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...good pitcher; that wllson had a good start last year too; that Yastrzemaki is already slumping; and that Stuart has rarely hit for a high average. They say that the Yankees are but a half game off the pace even with Roger Maris (.238), Bobby Richardson (.227), and Tony Kubek (175) slumping. They say the Orioles' pitchers are looking good, that the White Sox are getting good hitting, and that the Athletics look solid...
SHORTSTOP--Overwhelming New New York superiority here, as Ralph Houk can play either Tony Kubek (.314) or the obvious Rookie of the Year choice, Tom Tresh. The Giants have Pagan, a good solid, steady, but unsensational...
Over the off-season, partisans of other A.L. hopefuls like Al Lopez and Bob Scheffing pointed, to the loss of shortstop Tony Kubek and the impossibility of repeat performances by Roger Maris and Luis Arroyo ("Relievers Don't Repeatl" an article in Baseball Digest maintained) as reasons for a Yankee collapse...
With Cash at first, the Tiger infield is clearly better than a Kubek-less Yankee infield. Sophomores Wood (.258, 308B's) and Steve Boros (.270) at second and third are sure fielders and developing hitters. At short, off-again-on-again Chico Fernandez had a fine spring...
...Army, already up to its boot-tops in professional athletic talents, last week snared two more famous names: New York Yankee Shortstop Tony Kubek, 25, married only two weeks, who joined Wisconsin's Red Arrow Division at Fort Lewis, Wash., and Green Bay Packer Halfback Paul Hornung, 25, top scorer in the National Football League, who reports next week to Fort Riley, Kans., at the end of a two-week deferment granted on medical grounds. Said Hornung, who originally was disqualified because of a pinched nerve in his neck, then pronounced fit after a second exam...