Sugar House Bulletin | 1948-01-01 | Page 6 | A Striking Story |

Type	issue
Date	1948-01-01
Paper	Sugar House Bulletin
Language	eng
City	Salt Lake City
County	Salt Lake
Rights	No Copyright - United States (NoC-US)
Publisher	Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Article Title	A Striking Story
Type	article
Date	1948-01-01
Paper	Sugar House Bulletin
Language	eng
City	Salt Lake City
County	Salt Lake
Page	6
OCR Text	Show An American League umpire named Jack Kerns had a phobia against calling games. No matter how dark it got, Kerns felt that a ball game was nine innings or ; more. One day when Kerns refused to call a game, the pitcher in desperation des-peration huddled with his catcher and whispered, "Listen, you keep the ball in your mitt. I'll wind up and pretend to throw it. You pop it into your glove as though you'd caught it." There were two strikes on the batter. The pitcher went through his motions the catcher popped his mitt. "Strike three and out!" bet lowed Kerns. . i "Strike?" screamed the batter. ;"Why that ball was two feet outside out-side 1" j
Reference URL	https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6f51qh2/9671807