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Dissatisfied with this slim margin of safety, although he was never in trouble until the last inning, Harrison poled a long fly into left center field. The Eliot fielder misjudged it, and by the time he had retrieved the ball right hander Harrison was well on his way safely home...
...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...
...that stuck (his Braves mates call him "The Nose"). Except for his high-heeled delivery (see cut) and his knack of nipping runners off first base,* there was not much out of the way about shy, Buffalo-born Warren Spahn. In every baseball manager's book, young left-hander pitchers are automatically listed as eccentric. Not so Spahn. He has what few southpaws have ever shown in their first full big-time season: control, relaxed confidence and a bag of assorted pitches (in 100 innings pitched, he has walked 42 batters, struck...
...Crimson, righthander Jack Wallace lasted eight innings and gave up all the runs, and all of the Elis '13 bits. He was lifted for a pinch hitter in the Varsity's two-run eighth inning. Left-hander Ira Godin came on in the ninth and set the Elis down in order...