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Burt had reclaimed talent beaten down last year by Leo the Lip's rough & ready handling. He helped Outfielder Gene Hermanski renew his self-confidence, and had him fielding better, hitting 83 percentage points higher than last year. When Pitcher Hank Behrman was sold to Pittsburgh and flopped, Manager Burt was the first to say, "We can use him"- and made a serviceable retread...
...baseball history only four men-Babe Ruth, Jimmy Foxx, Hack Wilson and Hank Greenberg-had hit 50 home runs in one season. Last week, with eight games of the season still left, a tall young ex-Navy pilot named Ralph Kiner became the fifth. He banged No. 50 into the left-field Scoreboard at Pittsburgh's Forbes Field, which put him one up on the New York Giants' Big John Mize (TIME, Aug. 25) in the race to be 1947's home-run king. Mize became the sixth to make the 50 Club two days later...
Maryland also boasts a well rounded set of backs, as interchangeable as the parts of a Ford tractor. Key man in the offense is 200 pound fullback Hank Corrado. Operating from a single wing and a T, Joe Gianclli, 155 pound flutterback, calls the signals and may got away this afternoon for some long runs...
...Maryland team of 1946. Joe Corletto at tackle is a bulwark of strength on the line and after the football season is a heavy-weight leather-pusher in the ring. He gave a creditable account of himself in the Inter-Collegiate Boxing Association Championships at Penn State last winter, Hank Corrado, a triple threat fullback, can smash the line, heave a pass, or punt with the best...
Coach Dick Harlow and his battery of assistant including Herb Kopp, Hank Margarita, and Henry Jacunski are expected in Cambridge this weekend to direct the double workouts prior to the opening game with Western Maryland, September...