Publisher's Letter, Jul. 11, 1955

Dear TIME-Reader:

WHEN Dallas Bureau Chief Frank McCulloch was a bush-league pitcher before World War II, he often daydreamed of sitting on the St. Louis Cardinals' bench and hearing the manager say: "Frank, we need this one for the pennant—go in and win it."

One game he pitched for the Verdi (Nev.) Ramblers against the Fallen (Nev.) Merchants in the Sierra Nevada League he will never forget. Verdi's starting pitcher walked the first three men up. "Then they took him out for wildness and put me in," Frank recalls. Frank's best pitch in...

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