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...played hunches and hustle all season. If the mood came over him, he would take out a batter who already had two strikes on him, put in a pinch hitter Says he: "I just get a feeling." He kept his bullpen in a stew: sometimes, against a single batter, he deliberately used one pitcher for a fast ball, another for a curve. For 15 weeks, with only about four first-rate men (Ed Stanky, Peewee Reese, Dixie Walker and Pete Reiser), Durocher had held the Dodgers at the top of the league. It was a great performance, worthy of making...
...Mexican gold rush was no El Dorado. U.S. ball players, who started the season playing the fancy kind of ball Boss Jorge Pasquel paid them for, by last week were looking pretty sad. The league's leading batter (.383) was Cuba's Claro Duany; and the only high-priced U.S. batsman who was close was ex-Giant Nap Reyes (.375). Onetime major leaguers Luis Olmo, Danny Gardella and George Hausmann had sagged fought, out of the .300 class. The Card's fugitive Max Lanier had won six and lost one, but some of the home-grown pitchers...
...batter's box this summer-has been Bill Harford. William has hung up a cool .400 average for the summer and leads the Crimson RBI department with five...
Bill Harford's .353 mark has been a big help in keeping the Crimson average over the .500 mark. Although he went four for zero in Wednesday's tilt against Squantum Harford has been a valuable asset in the batter's box. BATTING AVERAGES G AB H RBI PCT Peterson 1 1 1 1 1.000 Farrell 2 6 4 1 .667 Harford 5 17 6 4 .353 Fiorentino 5 18 6 1 .333 Apthorp 1 3 1 0 .333 Feloney 2 3 1 1 .333 Moravee 4 13 4 2 .308 Senseney 5 17 5 4 .299 Essayen...
...time up he announced: "I'll make 'em walk me again." Then he went into his dance. While Pitcher Johnny Lanning tried to find the plate, Brooklyn's brat writhed, wiggled, squatted and crowded the plate. Umpire George Barr ordered Stanky to get back in the batter's box and behave. When the count got to three balls and two strikes, Stanky carefully fouled off any pitch that came near the plate, finally got the fourth ball...