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...autobiographical note in Who's Who in Baseball Jerome Herman Dean names Holdenville, Okla. as his birthplace. But according to J. Roy Stockton in the Saturday Evening Post, Dean gives various birthplaces and birth dates to various interviewers "so their bosses won't bawl 'em out for gettin' the same story...
Shot Put--Won by Zaitz (BC), 48 ft. 3 in. (New record); second, Thomson (MIT), 41 ft. 2 in.; third, Hadley (NU), 40 ft. 9 1-4 in.; fourth, Herman (MIT), 40 ft. 6 1-4 in.; fifth, Mead...
...brilliant defensive team, were seven games ahead of their nearest rivals a month before the season ended last year. Starting with the same line-up this year, they are less likely to be caught napping. The St. Louis Cardinals are eight competent big-league baseball players and Jerome Herman ("Dizzy") Dean who, after doing more than anyone else to win the pennant and the World Series last year, was last week busily engaged in announcing to the U. S. how he plans to accomplish the same feat again...
...front page headlines. His biography in the Saturday Evening Post followed that of the Blue Eagle. On the dials of cheap Waterbury watches his portrait followed that of Mickey Mouse. By last week, it was clear that with Shirley Temple, Father Coughlin, the Dionne Quintuplets and Mrs. Roosevelt, Jerome Herman Dean was definitely one of that small company of super-celebrities whose names, faces and occupations are familiar to every literate U. S. citizen and whose antics, gracious or absurd, become the legend of their time...
Stones; Shoes; Strikes. Jerome Herman Dean was born in Holdenville, Okla. in 1911. His father was an impoverished junkman and cotton picker. His mother died when he was 4. Jerome Dean began pitching to his brother, two years his junior, with a ball made out of yarn wrapped around a stone. He threw stones at squirrels until his aim was deadly. By the time he was 12, he was invited to pitch for the baseball team of a nearby high school which, because he had left grammar school after the fourth grade, he was too ignorant to attend...