European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 02, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Sports scene a a smiling Catfish soaks his cum after the big game. Series o photos at right shoves the pitching of another of the a s pitchers was serving pm up. I guess he must have thrown eight or 10 pitches to me but Only two were strikes says the 22-year-old was t getting pm Over so i was t swinging. Next thing i knew Bob Kennedy came Over and said get outta there. Pitchers Ain t supposed Tobe hitters anyway " Bob Kennedy manages the Oakland a and when the manager tells you something you do it. Catfish Hunter go tout of there. But it teed him off some , it did get me keyed up says the big boned Well put together right hander from Hertford n.c., who now ranks As Only one of 10 men Ever to pitch a perfect game in the majors. As soon As he told me that i went into the clubhouse and walked into the Trainer s room. No one was there an they have a Little bed in there. So i Lay Down and 1 said to myself i know i m pretty Good hitter and i la just have to show him i can showed Kennedy All right. Hunter who ran away from Home atthe age of 6 and was found near a canal where he had caught two Catfish thus his nickname says he likes to hit As much As he likes to Bob Kennedy is about convinced. He does t intend running Hunter out of the batting Cage anymore. As a matter of fact if Catfish keeps pitching this Way they re going to let him have All the batting practice he wants. The last Ball Catfish threw in the big game is the one he says hell keep la never get this Ball he said when asked if he would donate it to the Hall of Fame. Any extra Money including a $5,000contract boost by a s owner Charles Finley will go toward Purchase of farm perhaps a 300-acre spread his 34 year old brother Marvin runs 60 mile South of Norfolk a. Hunter full of Cheek with Sandy hair and carrying 195 pounds on a 6-foot Frame made All state As a football end and linebacker and ran the 440 in High is the youngest of four boys of or. And mrs. Abbott signed a $60,000 Bonus in 1964 but missed the season after one of his Broth ers accidentally shot him in the right foot lodging Shotgun pellets in the foot and costing him his right toe my brother fainted but i was Al Light lie recalled i m just a farm boy he says. I vef armed All Ray life. But i la pitch As Long As 1 press dispatches the stars and stripes f sunday
