Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cleveland 8, St. Louis...
Fenway Park has Theodore S. Williams. Sportsman's Park has Stanley Musial. Yankee Stadium has Joseph Dimaggio. Cleveland's Municipal Stadium has a half-dozen men whose autographs are in great demand. But Braves Field seems to have no one of even moderate pen appeal...
...Cleveland 7, St. Louis...
...whom shrewd baseball men were touting as the player to watch in 1949 was Cleveland's 25-year-old Negro centerfielder, Larry Doby. Speedster Doby showed plenty of promise last year until, toward the end of the season, pitchers made a discovery: a dust-off ball, thrown in an early inning, could upset Doby's stance for the rest of the day. Doby began to slam fewer clothesline drives to the fences. If he could learn to handle the treatment, baseballers thought he might even be another Joe DiMaggio...
Morale. The Cleveland Graphite Bronze Co., which employs 496 foundry workers, has a plan to make working in a foundry pleasanter-and also cut down the danger of infection from dirt, acids, etc. The company pays 25? a day to every worker who takes a shower bath at the plant before going home. The company reported last week that it paid out $28,837 in 1948 shower money...