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Show Here N' There Jim Gentile, Baltimore Orioles, who set a major league record with two consecutive grand slim home runs In one ball game, v as picked up by the Baltimore team from Los Angeles before the 1960 season for little more than $25,000. Gentile had the reputation reputa-tion of a playboy and when the Dodgers ran out of options on him Oriole Manager Paul Richards was apparently the only major league manager interested in the 6-4, 215 pound first baseman. Last year be showed the soundness of Richards' judgment by hitting .293 with 21 home runs . . . Bill Veeck of the Chicago White Sox was among several American League owners last winter who were critical of the fact that the new Los Angeles Angels and the luckless Washington Senators weren't getting a fair share of the league's best players. Veeck then said he personally was willing to give up more If other owners would do the same. This year the White Sox dropped to 10th (dead last) in the American League race and, no doubt, Veeck has no reason rea-son to be so generous-minded this year. |