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Show CKO0O0OO0O0K0 0X 9 Polish Players in Baseball ' I O T"yLAND. a magazine published In the United States for Polish- P Americans, devotes six pages of its current issue to "Poland's 5 0 Contribution to American Baseball." The article lists nine players 9 A of Polish descent who are in the major leagues, gives a number starring 5 9 in the minors and a still larger number prominent in college baseball. 9 X Most ijlustrious of all the Polish players, according to the author, x 8 Is Stanley Covelcskie, who, because of his work in two world series. Is g 5 rated above all other players of Polish descent. 6 9 There were five Coveleskics who played ball. Harry Covelcskie was X 6 for a few yean; Ihe star of the Detroit pitching staff. He never was as 9 9 good as Stanley and the other three brothers never reached the major 6 leagues, writes H. G. Salsinger in the Detroit News. 9 I We learn that the Philadelphia Athletics have three stars who are 9 Polish. They are John BolinskI, Jack Picus and Albert Szymanski. 5 Strangely enough these three are the only Polish players in the major 9 leagues not appearing under their family names. Jack Picus Is known A to baseball as Jack -Quinn nnd Is generally regarded ns being nn Irish- 9 mam John BolinskI is Joe Bolcj' to baseball, while Albert Szymanski 6 is known us Al Simmons. a Discussing the Pole in American sports, we quote from the article: 9 "The outstanding Slav in our present scheme of things athletic Sj is the Pole, nnd the ardor nnd tire that he puts into a game of foot- 0 v - - ? 9 7 aV srt ball, a game of baseball or a game X of basket ball nre all n room- 0 descence of the old fighting spirit A that animated the heroic Polish 9 warriors of old. 8 "The Indomitable fighting spirit of Koscziusko nnd bis valorous 0 followers In their Ill-starred strug- gle for freedom, the courage nnd 9 chivalry of King John Sohleski nnd his army who risked n far- $ flung, hazardous expedition to de- 6 fend Christian Vienna from the 9 hordes of Infidel Turks, Is revltal- i ized today In American sports jij arenas. The volatile, virile Polish 9 people, whose ideal of freedom was kept alive in the burning, epic 0 lines of Micklewlcz, nnd the stir- 5 ring romanticism of Sletiklewlcz, 6 are finding new channels of self- , 6 expression after the repression of O $ Stanley Covelcskie. a century and n half." $ 9 - 00X00O00OO00OOO0O0000KOO0KO0000000O0OO |