Dizzy Trout shows kids how to
throw the curve ball
My father took me to Palmer Park in Detroit to see former Detroit Tigers
pitcher Dizzy Trout demonstrate various ways of holding the ball for different
effects, using a giant
plastic hand.
I wanted to have Dizzy autograph my pictures, and Pop reminded me that
first we'd have to get them developed. These are the earliest surviving
pix from my Brownie Hawkeye camera.
21 years later I went to a Tigers game, July 1, 1978, and the pitcher
for the White Sox was Steve Trout, making his major league debut, and
by coincidence the people in the seats next to me were Dizzy Trout's widow
and daughter. Steve pitched well for three or four innings, then was knocked
out of the game, and the Trout women departed, weeping.
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