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...Louis, Browns fans (home attendance this year: 311,000) reacted to fresh talk of the club's transfer to another city by belatedly crowding the ballpark, hanging Owner Bill Veeck in effigy. At week's end they heard that the Browns might not move after all; meeting in Manhattan, American League club owners rejected the most likely city, Baltimore, for the second time. ¶ In Boston, the Red Sox's Ted Williams, who returned from Korea too late to be considered for American League batting honors, still managed to hang up a personal record in 37 games...
...National League race this year. But when the Braves were moved to Milwaukee (TIME, March 30), they suddenly found that they were local celebrities instead of a Boston institution ranking with but after Fanueil Hall. The Milwaukee fans showered them with cheers and presents, and began to buy more ballpark tickets than any other fans in the league...
Help Wanted. That Mickey is now playing for New York is due partly to good Yankee organization, partly to good Yankee luck. Always conscious of the 67,000 seats in their Bronx ballpark, and of the fact that even their stars seldom shine for more than a dozen years, the New York club owners could well hang over Yankee Stadium the sign: HELP WANTED. In the late '40s they were sending the word down through their scouting and farmclub network (today: some 30 scouts, ten farm clubs) to find a new crop of infielders, outfielders, pitchers and catchers...
...Sardi's. When Tony Galento, the barrel-shaped bartender-turned-fighter, was flattened by Joe Louis, Cannon wired big (250 Ib.) Toots Shor: "Lay low. This is a bad night for fat saloonkeepers." Scarcely a day passes in season that Cannon doesn't go to the ballpark, fights or races. Once, after a well-wisher introduced him to an English duchess and told him that she had "married three titles," Cannon answered: "So what? So did Mrs. Henry Armstrong...
Most of Hatlo's crowded scenes are in an office or living room, but he is equally at home in the kitchen, ballpark or local hospital, where the best-looking nurses are always taking care of the patient with the bandage over his eyes. Hatlo has no trouble getting ideas; his readers send him 200 suggestions a week...