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‘Baseball Scoat Had a
Chance to Sign Up Castro
BALTIMORE <f» — Joe Cam
bria, the baseball scout who has
signed more thaa 500 youngsters
to professional contracts, wishes
he had latched on to just one
more.
If he had, Cambria may have
changed the international line
up
Fidel Castro, a right-handed
pitcher who since has been ac
cused of left-hpnded political
leanings, was rejected by Cam
bria in the mid-1940s.
“Castro had a good curve ball,
but not much of a fast ball,”
Cambria told Bill Tanton of the
Baltimore Evening Sun in an in
terview yesterday at Mercy Hos
pital, where the 71-year-old scout
for the Minnesota Twins under
went a physical checkup.
Cambria said the Cuban Prime
Minister had ambitions to be a
major league player.
“I think now I probably should
have signed him,” Joe said. “Back
In those days we used to feel a
pitcher had to be able to throw
hard to be worth signing. But
with the development of the
slider and more breaking stuff,
pitchers nowadays can sometimes
get by without a lot of speed.” t
Rhodesian Who Punched
Williams Receives Gifts
Of Money from Americans
PORT ELIZABETH, South
Africa UR — The Rhodesian who
punched G. Mennen Williams, the
U.S. Assistant Secretary for Afri
can Affairs, at Lusaka Airport
last August, has received about
2,000 pounds ($5,600), mostly
from Americans, his wife said in
a newspaper interview Wednes
day.
Stuart Finley-Bissett, 58, was
fined 50 pounds ($140) Sept. 12
for assaulting Williams.
Mrs. Finley-Bissett, who is
spending a vacation with her sis
ter here, said her husband re
ceived letters, currency and
checks from the United States to
pay his fine. He returned the
larger amounts to the senders and
kept small sums as souvenirs, she
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