Word: balle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Musial residence was,a lackluster frame house two doors from the home of Joe Barbao, a semi-pro pitcher who worked nights in the zinc mill. Joe played catch with the kid he called "the little left-hander," taught him how to hold a ball to throw a curve. It was Stan Musial's ambition to be another Lefty Grove...
Pasquel offered him $75,000 cash to sign (and double the salary he was getting with the Cardinals). Stan promptly made a date with Cardinal Owner Sam Breadon to say goodbye. But Eddie Dyer, in serious danger of becoming a manager without a ball club, saw Musial first. Stan stayed around, led the league with a .365 batting average, helped win the pennant and the World Series, was elected the league's most valuable player...
...Cardinal farm team at Williamson, W.Va., winning 15 games and losing 8. At Daytona Beach, Fla. the following year, he won 18 games and hit so well (.352) that he was used as an outfielder when he wasn't pitching. In a chase after a fly ball at Daytona, his career was set for him: he took a header and landed on his left shoulder. His throwing arm never felt the same after that. So Pitcher Musial, as Pitcher Babe Ruth did 22 years before him, became a full-time slugging outfielder...
Said one visitor from Los Angeles, who had managed to breakfast on a symphony concert, lunch on T. S. Eliot's new play, The Cocktail Party (see THEATER), and sup on Verdi's A Masked Ball: "I feel as if I had eaten too much plum pudding. But the awful thing is I want more...
...some visitors trudged through grey Edinburgh Castle and peered into ancient Holyrood House, others queued up for tickets for the Busch and Griller quartets and the festival favorite, The Three Estates (TIME, Sept. 20, 1948), the Glyndebourne operas (Mozart's COST fan Tutte, Verdi's A Masked Ball) were already sold out, except for the ?2 seats, which were too expensive for the British...