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...Downs. His driving ambition got him a contract with Connie Mack's Philadelphia Athletics. He was 18, cocky and confident. But after a few weeks on the Greenville (Miss.) Class C farm club, Infielder Stanky was not so sure he wanted to be a major leaguer after all. Homesick and desperately unhappy, he wrote to his parents for money to come home. After ten anxious days he got a terse refusal from his mother. The letter ended: "We don't want any quitters in our family...
Under the smart handling of Old Mahatma Branch Rickey, who had spotted Stanky when he was a minor leaguer, and under the constant needling of Manager Leo Durocher (a player of small talents himself), Stanky blossomed in Brooklyn. He set his bases-on-balls record in 1945. He sparked Brooklyn to its first pennant in six years in 1947.** The Brooklyn fans made Eddie an idol (along with Dixie Walker), tabbed him with such affectionate nicknames as "The Brat," "Gromyko" (because he walked so much), "Stinky," and "Muggsy...
...injured too, early in the second series game. His replacement, Hank Bauer, a better hitter and far better fielder than Mantle, drove in the winning three runs yesterday with a two-out three-and-two pitch triple. Now, one out away from victory, Bauer raced in for Yvars' Texas Leaguer and caught it on the slide for what many consider the best fielding play of the series...
Reynolds is the second major leaguer to pitch two no-hit games in the same season. The feat had never been performed before in the American League...
...Pitcher Bob Feller's $50,000). But it was a rough jolt for Stan the Man, now 30, who knows that he has only five or six years more of big-league earning power at best. Cardinal President Fred Saigh immediately announced he would appeal the ruling. Major Leaguer Musial, who spent one earning year in the U.S. Navy, was not so hopeful: "If it's the law, there isn't anything I can do but abide...