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...make book on baseball. Outpaced in the stretch three years in a row, the Indians were now playing the steady, workmanlike baseball of champions. Their first-line pitchers (Wynn, Lemon, Garcia) have turned in some of the best performances of the season. Onetime Fireballer "Rapid" Robert Feller, now grown gracefully ancient (he will be 36 in November), has surprised even himself with a fine 11-2 record. Rookies Ray Narleski and Don Mossi have been fogging their high, hard ones past late-inning batters. And the Indians have been winning the tough ones; they have taken 25 games...
...Chicago, just 18 years after his major-league debut, Cleveland's Bob Feller scored his 2,511th strikeout, firmly fixing himself in third place in the alltime strikeout standings. Only Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators (3,497) and Cy Young (2,836), who played for Cleveland, St. Louis and Boston, struck out more men. In fourth place, behind Rapid Robert: the great Christy Matthewson, with...
...dugout, Charles Dillon Stengel, visiting "Perfessor" from The Bronx, shuffled, scratched and sprawled elegantly, then announced in learned accents that any fool could see who was holding those Cleveland Indians up in first place. Old Casey scowled across the green infield of Cleveland's Municipal Stadium: "That young feller," he gestured grandly, "that feller's a ball player. He'll give you the works every time. Gets all the hits, gives you the hard tag in the field. That feller's a real competitor, you bet your sweet curse life...
Clearly, he has kept working. Behind the Indians' fine pitching staff, Wynn, Lemon, Garcia, Feller & Co., he almost always turns in a creditable performance. At the plate he is always a threat. In all pennant-hungry Cleveland, there is no happier sight than Al Rosen, firmly established in the batter's box. The ball steams in, his hips swing in a fast little shake, his left leg lifts for a quick thrust forward, and the big bat whips around. It has connected often enough to make him the league's second-ranking batsman, after his teammate Bobby...
...Fastest Since Feller" is the label being applied to the Baltimore Orioles' burly young righthander...