Word: higbee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bags of peanuts in hand, Bing Crosby and three little Crosbys clumped into the dressing room of the spring-training Pittsburgh Pirates. Said Part-Owner (25%) Crosby to Pitcher Kirby Higbe, as he popped a peanut into his mouth: "How's things, Kirby?" With a shudder, a Pirate locker...
Scouts from 15 big league clubs were on hand. They knew from experience that the Little World Series is baseball's best proving ground. In the early '30s at Houston, they had seen a young pitcher named Phil Cavarretta (now the Chicago Cubs' rightfielder) beat out fuzzy...
In baseball, no one could touch the Manila Dodgers-thanks mainly to the strong right arm of Pfc. Kirby Higbe. After the Brooklyn Dodgers' pitcher shut out the Marianas All-Stars, 11-0, his team took the title with a ragged 12-7 win.
Them Bums. The Brooklyns are comforted by the memory of how Cincinnati's Pitchers Bucky Walters and Paul Derringer defeated the power-hitting Detroit Tigers in last year's World Series. This year the Dodgers have the best pitching pair in the major leagues: calm 33-year-old...
That should have satisfied Brooklyn fans. The series had been a hair-raising standoff. The Dodgers were still one and a half games in front. For the September homestretch, they have an easier schedule than the Cardinals. They proved that they can match St. Louis slugger for slugger, fielder for...