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...terrible start, highlighted by Bob Lemon's failure and Luke Easter's injuries. Now Lemon has recovered completely, Bob Feller is at his best in three years, and Early Wynn and Mike Garcia are pitching well. Easter has regained his health and his batting form. Rosen, Doby, and Hegan are starting to hit. Bob Avila is becoming an excellent second baseman. The only weaknesses are at short and left, where Ray Boone and the usually extremely reliable Dale Mitchell have started very badly. Only six games behind Chicago and four behind New York, the Indians still have an excellent chance...
Cloveland pitcher Bob Lemon gave the Tigers six scattered hits in posting his twenty-third win. Meanwhile, the Indians blasted four Detroit hurlers for 15 hits, including homers by Jim Hegan and Dale Mitchell. Jerry Priddy homered for the losers. Tod Gray was the losing pitcher...
Waldman devotes other portions of his back to such men as Luke Appling, Gene Bearden, Alvin Dark, Bob (Mr. Team) Elliott, Jim Hegan, Tommy Henrich, Ben Hogan, Johnny Mize, Jackie Robinson, Johnny Sain, Vern Stephens, Doak Walker, and four-fifths of the 1948 Kentucky basketball team--Barker, Beard, Grozs, and Jones...
...preponderance of baseball players. No less than ten of the athletes discussed are ball players, and come of them, like Hegan and Elliott, just don't merit the attention. Hegan is not a great catcher--he can't hit; Elliott is a mediocre third baseman; and men like Sain and Stephens are dubious choices. Mize, of course, should have been written up many years ago. He belongs to an older school of baseball players...
Batteries: Feller (loser), Kileman Christopher, Paige, Munerief and Hegan; Potter Spatin (winner) and Saikeid...