Ozark Ike

Ozark Ike was a newspaper comic strip created by Ray Gotto in 1945. Gotto left the strip in 1954, but the strip itself continued until 1959.

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Who hit a foul ball to just miss the fifth home run in a single baseball game? "Ozark Ike" McBatt, the greatest baseball player of all times. This comic strip placed its hero somewhere between the real-life Shoeless Joe Jackson and comic-strip favorites, heavyweight champ Joe Palooka and Lil Abner.

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"Ozark Ike" was later used as the nickname for baseball player Ralph McPherran Kiner.

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Baseball: Baseball is a team sport, a bat-and-ball game, in which a hard, fist-sized ball is thrown by a defensive player called a pitcher, and an offensive player called a batter attempts to hit it with a tapered, cylindrical, smooth stick called a bat. The ball itself is also called a baseball. Scoring is a...

Ozark Ike related Images and Photos (experimental)

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