Word: bailer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Feller (with one victory against six de feats) was not the only Cleveland base-bailer who was having trouble. For a while it seemed that most of the other Indians, spectacular world champions of 1948, were turning up their toes. After they had lost 17 of their first 29 games, the club's publicity-minded president, Bill Veeck, announced that they were going to start the season all over again. There was a mock flag-raising ceremony and the gag snapped some life into the weary Indians. Then the club slumped again; its hitting was sadly...
Bartok: Sonata No. I (Adolph Bailer, piano; Yehudi Menuhin, violin; Victor, 8 sides). Composed in 1921, when Bartok's own distinctive style was first beginning to take form, the sonata foreshadows the lyric power and rhythmic force of the great Concerto for Violin (1938). In this performance, Bailer's piano overshadows Menuhin's violin. Recording: fair...
Silent Bats. It went on like that for four days: good pitching and terrible hitting. Cleveland's brilliant southpaw Rookie Gene Bearden, shutting out the Braves (2-0), only twice let the count go to three balls on any Boston batter. Knuckle-bailer Steve Gromek, who out-pitched Sain in the fourth game (2-1), gave only one base on balls. The 1948 World Series was in danger of being remembered only for precision pitching. Grantland Rice called it the Series of silent bats. Disgusted fans and sportwriters complained that it was the dullest World Series in memory. What...
...13th home run (in 78 games since his Army discharge) finally clinched the American League pennant for the Detroit Tigers, on the last day of the season. The 6-to-3 win over the St. Louis Browns was No. 25 for Lefty Hal Newhouser, who had relieved fast-bailer Virgil ("Fire") Trucks, fresh out of Navy blues...
Last week, Owner Perini stole off to St. Louis, and quietly swung baseball's biggest deal in four years: for one mediocre pitcher and an estimated $50,000 in cash, he bought the Cardinals' temperamental fork-bailer Morton Cooper (his seven-year big-league record: 106 won, 60 lost). That ended Cooper's six-week salary squabble with the penny-pinching Cardinals, and it might even boost the Braves into the first division for the first time in eleven years...