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...always coming up from Richmond) came Rookie Pitcher Mel Stottlemyre, 22, to win nine crucial games, including the eleventh in the Yank streak, a two-hit shutout during which he personally outdid Washington batsmen with five singles, two R.B.I.s. Over from Cleveland came Pedro Ramos, the Cuban "palm-bailer," meaning spit-bailer: he won one game and saved five others-including two against Cleveland last week...
...could ill afford to lose when they traded Slugger Frank Thomas to the Cincinnati Reds. In the winter trading, the Giants picked up two established starting pitchers: Jack Sanford, 29, who won 19 games for Philadelphia two years ago, and aging (33) Sam ("Toothpick") Jones, a hard-throwing curve-bailer who led the league last year in strike-outs (225), was second in earned-run average (2.88), managed a 14-13 record for a St. Louis team that scored fewest runs in the league. With Lefthanders Johnny Antonelli (16-13 last year) and Mike McCormick (11-8), and slow-balling...
Ever since Cleveland's Pitcher Bob Feller burst on the baseball scene 18 years ago as "the fastest man since Walter Johnson," baseball scouts have combed the bushes and sandlots looking for another speed-bailer. "Faster than Feller" became the standard label for any strong-armed busher with speed, and since "Rapid Robert's" heyday, countless youngsters have been called "another Feller." None has managed to live up to his press clippings. But last week baseball men were finally convinced that another Feller had arrived in the person of burly (6 ft. 2 in., 207 Ibs.) Robert...
Dodgers: Second Baseman Robinson, who is currently smacking the ball at a .415 cleanup clip (and last week drew a sharp rebuke from League President Ford Frick for "popping off" to umpires); Fire-bailer Don Newcombe, ace of the Dodger pitching staff, who won 19 games last year; Catcher Roy Campanella, best in the National League (he caught all 14 innings of 1950's All-Star game); Pitcher Dan Bankhead...
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...