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Last season, at the advanced shortstop age of 32, the Scooter was still teaching himself a few new tricks. To get a little more power out of his 5-ft.-6-in. frame, he borrowed Heavyweight John Mize's big 36-oz. bat. It worked just fine; he finished the season with a .324 batting average, highest of his major-league career, and 50 extra-base hits...
...There were few times Saturday when a Crimson hall carrier did not have to clude or pull himself away from at least one tackler before reaching the line of scrimmage. Nor did the line provide Lowenstein with consistently good protection; twice, opposing linemen were able to reach up and bat down his passes...
Rookie Outfielder Gus Bell was the first Pirate to bat in the seventh. Maglie got two fast strikes past him, then fed him a low inside curve, "a pitch I had been getting Bell out with before." Bell fell away from the ball, swinging as he stepped back. He struck it on a looping arc toward the right-field foul pole, 257 ft. away. The ball landed low and inches fair for a home run, the shortest (by 40 ft.) possible homer in any National League park. Though Maglie lost his chance at Hubbell's record, by an inning...
...class. As the hard baseball saying goes, he couldn't even carry Williams' glove. Then scrawny (148 Ibs., 5 ft. 11 in.) Billy Goodman got a chance. It turned out that Billy could not only carry the Williams glove, he was pretty handy at hefting Williams' bat. This week, Billy Goodman's .360 batting average led the American League...
Billy always feels at home in the batter's box. He chokes up a bit on his 34-in., 34-oz. Ted Williams model bat, holds his elbows high, and figures confidently that he can hit all pitchers and all pitches equally well. Sometimes, he admits, "a baseball is hard to hit. There's a lot of luck in it." Luck or not, Ted Williams' substitute* seemed likely to be the 1950 batting champ of the American League...