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Last week, Doak Walker won the Heisman Trophy, awarded the "player-of-the year," following in the footprints of Johnny Lujack (1947), Glenn Davis (1946) and Doc Blanchard (1945). Said soft-spoken Doak, who does not seem as impressed with himself as everybody else is: "I sure appreciate...
When the baseball season ends, Doc Hyland's busiest season begins. For nine weeks, ailing ballplayers have come to his St. Louis office to see the man known as "baseball's surgeon-general." Dr. Robert Hyland has a physician's professional reticence about discussing patients; besides, baseball's big winter meetings are coming up. "Some of the men are liable to be up for trading," said Doc...
...even though the Cubs knew of Dr. Hyland's findings. Last week three of the doctor's patients were easily identifiable as Cardinals. It was no secret either that the 1949 pennant hopes of the New York Giants would rise or fall on how skillfully Doc Hyland carved a bone growth from Catcher Walker Cooper's kneecap this week...
Since Babe Ruth tore his finger on some chicken wire 17 years ago, at least 5,000 big leaguers have visited baseball's two surgical meccas-St. Louis and Baltimore. Doc Hyland, a good-natured, husky 60, gets all the St. Louis trade, and a lot of Eastern clients besides. In Baltimore, the man to see is testy, trim Dr. George Bennett, a famed orthopedic surgeon and a rabid baseball fan, like Hyland. Dr. Bennett's most recent patient: Joe DiMaggio, who walked out of Johns Hopkins hospital on crutches last week after having a spur cut from...
Forkballs & Sliders. Dr. Hyland, a frustrated ballplayer himself, resents any suggestion that the present-day frequency of "elbow chips" and bone growths means that players are less durable than of old. Says Doc, who often talks the way sport-writers write: "Today's crop is obviously better educated and, if anything, up to a faster type of baseball. The culprit in the injury woodpile is the development of trick pitching...