Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Detroit, 200-lb. Bob Lemon of the Cleveland Indians, a revamped third baseman, took a big stride toward becoming 1948's pitcher-of-the-year by twisting the Detroit Tigers' tail as no pitcher had before him in 26 years. He gave no hits, only three walks. It was his eleventh win of the season (against six defeats) and the American League's first no-hitter under lights...
...panzer divisions were moving through the hotels. Typical of the way they operated was the story of Ohio's Delegate Chester Gillespie, who had been sent to the convention to vote for Stassen. Delegate Gillespie is a Cleveland Negro and an old friend of New York's most prominent Negro Republican, City Judge Francis E. Rivers. This information was on file...
...Cleveland, the big question of the week was: "What's the matter with Bob Feller?" The great man, whose pitching arm commands baseball's highest pay ($87,000), had lost five straight. The guesses ranged from a "temporary slump" to "natural deterioration" after a dozen years. Said Feller himself: "I'm not going to answer questions like that. I'm not going to throw gasoline on a fire that's going like hell anyway." He canceled all outside activities, including autograph parties at stores selling his book, How to Pitch. This week against the Philadelphia...
...some 16 years Dr. Claude S. Beck of Cleveland's Western Reserve University has been trying to find a safe way to give back enough blood to a starving heart to keep it going. A new Beck technique is reported in a recent Journal of the American Medical Association...
Last week, Dr. Beck was giving lessons in the new operation to two resident surgeons at Cleveland's Lakeside Hospital. They will start operating within two or three months on a waiting list of several hundred non-terminal patients...