert's spiritual career began when he was 17 years old. While playing basketball he collapsed from an illness that was diagnosed as tuberculosis.
By coincidence, a tent revivalist was in town. Robert's parents took him to see the church, where he was baptized. Unfortunately, there is no documented proof that Roberts ever had TB. Nevertheless, a few weeks after the miracle, he was married and remained in the Pentecostal Holiness Church
Roberts' faith-healing abilities first became apparent in 1946, when a friend's
Paperbacks
"HENRY IN A SILVER FRAME" by James Eastwood, Pocket, 95 cents)—An interesting mystery thriller about a writer who comes up with an idea involving two women who are sent together on a trip through Europe, one of them becoming a murderess. Then the whole thing assumes a realistic twist.
"IHHE HARVEST BURNS" by Helga Moray (Paycor, $1.25)--Another in this writer's series about the people who settled South Africa. Her heroin returns to the land of the Boers and becomes involved in a romance with a handsome duke.
"PAPILLON" by Henri Charrieire (Pocket, $1.95) — a reprint of a nonfiction book of escape that is assuming new populist identities and a motion picture version. "Papillon" is a about man who is convicted in Paris and sent to the infamous penal colony of French Guiana. He escapes, is captured and sent to prison, then escapes again. It reads more like a novel.
"LONE STAR RANGER" by Zane Gray (Pocket, 75 cents) "FUGIVEIT'S CANYON" by Hall G. Evarts (Pocket, 75 cents) - Western tales, the first by a man who died 35 years ago but whose books are still popular; this one about Buck Duane and the Texas Rangers. The second is by a more recent writer. Both are pretty routine.
"STORM IN THE VALLEY" by Carolyn MacDonald (Pocket, 50 cents) — A romantic tale in set in America at the time of the Revolution. The girl who fails in love with a Levaileal raider girl who falls in love with a Levaileal raider girl.
THE "CASE OF THE SLEEPWALKER'S NIECE" by Erle Stanley Gardner (Pocket, 95 cents)—One of the earliest Perry Mason tales, first published in 1936, this is about a boy who sleeps a sheepwalker, who may have committed a crime, but doesn't know. Good fun as always.
THE GODDESS ABIDES" by Pearl S. Buck (Pocket, $1.59) a soapy but well-written romantic drama, published in 1972. Her debut novel is taught her "the real meaning of love."
"THE NIGHT STALKER" by Jeff Rise (Pocket, $1.25) - Adapted from a television screenplay that attracted wide attention. Las Vegas is the setting of this story about murders that appear to have been committed by a vampire.
"GOOD NEWS FOR THE MODERN MAN" (Pocket, 95 cents) - The New Testament in a modern English version, the translation of the American Bible Society.
Convict Running
THOMASTON, Maine (AP)—If elected governor, Maine State Prison inmate Danny Trask could have the power to grant parole but he says he won't do it. He would be arrested. But he says he won't do it.
Trask, serving a 20 to 40 years sentence for robbery, was ruled eligible to become a gubernatorial candidate Friday. Atty. Gen. Jon A. Land said no state law bars him from office, and the Secretary of State has been preparing Trask's nomination papers.
Convicted in October, 1965, Trask, 35, will be considered for parole until December, 2018.
foot was apparently crushed by a heavy motor.
Samperming to the rescue, Roberts touched the toe of his friend's mangled foot.
His friend's foot was instantly restored.
ROBERTS WAS UNKSE, however,
their feet were still very sore.
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hurself in his church study, laid on the floor and told God he wouldn't leave until God spoke to him. Unable to resist, God commanded Roberts to the sick.
Healing is exactly what Roberts did until God told him to build a college and to name it St. Michael's College.
Roberts, a secret intellectual all along, closed down his faith-healing tent for good in 1967 to become a new person, a college president.
Then there is A. A. Allen, whom Morris describes as a combination James Cagney and George Wallace. Allen was in "the Great War" with his brother the Lord and became a faith healer.
Allen was fairly effective, too. Bodies could be seen convalescing on his revival tent's floor as he heated them with the power of God.
ALLEN, OF COURSE, disliked reporters because they were a threat to expose him.
He once publicly sent demons to attack several newmen. President Nixon would
But Allen decided to move on to greater things. He announced in 1966 that he would begin raising the dead. The government, objected, and Allen had to change his nunit.
Finally, Allen's wife filed for divorce, charging that her husband was insane.
On June 11, 1970, at the peak of his success, Allen died. The coroner's verdict:
The most successful black preacher today is a relative newcomer. Rey, Ik. Wee.
A former unsuccessful hellfire and dammation preacher from South Carolina, Rev. Kev proposes a new philosophy: "I want my pie, with ice, with cream on ton."
TELLING HIS BLAST followers that "you can't lose with the stuff I use." Rev. Ike solicits money from them on faith that they will be rewarded by God with Cadillacs and new homes. Ike calls it the "Blessing Plan." It is been a blessing for him, anyway. He has a wardrobe that would put Liberace's to shame.
My favorites from Morris's list are the Armstrongs—father Herbert and son Garner Ted. Together they've scientifically proved that God's intervention and proved the inerrancy of the Bible.
The gloom and doom message drives their radio and television listeners to despair, only to be given one last hope in the coming "wonderful world tomorrow."
THE ARMSTRONGS' broadcasting style and their lack of appeals for money have
made their 42-year-old Church of God the largest independent evangelical church in America.
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Herbert, 81, flies around the world bobbing with world leaders while Garner Ted, 43, stays home prophesying the imminent end of the rule of map.
Their semi-secret church has an annual income of $55 million, which is largely financed by 75,000 tithing coworkers, in inclusion chess champion Bobby Fischer.
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Monday, Feb.18, 8pm
These are but a few of Morris's fascinating preachers--persons who have become skilled in the art of exploiting human suffering and ignorance. As a light shineth in darkness, "The Preachers" is worth your time.
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