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Grin & bear it they did-in the most extraordinary situation since Merkle neglected to touch second base. Last spring the Indians were generally written off as an also-ran in this year's American League pennant race. But, thanks to Pitcher Bob Feller and a pair of rookies, Lou Boudreau and Ray Mack, who made Cleveland's in field the hottest spot in baseball, the In dians found themselves, by mid-August, with a tight grip on first place...
...another tooth & nail. Detroit won the first game, 6-to-5. In the second, Schoolboy Rowe, hero of the Tigers' 1934 pennant victory, mauled the Indians, 5-to-0. Then, when dopesters were just about ready to concede the pennant to Detroit, the Indians, with Bob Feller pitching, scalped the Tigers...
...Noah Beery Jr. for Saloonkeeper Rambeau's spoiled daughter (Anne Baxter). Its sandy wastes are punctuated by one good crack. Says Mule Skinner Beery describing his sire: "He had twelve other sons besides me. I was always the youngest and puniest. Gosh, he was a fine old feller! Never raised a hand to none of us boys-'cept in self-defense." If I Had My Way (Universal) will thrill countless admirers of Singer Bing Crosby by making him the foster father of Songstress Gloria Jean, Universal's 12-year-old laryngeal replacement for rapidly maturing Deanna Durbin...
...this generation of Dodger fans, as devoted as they are daffy, the 1940 team is second to none. Even rival clubs admit the Dodgers have a crack infield and their pitchers have made them blink. Brooklyn may not boast a DiMaggio or a Feller, but, in its first nine games, the assorted collection of castoffs and come-ups assembled by President Larry MacPhail and Manager Leo Durocher proved that they are a clicking machine...
That night, wherever baseball fans gathered, all pre-season posers were eclipsed by one absorbing question: Will Bob Feller turn out to be the greatest pitcher of all time...