660     October 10, 1966 (Taped same day)
Betsy, Bill, Bess, Henry

Edward Cole from Chicago and Ronnie Munn from Amarillo, Texas: “We play volleyball on a trampoline”                 
Cole and Munn are promoting a new game they call “space ball” which is, in fact, played on a set of trampolines but bears only a passing resemblance to volleyball.  The one-on-one game involves passing a ball through a cylinder high above the playfield.  You score if your opponent fails to catch the ball.  The game didn’t gain much traction in the sixties, but never completely went away.  A version of it is on the market today.   


Bertha Tickey from West Haven, Connecticut: “I pitch for the company’s softball team…I’ve pitched more than 150 no-hitters”                 Tickey works as a secretary for the Raybestos brake company in Connecticut but her passion and avocation is fast-pitch softball. Tickey hurled for the “Brakettes” for decades, amassing numerous records and national championships in the Amateur Softball Association.  She would retire in 1968 with a lifetime record of 757 wins and 88 losses, including 162 no-hitters.  In 1972 she would be inducted into the National Softball Hall of Fame.  Now known as the Connecticut Brakettes, the team she played for is still active in the ASA.   

Special guest John Gary will play a duet with Steve, but: “I’ll play my part of the duet with a bow and arrow” 
Gary is a singer and recording artist, mostly of pop standards.  Though not as well remembered today as some of his easy-listening contemporaries, the likeable performer was a popular guest star on TV talk and variety shows of the sixties, and in 1966 hosted his own summer replacement series.  Here, he duets on “Do-Re-Mi” (1959) by firing at targets representing the notes of the scale, while Steve fills in the melody on piano.  Gary is performing in the Persian Room of the New York Plaza Hotel.

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