Word: kurowski
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...club that Eddie Dyer now has is no worldbeater. It has four .300 hitters Stan Musial, Enos Slaughter, Red Schoendienst and Whitey Kurowski-but like Brooklyn, it is weak in catching and has no pitcher, except perhaps Howie Pollet, likely to win 20 games. The Cards got back in the running largely by Dodger default, but in their recent home-stand they had won 16, lost 6. Still, the aged Cubs, last year's winners and now in third place, might yet give both the Cards and Dodgers...
Stirnweiss, N. Y. .309 Cavarretta, Chicago .355 Cuccinello, Chicago .308 Holmes, Boston .352 Dickshot, Chicago .303 Rosen, Brooklyn .325 Estalella, Phila. .297 Kurowski, St. Louis .323 Moses, Chicago .295 Hack, Chicago...
Heath, Cleveland 15 Kurowski, St. Louis...
Holmes, Boston .426 Kurowski, St. L. .387 Ott, New York .402 Olmo, Brooklyn...
...winning the fifth and final game, Beazley turned in another masterful performance. In the fifth inning, trailing by one run, with the bases loaded and two Cardinal errors behind him, he calmly retired Cullenbine and DiMaggio. He kept his head until Whitey Kurowski broke up a nerve-racking ninth-inning tie with a home run to bring in an extra run and give the Cardinals the game (4-to-2) and the championship, four games...