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Show Black Jack Burdock's Hands Tell His Story Efforts were made recently to obtain the consent of "Black .lack" Burdock, famous ballplayer of W years and re ago. to grant an interview concerning himself and bis exploits in a now dim period in the national game, but he refused. "I never was one to talk about niy- self," said the veteran, whose hair and mustache once so blac k that they i earned for him his sobriquet are shot through with grav. Here he held out his hands, gnarled and knotted by countless hard-bit balls. "These nre my story." he said. "There Is nothing I could add to them." |