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Handling Bonds, 1930s-style.
It'd be fun to ask Babe Ruth what he thinks of Barry Bonds. As close as we'll come is to ask Elden Auker about the Babe.
Auker pitched to Ruth in the 1930s, first in 1933. A rookie with the Tigers, Auker came in from the bullpen at Yankee Stadium. Waiting to hit was the only big-league player he had heard of as a kid in Kansas. Babe Ruth. Not the myth, the man. "A man I needed to get out," Auker says. "I struck him out on four pitches."
Auker had hurt his shoulder playing football at Kansas A&M (now Kansas State). So the big man, 6 feet 2, 194 pounds, became a sidearm pitcher who often dipped so low as to come underhand, a delivery that prompted a Yankees coach to shout at him that day in '33.
"You got the Barn real upset," said that coach, Art Fletcher. "The Bam says he's been struck out plenty of times, but that's the first time he's ever been struck out by a damn girl."
They came to know each other off the field, the Bam and the damn girl. During winters, they played golf in Florida.
"Babe wouldn't care about Bonds," Auker says.
Why not?
- Turn back the clock: former pitcher Elden Auker fondly recalls his days in the...
- Magazine article from: Baseball Digest Tays, Alan May 1, 2003 700+ words
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...World sports editor. The subject is the late Elden Auker. At Kansas State College, Auker was all-Big Six in football, basketball and...timers like the straight-and-narrow, honest Elden Auker shook their heads derisively whenever his name...
- Journal-World, Lawrence, Kan., Tom Keegan column: World will miss Auker.
- Newspaper article from: Journal-World (Lawrence, Kansas) August 14, 2006 700+ words
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- Newspaper article from: Sarasota Herald Tribune July 11, 2002 700+ words
...anderson@heraldtribune.com Eldon Auker was a close friend of Ted Williams for...spoke over the phone once a week, with Auker usually calling Williams on Sunday mornings at 10:30. The 91-year-old Auker last talked to Williams two days before...
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- Magazine article from: Idaho Business Review, Boise May 19, 2008 700+ words
...constructed by Meridian-based developer Ron Van Auker. It's organic, internal growth that...growth we're getting, he said. Van Auker continues to build for a Boise-area industrial...more than 30,000 square feet that Van Auker finished recently near the intersection...
- Van Auker takes on ex-Eddy's bakery in Boise.
- Magazine article from: Idaho Business Review, Boise August 15, 2005 700+ words
...operations in May 2003. Developer Ron Van Auker purchased the building, near Emerald Street...suitable for one to three tenants, Van Auker said. His firm will target food producers...s lease ends two years from now, Van Auker said. The store and other outlets in the...
- Moving Up: Charlotte Jennings, Jane Watson, Adam Ryan, Kirsty Auker - SP...
- Magazine article from: Promotions & Incentives September 30, 2004 700+ words
SP Partnerships has recruited Charlotte Jennings and Jane Watson as promotion managers, and both Adam Ryan and Kirsty Auker as promotion executives.
- Obituaries in the News.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire August 5, 2006 700+ words
(From AP Online) Byline: JEROME PUGMIRE Elden Auker NEW YORK (AP) _ Elden Auker, a submarine-style pitcher who struck out Babe Ruth, faced Dizzy Dean and helped the Detroit Tigers...
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- Newspaper article from: South Florida Sun-Sentinel (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) August 15, 2002 700+ words
...hitless going into his final at-bat against Elden Auker of the St. Louis Browns. Having already retired DiMaggio three times, Auker was four balls from extinguishing the streak. The way Auker saw it, he was three strikes from giving...
- With Barry Bonds' hot hitting, will anyone pitch to him.(South Florida...
- News wire article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Rodriguez, Juan C. August 17, 2002 700+ words
...hitless going into his final at-bat against Elden Auker of the St. Louis Browns. Having already retired DiMaggio three times, Auker was four balls from extinguishing the streak. The way Auker saw it, he was three strikes from giving...
