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...team some good. The St. Louis Browns had long been regarded as baseball's version of the Polish joke; in 1944 they had gone 42 years without a pennant. As the draft began to erase differences between the teams, the oddball Brownies prospered. In the outfield were Mike Kreevich, a man with a penchant for hitting into double plays, and Milt ("Skippy") Byrnes, a 4-F with a bronchial condition. One of their catchers, Frank Mancuso, was a former lieutenant who had injured his back during parachute training; he could neither remain in the Army nor look skyward...
More fortunate, in that they at least appeared in action last week, were Rookies Ben Geraghty of the Brooklyn Dodgers, who was a college basketballer as recently as February, and Mike Kreevich of the White Sox, whose expert hitting against St. Louis helped put his team at the League...
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