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With a baseball Barnum's flair for profitable hokum, Bill Veeck touched a match to Lou Boudreau's old contract, and grinned while the flames consumed it. Then 31-year-old Lou Boudreau signed a new, two-year contract as player-manager of the Cleveland Indians. Neither Boudreau nor the Indians' President Veeck was telling the exact salary, but they encouraged guesses of about $65,000 a year...
...salary was a big boost over Boudreau's 1948 pay of $52,000, and (according to Veeck) "by far the largest straight salary ever offered a player by the club."* But Lou had earned it with his spectacular triple performance-as the American League's best shortstop, its best hitter (.355) after Boston's Ted Williams, and manager of the league and world's champions. President Veeck threw in a handsome admission: "Sure, I tried to trade the guy off [in 1947]. But the fans wouldn't stand for it . . . So Boudreau made...
...world's best last summer to become the youngest (17) Olympic decathlon champion in history, became the youngest to win the James E. Sullivan Memorial Award as 1948's amateur of the year. He also ran a close second to baseball's highly professional Lou Boudreau in the poll for the year's No. 1 male athlete...
...Boudreau, outstanding baseball player-manager for the World's Champion Cleveland Indians...
...Sunday's game, the Series stood at 3-2, with Cleveland needing one more victory to cinch the Series. In the dejected Cleveland dressing room (the Indians had lost that day), a reporter found Boudreau, asked him who would pitch next day. "It'll be Bob Lemon tomorrow," said Boudreau. "How about Tuesday?" Snapped Boudreau: "There'll be no game Tuesday." There wasn't either. Bob Lemon, with the help of Gene Bearden, finished off Boston...