Dino Restelli is a rawboned young man (24) with powerful arms, bushy eyebrows and a sunny disposition. Like baseball's famed DiMaggio brothers, he comes from San Francisco's sandlots. A fortnight ago, upped to the majors from San Francisco of the Pacific Coast League, Dino pulled on a Pittsburgh Pirate uniform, got into the lineup as an outfielder and began cannonading the fences as few pea-green rookies ever had before.
His first home run, smacked from a wide-legged, right-handed stance, was a tremendous wallop that cleared Forbes Field's left-field fence by a good 75...
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