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• Bob Fothergill was a big man. He was a good hitter, but he was sensitive about his weight. As Leo Durocher got ready to pitch against him, he called for “time out” and approached the umpire. When the ump asked what was wrong, Durocher replied, “Don’t you know the rules?” he asked, pointing at Fothergill. “BOTH those guys can’t bat at the same time!” Fothergill was so angry he completely lost his focus and Durocher struck him out.

a nasty hangover from the night before. He raced to the ball, scooped it up and fired it to the second baseman. It wasn’t until the crowd broke into laughter that he realized no one had actually batted it.

and missed again. He threw down his bat and walked back to the dugout. “Hey,” called the by K ump, “You’ve only got two strikes!” “No,” replied Schaefer, “It’s three strikes — I swung 1. W at that pitch he threw to first base!”

• In the early 1900s, Rube Waddell was such a sc great pitcher that all batters feared him. One m dayKara the Kovalchik pitcher on the opposing team got a by & Sandy Wood se great idea: if he could tire Waddell out before the game, his pitching would be off. So he What’s Waddell the proper to a pitching contest. • Ty Cobb, playing for the Detroit Tigers in 1912, 1. challenged Whichever one ofname them could was suspended from play when he had taken scientific forthrow thethe farthest 2. W all he could from an abusive heckler. Cobb tra PITCHINGthat SHENANIGANS : To page 15 moment the spring jumped into the stands and started pounding season begins? PROOF fir on the man’s head. His sympathetic teammatesADVERTISING sp MON., AUG. 6 went on strike. So the manager advertised for Changes DUE: Final 5:00 p S new players to fill in the nextPlease day atreview a game 2. What flower is Number(s)  Spelling  Prices carefully. Double check:  Phone in Philadelphia. This impromptu team went 1. Who holdsimmediately thethe record forwith the changes or correctio traditionally ContactA’s. your Tidbits representative up against the world champion Oakland most home runs hit in a single first to bloom as The pitcher allowed 25 hits and 7 walks in 8 Office: 760-320-0997 Fax: 760-320-1630 month? innings, but did manage to get one strike-out. spring 2. Who was walked a record An infielder was hit in the mouth by a ground 232 times during a single major ball and lost two teeth. An outfielder was hit on league season? the head by a fly ball. This pick-up team got 4 Beach House Yogurt hits and made 10 errors and the final score was BZ 4CADVERTISING 26x rate Answers pagePROOF 16 24 - 2. The next day, the regular team members Aug. 12,Changes 2012 Vol. Final DUE:8 - No. 33 5:00 p.m.. ended their strike, paid their fines, and went Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours CLIP AND SAVE ADVERTISING PROOF 1. V Contact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections. back to work -- except for Cobb, who was MON., FEB. 25 Office: 760-320-0997 Fax: 760-320-1630 FinalQUIZ Changes DUE: BITS 5:00 p.m.. suspended for 10 days. 2. C

• Luke Appling went to bat for the White Sox in a game against the Tigers in the 1930s. In one at-bat he hit 14 consecutive foul balls. On the 15th pitch, the disgusted pitcher threw his glove instead of the ball. • In 1961, Cleveland Indians pitcher Herb Score was hit in the eye by a line drive hit by New York Yankee Gil McDougald. The ball bounced off Score’s head and rolled to first base, where the Cleveland first baseman nabbed it and put the batter out. Score was credited with an assist.

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• William Kennedy was pitching for Brooklyn in 1897 when the umpire called a close decision against him. Kennedy lost his temper and hurled the baseball at the umpire, intending to smack him in the head. The ball narrowly missed the ump, who called the ball in play. A runner on base scored before the catcher could retrieve the ball. Brooklyn lost the game 2 - 1.

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I told him the truth: Aggression in puppies A recent investigative report in Time magais not normal. It isn’t safe to keep Romeo in a house zine by Stephen Brill described “Why Medical Bills with children. Are Killing Us.” He tells the story of a man recently How does it happen that a 3-month-old pup diagnosed with lymphoma. As a small businessis aggressive? man, all he could afford was insurance that paid When Hubby visited the breeder where he a maximum of $2,000 daily for a hospital stay. Hospital bills are impossible to understand. MD Anderson Cancer Center, the hospital of his found Romeo, he met Romeo’s mother, who prompt Health care is complex and sophisticated, ly growled at him. Sometimes it’s as simple as bad choice, refused to accept his insurance and reutilizes cutting-edge technology and offers hope of breeding. 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Getting Social Security From a Jerk Gosh, there are a lot of rotten husbands out there! That’s why I keep telling my wife she should fall down on her knees every day and thank her lucky stars that she got one of the good guys. OK, I really don’t do that. In fact, if I did say that to my wife, the only reason she might drop to her knees is because she’d be laughing so hard she wouldn’t be able to keep standing! But I can’t help thinking there are an awful lot of ... well ... awful men out there. That’s because I get emails almost every day from women asking me a Social Security question that involves being married to a jerk. Here are several examples:

I have a complicated stor y and don’t know where to turn. I hope you can help me. I was married to my first husband for 20 years. He died a long time ago. After quite a while living alone, I finally met another man. We lived together as husband and wife for 15 years. But then I learned he was married all that time to another woman. After I found out, he divorced this other woman and then married me. However, he died just four months after our marriage. Am I due any of this Social Security?

Let’s start with two easy issues. 1) You didn’t mention if you have your own Social Security. If you do, nothing involved with any “husbands” keeps you from getting your own Social Security. 2) You would be due widow’s benefits from your first husband’s record. Now for the more difficult issue of whether or not you might be due benefits from, oh well, let’s call him Mr. Bigamy, or Mr. B! Social Security rules generally say a marriage must last 9 months to be valid (unless he died from accidental causes). So Mr. B’s four month legal marriage to you will get you nowhere with Social Security. However, we can fall back on a possible commonlaw marriage for those 15 years you were together. Social Security follows state laws on these matters. So if you were living in a state that recognizes common-law marriage, then Social Security will recognize it. But of course we have that little issue that he was married to someone else while you guys were living together. Social Security law does have a “good faith” clause. That rule essentially says that if you entered into this relationship truly believing that Mr. B was unmarried, then your common-law marriage to him can be considered valid. Each of these issues (the 9 month rule, commonlaw marriage and the good faith clause) has some “ifs, ands or buts” associated with it. So the bottom line is you will just have to sit down with someone at your local Social Security office to go over all these messy marital matters. * * *

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It sounds like you need a good lawyer, not a Social Security guy. But since you asked, I’ll address your question. As a general rule, Social Security benefits can only be garnished to collect back taxes or to collect past due child support. So I’m afraid you won’t be able to “attach” his Social Security. I normally don’t want to wish ill on any person. But I might make an exception in your husband’s case. Let’s hope that he drops dead! That’s the only way you will be able to touch his Social Security, by collecting widow’s benefits on his account. * * *

After almost 40 years of marriage, my husband left me for a much younger and prettier woman. We’re still married, and I don’t plan to give him a divorce because I want to get back at him by collecting his Social Security. He’s 62 but says he doesn’t plan to file for Social Security until he is 70. He would never let me work outside the home, so I don’t have my own Social Security. I am also 62. How will I be able to get the spousal benefits I’m due if he refuses to sign up for Social Security?

then once he is legally out of your hair, contact your local Social Security office. And as mentioned in the answer to the previous question, go ahead and wish some ill will on Mr. Wonderful. Maybe the excitement of being with that “much younger and prettier woman” will cause him to have a heart attack and die. Then you will be eligible for much higher divorced widow’s benefits on his account. If you have a Social Security question, Tom Margenau has the answer. Contact him at thomas.margenau@ comcast.net. To find out more about Tom Margenau and to read past columns and see features from other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com. COPYRIGHT 2013 CREATORS.COM

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ANTIQUE -- OR -JUNQUE by Anne McCollam Creators News Service

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How often do you hit a great approach shot in their close to the hole only to gag the putt? Yes, you heard me. The heart is pounding, the nerves are bouncing like ping pong balls through your body. And your hands get stone cold and you choke! The key to making more putts, especially the short ones you know you should make. The ones that would cut your handicap in half if you could only sneak them in somehow, is to keep the hands moving through the ball to the hole. When setting up for a putt, we setup in reference to our path to the target known as the target line. Set up to the ball with your feet square or slightly open to the target line, this will allow your body to be angled slightly towards the target to create the sensation in the stroke of pushing or underhand tossing the ball along the path to the hole. The ball is positioned on the instep of the left foot. This will create a slightly upward motion in the stroke to get the ball rolling smoothly on the putting surface. As the ball is positioned on the left foot instep, have your hands slightly forward, in relation to the putter face, so that the top of the grip is level with the front of the ball. Stroke Through to Your Finish Line to Make Putts Since your goal in the putting stroke is to swing the putter straight back and through along the target line, setting up to theshot ball in sotheir your close eyes are How often do you hit a great approach to directly over the ball will help you thatheart goal. visually the hole only to gag the putt? Yes, you heardachieve me. The make the stroke. I want you to imagine a is pounding, the nerves are bouncingNow likeyou’re pingready pongto balls “finish line” approximately through your body. And your hands get stone cold and you one foot in front of your ball, on line with your target. The key to making putts is to have the hands choke! and the putter face move together in the forward stroke, at The key to making more putts, especially the short ones you the same speed, to that “finish line.” know you should make. The ones The thatreason wouldwhycut so your many golfers miss hit these putts is that handicap in half if you could only sneak them somehow, is probably to be a spectator and see they stopinjust after impact, to keep the hands moving through the ball to the the ball hole.is going. Do not react to making contact with where ball and keep your hands and putter face moving together When setting up for a putt, we setup inthe reference to our path your to the target known as the target line. to Set up“finish to theline”. ball with

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your feet square or slightly open to the target line, this will Rob Stanger is recognized as a 2005-08 Golf Magazine Top Teacher allow your body to be angled slightlyWest towards theHetarget to at The College Golf Center. You can Region. teaches create the sensation in the stroke of contact pushing himor at underhand 760-409-8628 or at www.robstanger.com for inquiries about your golf. tossing the ball along the path to the hole. The ball is positioned on the instep of the left foot. This will create a slightly upward motion in the stroke to get the ball rolling smoothly on the putting surface. As the ball is positioned on the left foot instep, have your hands slightly forward, in relation to the putter face, so that the top of the grip is level with the front of the ball. Images created through JCvideo.com software Since your goal in the putting stroke is to swing the putter straight back and through along the target line, setting up to the ball so your eyes are directly over the ball will help you visually achieve that goal. Now you’re ready to make the stroke. I want you to imagine a “finish line” approximately one foot in front of your ball, on line with your target. The key to making putts is to have the hands and the putter face move together in the forward stroke, at the same speed, to that “finish line.” The reason why so many golfers miss hit these putts is that they stop just after impact, probably to be a spectator and see where the ball is going. Do not react to making contact with the ball and keep your hands and putter face moving together to your “finish line”.

ing your eyes directly over the ball will help you visually achieve this goal. Now imagine a “finish line” along that target line about a foot ahead of the ball. That’s where you want both your hands and the putter face to finish in your swing. The Rob Stanger is recognized as a making 2005-08 Golf Magazine Top Teacher key to putts is to have your hands and the club West Region. He teaches at The College Golf Center. You can contact him at 760-409-8628 or at www.robstanger.com for inquiries face move together in the stroke, at the same speed, all about your golf. the way through. The reason so many golfers gag these putts is because they halt their stroke just after impact and lose the all-important effect of proper follow through with hands and putter face at the “finish line”.

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