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...ninth, with one out and two to go, Chicago Manager Phil Cavarretta came up as a pinch hitter. He blasted a long ball into the rightfield stands, and the crowd sighed in relief as it went foul. Cavarretta went out on an easy fly to centerfield. The final batter worked Erskine to a full 3-ball, 2-strike count before meekly grounding out. First-Base Umpire Bill Stewart had hardly made his dramatic thumb-up "out" gesture before the whole Dodger team poured out from diamond and dugout to crowd around grinning Carl Erskine and cheer the most sparkling pitching...
Scouts from 15 big league clubs were on hand. They knew from experience that the Little World Series is baseball's best proving ground. In the early '30s at Houston, they had seen a young pitcher named Phil Cavarretta (now the Chicago Cubs' rightfielder) beat out fuzzy-cheeked Kirby Higbe (now the Brooklyn Dodgers' pitching mainstay). A few years later in Charlotte, N.C. 17-year-old Hal Newhouser (now the Detroit Tigers' 23-game winner, and the American League's most valuable player in 1944 and 1945) wept in the locker room after losing...
...Cubs, who hadn't fattened their 1945 roster much except for pitching. Manager Charlie Grimm would still have Batting Champion Phil Cavarretta...
Stirnweiss, N. Y. .309 Cavarretta, Chicago .355 Cuccinello, Chicago .308 Holmes, Boston .352 Dickshot, Chicago .303 Rosen, Brooklyn .325 Estalella, Phila. .297 Kurowski, St. Louis .323 Moses, Chicago .295 Hack, Chicago...
Stars & Averages. When Bill ("Swish") Nicholson, last year's home run and R.B.I. champion, began swishing air almost exclusively this year, Jolly Cholly left him strictly alone. Nicholson still has plenty of threat value, and four other Cubs-Hack, Johnson, Cavarretta, Pafko-have better than .300 averages. (Cavarretta's .363 mates him the present runner-up to Boston's Tommy Holmes for batting honors...