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...went behind me." One thing Rico could always do, though, was "heet the ball." That is what impressed major league scouts when, at 18, Carty came to the U.S. to play in the Pan American Games. Unable to speak a word of English, he was quick to give his autograph to any man who smiled at him. "I think I sign twelve contracts," he says, "eight to play in the U.S. and four for the Dominican Republic...
...after losing his high hard one (Bouton won 21 games for the Yankees of 1963). To be sure, he gets his digs in along the way. He tells of Mantle showing up for a game "hung over out of his mind" and pushing little kids aside who wanted his autograph; of white umpires deliberately trying to embarrass Negro Umpire Emmett Ashford. He tells, too, of the way former Yankee Pitcher Whitey Ford conspired to load the ball with mud, or scuff it with a ring. "Ford," explains Bouton, "could make a mud ball drop, sail, break in, break...
...Metzenbaum ran around him. Glenn could not escape marginally valuable autograph sessions with schoolchildren well below voting age; Metzenbaum had no such time-wasting troubles. Glenn had opposed the state Democratic organization six years ago. "John doesn't even bother to see the county chairman when he is in town," a Metzenbaum aide ob served. Glenn's opponent had managed two tough, victorious campaigns for Senator Stephen Young and made good use of the party pros...
...blue's about the best I've seen." Cooper explained. Spider nodded solemnly. Cooper talked like a beatnik as far as Spider could tell, but he tried to overlook it and passed him a panel from a case of Coke so that Cooper might autograph it. "Alan Cooper," he wrote. It wasn't as much a thrill for Spider as shaking Don Everly's hand at the Tea Party, but it was, nevertheless, exciting...
...mutual friend threw a dinner party to introduce Olympic Skier Susie Chaffee to Secretary of the Navy John Chafee-after ascertaining that they were unrelated. The Secretary opened gallantly by asking for an autograph,but blonde Susie responded instead with an inscription of her own: "Make snow...