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EVE-ii-OR-NOl!
BY TOM M E A N Y
enough and Rij) himself says tlie same thing, so it must be so.
Apparently. Ripley was bound lo travel with the Giants, for when he couldn't make the grade as a member of the team, he promjnly i)ecame attached to them as a sports correspondent for the New York Globe. The only other instances of former ball players becoming writers, that I know of. are the cases of Stan Baumgartner, now writing for the Philadelphia Ledger, who was a southpaw pitcher for the IVhite Sox and Athletics, and Warren Brown, sports editor of the Chicago Herald-Examiner, who was a first baseman in the Pacific Coast League for a brief period.
Instances of a ball player breaking his arm throwing a ball are as rare as the anatomical curiosa which Ripley himself is forever unearthing. Rip. who really liked baseball, organized his own team one summer, after the War — the Ripley AllStars. They played on Long Island against most of the semi-pro teams of that vicinity.
Pitching one Sunday in May, Ripley delivered the ball with such violence that his right arm sufifered a muscular break below the elbow, the bone breaking as sharply as though he had been pole-axed. Yet. in August of that year, Ripley was back playing with his All-Stars again, this time as a first baseman and throwing left-handed! Incidentally, this ambidexterity of Ripley's was not impromptu, for he started playing tennis as a southpaw, switching to right-handed tennis after he had been playing for some years.
A reminder of Ripley's career as a baseball writer turned up only recentlv in the form of a letter from Larry Doyle, who had been captain of the Giants when Bob was an infield aspirant. Larry wrote Bob to tell him that a fan recently had sent him the original baseball with which he had hit a home run in 1912. The fan, sitting in the stands at the Polo (irounds. had caught the ball, kept it as a memento for a quarter of a centurv and returned it to Doyle when he read that the former Giant captain was organizing a baseball school for youngsters.
Rip was quite friendly with several members of the Giant teams of that jieriod. {Continued on page 66)
Returning from a trip to Alaska, Ripley began the new General Foods Program heard Fridays at 9 p.m. EDST on NBCBIue.
here are some facts about his life as amazing as any he's told