1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,000 This is RetroSports Radio. Visit RetroSeasons.com for more sports history. 2 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:09,000 Welcome to Leo DeRosier. 3 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:14,000 Chimney Sweep, America's number one such destroyer, presents the famous fiery manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, 4 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:19,000 Leo DeRosier, and a sparkling new 15 minute program, your sports question box. 5 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:25,000 You send in the questions, any question on any sport or game, and Leo answers it. 6 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:30,000 Every question used, Chimney Sweep, such destroyer, pays the sender $5, 7 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:37,000 and the question considered by Leo, the most interesting, nets the sender $50, compliments of Chimney Sweep. 8 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:42,000 Send in your question tonight. All questions become the property of Chimney Sweep. 9 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:48,000 And here's the masterminding manager of those dashing, slam bang Brooklyn Dodgers, Leo DeRosier. 10 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:52,000 Hi ya folks, hello to all of you. Boy, what a wonderful world. It's sure great to be alive. 11 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:55,000 Leo, this from you? Why I thought this is... 12 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:59,000 I know what you thought, Frank. I know what everybody thought, but this is the new DeRosier. 13 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:04,000 Everybody's friend, not mad at anyone. Yes, sir, Frank, you're looking at gentlemen Leo DeRosier. 14 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:06,000 This I gotta hear. 15 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:07,000 You and me both, Frank. 16 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:09,000 Well, just keep your ears open, both of you. 17 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:10,000 Oh, that's more like it. 18 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:15,000 Yeah, now we can start the show. The first question comes from H.A. Brown of Cleveland, Ohio. 19 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:16,000 Mr. Brown was an umpire. 20 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:21,000 Never heard of him, and if I never heard of him, he's no umpire. You're so touchy, Leo. 21 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:28,000 I'm sure DeRosier can, remember? It seems, Leo, that Mr. Brown acted as umpire during a schoolboy game one day last summer. 22 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:29,000 He wants some advice from you. 23 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:33,000 This must be the end of the world, an umpire asking me for advice. 24 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:35,000 In any case, here's Mr. Brown's letter. 25 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:41,000 One day last summer, I was acting as umpire of a baseball game between two local Chews Up Schoolboy teams. 26 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:43,000 The Die Hards and the Murderers. 27 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:45,000 What names those kids can dream up? 28 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:50,000 Right. A member of the Die Hards hit a home run, but in circling the bases, he failed to touch second. 29 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:55,000 After he completed the circuit, I ruled him out for this omission. The captain of the Die Hards was mad as a hornet. 30 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:57,000 That's not very mad in Brooklyn. 31 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:06,000 The captain said I had no right to call the missed base to the scorer's attention unless some member of the opposing team, that is the Murderers, had first called it to my attention. 32 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:10,000 What he actually said was, I should have kept my big mouth shut. 33 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:16,000 Ah, there's a kid after my own heart. Find out his name, Frank, and tell him there's a job waiting for him on the Dodgers when he grows up. 34 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:18,000 I suppose you'd use him as a pinched beef, are you, Leo? 35 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:23,000 Well, how else, Frank? I can just hear the announcer saying, so-and-so now screaming for derosier. 36 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:25,000 Yes, sir, I can use that lad. 37 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:27,000 And now, how about a ruling on the play? 38 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:31,000 Well, the captain of the Die Hards was absolutely right. The umpires should have kept quiet. 39 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:36,000 In a baseball game, every player is supposed to be wide awake and on his toes every minute of the game. 40 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:44,000 If they're not interested enough in their opponent's mistakes to catch them, then like the captain of the Die Hards said, the umpire should have kept his big mouth shut. 41 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:48,000 And the run should have counted. $5 for Mr. Brown. 42 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:53,000 Mary Wallace of Oceanside, California wants you to tell her the distance of the longest swim on record. 43 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:56,000 And jumping right out of the pool with the answer, Frank, here it is. 44 00:02:56,000 --> 00:03:06,000 Back in February 1935, Pedro Candisti swam 281 miles between Santa Fe and Surrey in the waters of the Pareña River in Argentine South America. 45 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:08,000 You sound like you were right there, Leo. 46 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:12,000 Me? I'm rowing the boat for the kid and handing him out hot coffee and axle grease. Next? 47 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:17,000 Well, now if the lift will give me a chance, I've got a few facts and figures that will prove interesting to every homemaker. 48 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:24,000 When your heating bills run high at the temperature of your house, stays low, folks, get rid of that soot in your furnace. 49 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:29,000 Soot wastes fuel, steels heat. 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We'll get the personal troubles later. 64 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:43,000 Well, I'm trying to tell you the guy didn't have a name. 65 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:45,000 Oh, come, come, Leo. Everybody has a name. 66 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:51,000 Well, this guy didn't, see? Ernest there who wrote the poem never gave him a name. He's baseball's unknown man. 67 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:55,000 Well, if you can't give Mr. Chavizi the pitcher's name, maybe you'd like to recite the poem for him. 68 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:59,000 Oh, sure. It only runs 13 stanzas and we got all the time in the world. 69 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:02,000 Well, how about the finale then, the last stanza? 70 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:08,000 Oh, boy. Well, Mr. Ricky hears this. D'Rosier reciting poetry. But here goes anything to please the customer. 71 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:12,000 Ladies and gentlemen, your attention please. 72 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:17,000 We now present Mr. Leo D'Rosier, manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team, 73 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:24,000 and a heartwarming rendition of the final stanza of that greatest of all baseball poems, Casey at the Bat. 74 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:26,000 Mr. D'Rosier. 75 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:30,000 Oh, somewhere in this favorite land, the sun is shining bright. 76 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:35,000 The band is playing somewhere and somewhere hearts are light, and somewhere men are laughing, 77 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:42,000 and somewhere children shout, but there is no joy in Mudville. Mighty Casey had struck out. 78 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:45,000 Beautiful, Leo. Beautiful. Didn't you think so, Ken? 79 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:49,000 Superb, Frank. Superb. Don't remember when I've heard anything so moving. 80 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:52,000 Very funny. Next question right now. 81 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:57,000 From Mort Blumberg of Washington, what's the highest speed ever made in an automobile? 82 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:00,000 Well, of course, since Mr. Ricky gave the boys those cars at the end of the season, 83 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:03,000 there may have been a whole lot of new records made. 84 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:09,000 But the last official automobile time was set by John R. Cobb on August 23, 1939, 85 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:16,000 in two one-mile runs over the Bonville Salt Flats, Cobb averaged 369.7 miles per hour. 86 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:17,000 Say, that ain't coasting. 87 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:18,000 $5 to Mr. Blumberg. 88 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:20,000 And that ain't hay. 89 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:23,000 Now, Leo, I have a man from Havana. 90 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:25,000 You sound like Dr. I. Q. 91 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:27,000 That's who I meant to sound like. Glad you guessed it. 92 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:30,000 Well, wonderful to be on the mic with a guy who thinks he's a mimic. 93 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:32,000 Okay, what does the Havana gent want to know? 94 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:35,000 On what sport do Americans spend the most money each year? 95 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:37,000 The answer is fishing. 96 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:43,000 Pre-war figures show that Americans spent about $1 billion, $200 million a year on their rods and reels. 97 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:48,000 Hunting was in second place with an annual outlay of some $650 million. 98 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:52,000 Golfers laid another $600 million on the line for the love of that game. 99 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:56,000 Motor boarding was fourth with about the same amount as in golf. 100 00:06:56,000 --> 00:07:00,000 And bowling was fifth with the cash registers ringing up $450 million. 101 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:06,000 And what about the so-called attendance sports, football, baseball, basketball games, crack meets, that sort of thing? 102 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:07,000 Way down the line, Frank. 103 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:13,000 Sports fans spent only a measly $260 million on paid admissions to sporting contests, 104 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:17,000 according to the most recent figures, just chicken feet. 105 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:21,000 Yeah, does Mr. Ricky know that you consider $260 million chicken feet? 106 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:23,000 He never asked me, so I never told him. 107 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:24,000 And don't you? 108 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:26,000 You're right there with all the answers today, Leo. 109 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:29,000 Well, you know I'm beginning to believe what those umps say about me. 110 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:30,000 Yeah, what's that? 111 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:32,000 Derosha knows the answer to everything. 112 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:33,000 Oh, you do, eh? 113 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:35,000 Well, grab hold of this one. 114 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:40,000 Each week, sports fans, we dream up one question that the lip hasn't heard about in advance. 115 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:44,000 Today, the question is on a subject dear to Leo's heart, baseball. 116 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:45,000 Here it is. 117 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:46,000 Well, far away, Frank. 118 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:47,000 Here's the situation, Leo. 119 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:51,000 The first batter up hits a foul fly which the catcher catches. 120 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:54,000 The batter still goes to first base. 121 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:58,000 Well, the only thing I can see there is that the catcher in the field with the hitter, 122 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:00,000 in other words, tipped his back. 123 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:01,000 That's right. 124 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:06,000 Now, the next hitter up hits a long fly to center field, which is also caught. 125 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:07,000 The man on first scores. 126 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:09,000 How do you explain it? 127 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:12,000 Hits a long fly to center field, which is caught. 128 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:13,000 Right. 129 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:15,000 The center fielder held the ball. 130 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:16,000 Right? 131 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:19,000 There was no wild throws after he threw it back into the infield. 132 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:20,000 No, nothing of that. 133 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:22,000 I give up. 134 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:25,000 The center fielder sees that the ball is going over his head. 135 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:31,000 He leaps for the ball and in so doing loses his glove, which hits and stops the ball in flight. 136 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:34,000 The ball drops down into his bare hands. 137 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:40,000 A piece of equipment interfering with the ball in flight carries with it a free base penalty. 138 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:44,000 Honey, in 20 years I've been in this game, I've never seen it happen. 139 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:47,000 I got guys in the Brooklyn Club can't even catch it with a glove on. 140 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:49,000 You got them catching it with it off. 141 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:52,000 Okay, Leo, let's get back to the customers and their question. 142 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:54,000 Where'd you dig the last one up? 143 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:57,000 Oh, I've become something of a student of the game these last few weeks. 144 00:08:57,000 --> 00:09:01,000 Well, he's up on your homework, or I won't be able to look at my own players next year. 145 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:04,000 I'll have one of those surprise items for you every week, Leo. 146 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:07,000 Just to let the customers see how you think on your feet. 147 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:08,000 My pal. 148 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:11,000 Now back to the show and a question from R.M. Bell of Las Vegas, Nevada. 149 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:12,000 It's about cards. 150 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:14,000 Why doesn't he write the St. Louis papers? 151 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:18,000 His question has to do with playing cards, not the Cardinals' baseball club. 152 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:24,000 Mr. Bell wants you to tell him who is supposed to be represented by the four kings in a deck of ordinary playing cards. 153 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:26,000 Why, this is a royal cinch. 154 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:30,000 The four kings are supposed to be four real kings of olden times. 155 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:34,000 They're David, Alexander, Caesar, and Charlemagne. 156 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:35,000 Next. 157 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:37,000 And now we come to the most interesting question of the week. 158 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:41,000 In baseball, what is the record for consecutive scoreless innings? 159 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:45,000 Just a minute, Leo. 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Atkins of Westerly, Rhode Island. 177 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:09,000 Mrs. Atkins writes, in reading about that 19-inning scoreless tie between the dodges and the red. 178 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:11,000 Well, I guess I'll never hear the end of that one. 179 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:16,000 And if Mrs. Atkins wants to know why we didn't win, tell her we're only human. 180 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:17,000 Well, that isn't what she wants to know. 181 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:22,000 She says newspaper reports of the game refer to it as the longest scoreless tie on record, 182 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:29,000 but then went on to point out that more scoreless innings had been played in a game between the pirates and the Braves back in 1918. 183 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:36,000 Well, that's right. It was on August 1, 1918, that the pirates beat the Braves in the 21st inning when they scored two runs. 184 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:38,000 The only scoring of the game. 185 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:43,000 So that pirate-brave game actually ran 20 scoreless innings before a run crossed the plate. 186 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:46,000 Mrs. Atkins knows all that, Ken. Here's what she wants to know. 187 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:50,000 Was the record for scoreless innings made in that pirate-brave duel? 188 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:54,000 No, it wasn't. And a funny thing is none of the sports writers mentioned the real record game. 189 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:58,000 Back in 1893, Washington and St. Louis played, and here's what happened. 190 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:02,000 On August 27th, the teams went 12 innings without a run. 191 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:04,000 Play was suspended on account of darkness. 192 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:10,000 When the game was resumed on August 28th, another 14 innings passed with nothing but gooseache. 193 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:12,000 Yeah, but wasn't the same game. 194 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:16,000 I wasn't there, Frank, but the official scores marked it down as a single game. 195 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:20,000 It lasted 27 innings, and the first 26 of them were scoreless. 196 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:24,000 Incidentally, Washington won the game in the 27th inning. 197 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:25,000 By what score? 198 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:28,000 1 to nothing, I hope. What do you mean, you hope? 199 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:32,000 What difference does it make? Washington won, and that's enough for any ball clip to know. 200 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:34,000 Let's get on to the next question. 201 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:37,000 First off, congratulations and a check for $50 to Mrs. Atkins. 202 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:41,000 And that's all for today, Leo. I want a few seconds to tell the fans how to send in their questions. 203 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:44,000 You know, folks, this is your sports question box. 204 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:48,000 You send in the questions, any question, on any sport or any card game. 205 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:52,000 For every question used on any program, we'll mail the sender $5. 206 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:56,000 But that's not all. If your question is judged most interesting of the week, 207 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:58,000 we'll mail you a check for $50. 208 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:03,000 Just write your question on a plain piece of paper, and be sure to include your name and address. 209 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:09,000 Mail to Leo DeRosier, American Broadcasting Company, New York City, 20, New York. 210 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:15,000 This is Leo DeRosier saying, see you next week, same time, same station. 211 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:20,000 One hour'll be back for Chimney's Week with more answers to your sports question box. 212 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:26,000 Meantime, remember, in life, as in baseball, a sacrifice never hurts your batting average. 213 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:30,000 Friends, don't let soot in your heating plant. 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