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Russ Johnson, the varsity baseball team's slugging first basemen, belted a double and a home run yesterday to drive in four runs and pace his mates to a well-earned 5 to 4 victory over M.I.T. on Briggs Field...
John Robert Mize, one of the biggest and one of the best first basemen in National League history, left the major leagues yesterday. He hit .320 in 11 years with the St. Louis Cardinals and the New York Giants. On August 23 last year, the Giants waived him out of the league and sold him up the river (Harlem) to the Yankees. He played in only 13 games for the Yanks, mostly as a pinch-hitter, but he got into his first World Series. He pinch hit twice, in two games, hit two singles, and batted in two runs...
...getting down to a 25-player roster, Manager Casey Stengel obtained waivers on the Big Cat. Today he picks up a minor league career which ceased over 15 years ago. He will play for Kansas City, the Yanks' American Association (Class AAA) farm club. The Yankees, short of first basemen, have kept him on 24-hour recall...
...program lists six first basemen, but the two leading contenders are not native first sackers. Captain John Caulfield and Jim Kenary are converted outfielders who seem to be learning their way around pretty quickly. Caulfield played a little first base for fun back at Cambridge Latin, and Kenary throws righty...
Tommy Henrich and Stan Musial, at the moment baseball's leading indispensable men, are alike in temperament and talent-except that Musial cannot sing.* Both are southpaws. Both are versatile outfielders, who have filled in at first base in emergencies (and forthwith won rank among the best first-basemen in their leagues). Unlike many other stars, they are specially distinguished by players and sportwriters as "old pros," team players without ego or flamboyance...