Word: handers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With two-thirds of his starting outfield gone, Samborski also had to give up hopes of starting Red Connolly, his leading pitcher, who is still suffering from the after-effects of injections which cleared his infected finger. Right hander Ira Godin, released from Stillman on Monday, will be on the mound for the Crimson in the official home getaway, should the elements cooperate...
...play baseball. Although Jackie had played second base or shortstop all his life, he was handed a first-baseman's mitt and sent out to sink or swim at a new position -first base. Being right-handed was no help: first base is a left-hander's position. It is easier for a left-hander to throw from first to any other base, and easier to pick a man off the bag. Only a few great first basemen (among them the Cubs' Frank Chance and the Giant's George Kelly) were righthanded. But Robinson, with...
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...
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...