Word: bullpens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Caniff's dear, dead A.P. days will never be beyond recall. In the artists' bullpen on Madison Avenue, where Alfred Gerald Caplin (now Al Capp, creator of Li'l Abner) was also fenced in, Caniff launched a "kid strip" called Dickie Dare. A.P. artists got $60 to $85 a week and the greenest hand had to block out "the damn crossword puzzles." "They wouldn't even tell us how many papers were using our stuff," Caniff complains. "They were afraid we'd get big ideas...
...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...
...Empty Bullpen. To instill confidence in his young pitchers, he keeps his bullpen empty, sends a relief man down only when the situation is critical. This policy is clicking with has-beens like Schoolboy Rowe and Si Johnson, as well as the green youngsters for whom it was intended. Rowe has already won six games ; Johnson, seven...
...mound Hoftyzer worked himself in and out of a series of awkward positions. He pitched four straight balls to the first batter to face him, and gave the next a single through third. A double play from Gallagher to Fitzgibbons quieted activities in the bullpen and saved the inning...
Mort Waldstein will open for the Crimson as he did last week, and Sophfor the 14-inning triumph, will be in the bullpen for any necessary patch work. Who the Blue invaders will send out to defend their cause is not certain, but they are expected to call again on Ted Harrison...