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...reason why the St. Louis Cardinals are favorites* to win another National League pennant is their prize pitching staff. Even in spring training, Card pitchers seemed to have something extra up the sleeve. Exhibit A last week was slender, 155-lb. Murry Dickson, a righthander, who strode out to the mound in St. Petersburg to face the big, bad New York Yankees...
...Dickson, less rugged than most pitchers, relies on a rich assortment of what baseballers call "stuff." He throws six types of pitches (fast ball, curve, slider, knuckler, sinker and screw ball). Says he: "Sometimes early in a game, some of them aren't working so well. So I drop the bad ones and stick with the ones that will do me the most good." All of them were working against the Yankees that...
...first time Joe DiMaggio stepped to bat, Dickson says he threw three perfect strikes ("Not down the middle-not to DiMaggio, ever. But they were good"). Umpire Bill Summers called each of them a ball-then apologized to the pitcher: "I'm sorry, Dick. It's that damned background. I can't follow the ball...
...Dickson, Papai (7) and Garagiola; Dubiel, Bicknoll (6), Hoerst (8) and Lopata, Lakeman (6). Pittsburg (NL), 003 010 020--6 10 2 San Frau...
Radiating from its 79 Mount Auburn Street headquarters, the Service will penetrate the home, the clinic, or the hospital, depending upon what environment the situation requires. To do this, it has one full-time pediatrician (Dr. Kiehl), one part-time pediatrician (Dr. William Dickson), a medical director (Dr. Francis MacDonald), two nurses, and a corp of secretaries...