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Black Cat, Good Luck. He was booed in Baltimore. In Syracuse one day, the rival team let out a black cat from their dugout as Jackie walked up to bat. Jackie got mad and hit a triple with the bases loaded. By the time the season ended, his doctor told him that he was on the verge of a nervous breakdown, but nobody would have guessed it by looking at his record. Second Baseman Robinson led the International League in batting (with a .349 average) and in fielding (with a .985 average). Montreal won the pennant, and the fans, after...
Actually, Jackie at bat is most dangerous when the odds are against him. When the count gets to two strikes, as he explains it: "Then I begin to crowd the plate a little." Says Branch Rickey: "He is the best batter in the game with two strikes on him." Pitchers capitalize on his hasty swing by feeding him slow stuff. "I just can't hit those nuthin' pitches," Jackie complains. Because he is the best bunter in the game, the Dodgers "cut him loose" at the plate (i.e., let him decide for himself whether to take...
Cure. In Newport, R.I., when a spider landed on ten-year-old Patricia Ann Toppa's head, her friend, John O'Brien, 12, gallantly rushed to the rescue, knocked out both spider and Patricia Ann with his baseball bat...
...slump began in last year's World Series, and a winter's brooding about it didn't help. Before the 1947 season was well along, American League pitchers, who once quivered at the sight of Ted and his big bat, confidently fed him inside pitches -the kind he used to pull into right field for singles and doubles. His smashes dropped harmlessly into the gloves of fielders, shifted into a solid defense wall to the right every time Williams came to bat...
...inning relief stint against the Pirates-on a day when Kiner & Co. really had their hitting shoes on-he gave up 10 hits and 8 runs. He couldn't ever do much worse than that, and he looked as though he could do quite a lot better. His batting, on the other hand, could not be improved on: his first time at bat, Bankhead fouled off several pitches, then banged a home run into the left field stands...