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...opener, held at Cincinnati's Crosley Field, Buck Newsom was selected as the starting pitcher against Paul Derringer. Derringer is probably the smartest pitcher in baseball. But Buck Newsom, also known as Old Bo-Bo and The Old Showboat, was not alarmed. A cocky, 32-year-old righthander who had roamed the major leagues for ten years but had never wound up on a pennant-winning team, Newsom had told the baseball world before the season started that he would pitch Detroit into winning this year's American League pennant...
Last week Old Bo-Bo brought his Pa, his Ma and his three sisters up from Hartsville, S. C. to watch him play in his first World Series. Father Newsom had never seen a World Series game, had only once in his 68 years been in a big-league ball park. With characteristic aplomb, Old Showboat predicted that he would win two World Series games. "Yeah, I'll outpitch Derringer," he drawled...
...Tiger fans. Buck Newsom-also known as Bo-Bo and the Old Showboat-is the big cat's whiskers. At training camp last spring, he noisily announced: "The Yanks are a bunch of softies who have scared everybody except Old Bo-Bo half to death. All we need to win the pennant is some extra good pitching and I'll supply that...
True to his word. Old Bo-Bo (who previously played with the Dodgers, Cubs, Browns, Senators, Red Sox) proceeded to give the Yankees a dose of his pitching poison: a fast ball with plenty of hop, a baffling curve, a lazy looper. In 16 games this season, he and his teammates drubbed the World Champions twelve times. Last week, in their three-game series, they pounded them for 24 runs, 41 hits...
Before the season closes, Old Bo-Bo expects to win 30 games. Last week, only eleven days after he broke his thumb, he defied his doctor's orders, pitched a game against the Athletics. Starting out with his thumb wrapped in adhesive, he pompously ripped the bandage off after walking one batter, proceeded to strike out ten men before being sent to the showers in the eleventh inning with his first defeat since the opening game of the season. Undismayed at breaking his winning streak, Newsom shrugged his massive shoulders, proclaimed: "I'm startin' a new streak...