Ben Chapman is a man with plenty of bounce; he is also too lucky and too versatile to be kept down for long. After twelve stormy years in the major leagues as infielder, outfielder, champion base-stealer, he became manager of the Richmond Colts in the Piedmont League. There he distinguished himself by getting thrown out of baseball for a year for slugging an umpire. Last year he came back as a pitcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Last week, 14 days after being traded down the river to the hopeless Philadelphia Phillies, he became a...
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