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...Ewell Blackwell was the National League's strike-out king. He was baseball's top pitcher, with 15 wins, 2 defeats. He had also pitched 1947's first major league no-hitter (TIME, June 30). Already fans were comparing him to the great strikeout artist Bob Feller, who ducked last week's All-Star game because of a back injury (but pitched and won for Cleveland two days later...
Pendrake looked at once puzzled and abashed, and nodded vaguely. "So long, feller. I, umm . . . guess I'll go over to town and try to find some guys...
...major-league baseball teams passed the season's one-third mark last week, the leading pitcher was neither Bob Feller, Hal Newhouser, Harry Brecheen nor Ewell Blackwell, nor any of the other established celebrities of the mound. On the figures, the best pitcher was a hooknosed, six-foot left-hander named Warren Spahn; habitat Braves Field, Gaffney Street, Boston...
This week, against Pittsburgh's plummeting Pirates, 26-year-old Pitcher Spahn spun his tenth win, breezing through with six strikeouts. That put him one up on Cincinnati's smart Right-Hander Blackwell, two up on Cleveland's swift Feller, and halfway to every pitcher's goal-a 20-game victory total...
...Like Bob Feller, Warren Spahn learned it from his father: the Spahns worked out on Buffalo's sand lots. He had barely made the Braves in 1942, when the Army took him. He came out of Europe with a wound ("just a scratch on the foot") and a first lieutenancy. Last year, in something more than half the season with the Braves, he won eight and lost five. This year he put together a string of eight wins before his two defeats...