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Show npHE breaks in baseball can have A tw0 sides, just about the same fas a plank. They can be good and they can be much worse. It isn't all a matter of milk and honey. There is the somewhat melancholy melan-choly case of my old golf, bridge and fishing partner known as Dizzy T"" Dean. Diz was as I;; goofy as a coot in J many ways, espe- : s cially when it came g to popping off, but r he was a great s - I pitcher and a grand j f fellow with whom s s S to fish or play golf, $s s which is no bad ' test. And he brought vJ"Lwi more color to the game through a Grantland comparatively brief Rlce span than anyone since Babe Ruth. Thinking of his recent somersaults in the box I turned back to his better bet-ter days. From 1933 through 1936, a matter of four major league years, Ole Diz won 102 ball games, an average better than 25 a year through four consecutive seasons. That was far away and long ago for Ole Diz. The Glory That Was Dean's In 1936 he was only 25 years old, six feet three inches in height, and weighed 189 pounds. With that free, easy motion of his, an almost perfect per-fect pitching motion, Dean apparently appar-ently had at least 10 good years left He couldn't miss. In addition to blazing speed, a sharp-breaking curve, and a change of pace, Diz had a cool, smart pitching head and his full share of heart. He had about everything a great pitcher needs. He couldn't miss. Then the tragedy of 1937 came along when he first picked up an injured toe. A short while later, lacking his full follow through, he blew a fuse in his pitching shoulder. Uncle Charlie Moran was umpiring the game that day when Diz developed devel-oped the kink that has been called many names, from bursitis on down through the. list of ailments and ills. Bought by Chicago, Ole Diz won only seven games in 1938 and only six games in 1939, pitching almost exclusively with the old bean. His fast ball couldn't break the cuticle of a custard pie. The wonder is that he could win any games at all. From the Cotton Fields Being naturally lazy, Diz then began be-gan to put on weight and this was 1 4 r -'i j no great help. He moved from 189 to 220 in two years. Diz came up the hard way maybe too hard a way. He told me once that he and Paul and his father, after picking cotton from "sun to sun" sunup to sundownhad sun-downhad only a Can Or two nf snr- Dizzy Dean dines and crackers for their daily and only meal. The odd part is that Paul Dean collapsed about the same time as Diz. They came up together, an inseparable pair, and they blew the heights together. There was an unusual un-usual family hookup between these two brothers that carried along through big years and bad years. I've been with both when Dizzy argued that Paul had more stuff "than I ever had." And Paul would come back "I never was in Dizzy's class." Dizzy never minded being called Dizzy but Paul, a quiet, shy retiring retir-ing fellow, never liked to be known as Daffy. That was a nickname Paul resented bitterly. The average fan likes Dizzy Dean The average fan likes color. Dizzy gave him a whirl of excitement and fun for several years. I've been asked many hundreds of times whether or not Dizzy had anything any-thing left, how much he had saved. What Will Happen? I don t know. His wife, Pat Dean has been smart enough. But Dizzv was never any too careful with his money. I've seen Babe Ruth take him for S100 a day on the J,,, course, giving Dizzy all the handi-cap handi-cap Ole d asked for. I know ?. ers have taken him for much more D.zzy has much more confidence in h.s golf swing than the Dean swine ever justified. g In fact, his golf game depended far more on cool nerve and vast de termination than it ever depended on a bad swing, which P Med a flat-footed stance and usually e P ch, chlp and puu And uw quit or gave up hope. n2' 41,6 four-year headliner now has nice home and a smau farm outside of Dallas. VnTcw some form of miracle takes place to rest an armat 'sw s' "f coming back. Once in a lu , the kink disappears, as it ,e case of Lefty Grove. the No one can make me bolievo ,u , Dizzy isn't giving aU he has at cry start, for I ncver s"Saa ev" petitor who drew a bi8Bor lhari,?m: I |