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Show f SEE J III SflW d!l Continued from page 1 hander. He pitched, like kids will, every other day, and that overwork over-work probably cost him his pitching pitch-ing career, something he seldom missed because he could play every day in the outfield and clout his way around the circuit with that one-time "Miracle Team," the Braves of 1914. But it of course was Strand's Salt Lake performances that the old timers remember. One year with the Bees he hit 49 homers, the next year .48. He led the coast league hitters time ifnd time again, and the fans would go wETa as the strapping slugger stepped up to the plate,, rapped the mud out of his spikes with his bat and got ready to hoist another over the old Bonneville fence. hot as the Yank-Dodger series is looming today. ivias iovea jraui oiituiu, tuiu c gave away many a gross of "Paul Strand" miniature bats to them the little war clubs being provided by a bat manufacturer especially for the purpose of obtaining good will through one of baseball's greatest goodwill artists, Paul Strand. Indeed, as the world series moves 'across the 1953 horizon many will recall how in 1948 the Boston Braves sent for Paul Strand to be on hand for its diamond (75th) jubilee celebration, and he went along with other old baseball greats to one of the nation's greatest great-est tributes to its favorite passtime. And as time and baseball goes on, someone someday might approach ap-proach the Paul Strand records but no one yet has in the more than 25 years since he set those records in competition that was as hot as a firecracker then or as |