Word: beazley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nashville's Berry Field, Lieut. Johnny Beazley (Air Forces) is dishing out the pitching that made him the Cardinal hero of last year's World Series...
...nines are not only serving the purpose for which they were originally intended (entertainment of trainees), but in some areas are drawing larger civilian crowds than big-league clubs. When the Santa Ana flyers played the Hollywood Stars (Pacific Coast League) last month, Angelenos packed the stadium. Whenever Johnny Beazley's team plays a neighboring semi-pro outfit, the park is packed. Five thousand civilians purchased nearly $100,000 in war bonds to see a recent exhibition game between the Norfolk Naval Training Station and the Norfolk Naval Air Station...
...league baseball was last week fast becoming a sport for creaking oldtimers and freakish 4-Fs. Two hundred and one big-leaguers (more than 50% of the regular personnel) have joined the armed forces, including such key players as the Cardinals' Enos Slaughter and Johnny Beazley, the Yankees' "Red" Ruffing and Phil Rizzuto, Dodger Slugger Pete Reiser and Red Sox 1942 Player-of-the-year Ted Williams. Last week two more mainstays were headed warward: Yankee Joe DiMaggio and Dodger Manager Leo ("Lippy") Durocher...
typewriter. His farewell reassurance to reporters: "Don't worry about my career. My career is people." Of his fellow draftees he remarked: "They're all scared," added: "Me, too. But that's what makes a good army. You have to be scared." Cardinal Pitcher Johnny Beazley, 3-A, passed the Navy's physical exam, applied for permission to enlist as a chief specialist in bodybuilding. The draft board of Englewood, NJ. classified Charles Augustus Lindbergh as 3-6 (in vital war work, and with dependents: he has four children...
...Country's Rabbits. But neither White nor Beazley could have been a hero without Enos Slaughter, mightiest of the Missouri robber barons. Though his teammates call him "Country"-because he came to the Cardinal tryout camp straight from the North Carolina backwoods-there is nothing slow about Slaughter. He is the second-best batter (.318) in the National League, is almost a Ty Cobb on the bases, has a magnetic mitt and a mighty arm (developed, he says, pegging stones at rabbits when he was a shaver...