Your neighborhood technical service session

Welcome to you to this double-hatter baseball broadcast brought to you direct from Kaminsky Park

by permission of the Chicago White Sox and the Boston Red Sox to stimulate interest in our national games and in your local team.

And now out to Comtesky Park and Hal Totten, who's going to give us some inside information on today's games right from the playing field.

Take it, Hal Totten.

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.

Good afternoon from Kermiske Park, the home of the White Sox, Chicago, where the Whitechalks and Boston Red Sox are concluding their present four-game series with a doubleheader this afternoon, with at least 30,000 people already in the park, and some more coming on. Young lady's been taking pictures all week here of ball players, and as each one goes through, you have to sign up now, sign his own picture. She's going to have quite a collection once you get through. Is he done it right across the state? No, not quite. This afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, it's another one of those days that, well, we haven't got that. All right, Lucius. Take care of that fellow half-legs for me. Well, he's in the way. Clear sunshine and hot, a little warmer. It hasn't been the past, and the wind is a little unsteady.

One minute is from the north, next minute in the east, next minute in the south, and you never know just what's going to come next.

This afternoon, I really haven't arranged anything here.

I'm going to sort of take this fellow with very little warning, because he just happens to be sitting right here,

taking a look at the field, resting up after one of the best pitching jobs we've seen all year yesterday. And that's Bill Dietzik, a young man who was new to the white socks in a white socks uniform, but who has given him many bad moments in other uniforms in the last couple of years. And Bill, if you don't mind, as I say, this is sort of without warning. Would you say a word or two and I ask you a couple questions? I sure will. I'd like to know this for how long you've been in the league. Did you go right, start right into the age? Yeah, I started in 31. I was formed down three years. I had 31, 32, and 33. I was with 35, I was with the athletics, and then I, this is my third change this year already. Well, see, you were at the athletics, and then where'd you go there? Washington. I went to watch. I was only there about 18 days, and I was sent here. All I see. And how do you like to change? Oh, this is the greatest thing that ever happened to me. I've wanted to come here to be with Jimmy for two or three years and never been able to do it, and I was sure pleased when I did get the chance to come here. Then you pull us around the circuit really feel the way about family about Jim, the fans here. Is that right? Well, he's the greatest fell in the game today to me and most of the boys who play for him. Well, I think the fans would be glad to hear that. We felt that way, but it's very hard sometimes to get ball players to say that right up in so many words, especially those that have been here any length of time. Well, Bill, when you were with the, where did you come from through the A's? Did you come out of school? High school, yeah. I graduated from high school in 30rd. In Philly? Coldosk. And then I'm not right with them. And now you're with a white stock. You really think that you've got the club you like to be with. I finally got here, yeah. Been trying for three years and trying for three years and finally made it.

Well, outside of the fact that Jim's such a great fellow to be around, what's the

attraction to this ball club out here?

You've got a swell bunch of wall players and I think within the next two years they're

going to be a very dangerous tenant contender and I think with the muddy rule who has helped me tremendously since I've been here and with a catching of stool who I think is the best receiver in the league I think it's a great and a bit of encouraging for a young pitcher to come here and pitch.

We'll do with you out there in the bullpen. I saw him when you first came to the club and I suppose you did it on the road too. I see him take you out there in the bullpen and work with you sometimes three or four innings. Yeah, he really tears you apart. He tells you every bad force you got. And no matter what kind of a game you pitch, the next day he'll call you aside and tell you how really terrible you were. In other words, you might win, but he lets you know that you're lucky in some respect. That's the idea. You don't get a little bit smart. Do any changing with you because I know before you came here, your control was supposed to be a little bad. Well, he found it the first day I was here. He found out that I was gripping the ball very tightly, and he made me loosen up my grip,

and I don't know.

I can't say yet because I've only been in these two games, but I think that that might have been the cause of my trouble all along.

You seem to feel easier out there now.

I notice that you're not trying to steer the ball anymore at all.

You're just throwing it.

It feels great.

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