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Unfavorable weather has kept the nine cooped up in Briggs Cage for an especially long time. Samborski has found it difficult to tell who the long ball hitters are, since inside the cage, a Texas leaguer and home run blast look only slightly different. Nor is indoor running the same as outdoors. In addition, John Arnold, a pitcher with a good fast ball and change of pace, found himself with a broken left wrist after a fall during outside practice recently. His right pitching arm has not been harmed, but his batting will have to be strictly limited to bunting...
...years ago Casey Stengel, then manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, took a quick look at a skinny little kid who claimed to be a shortstop. Casey gave the youngster a blunt piece of advice: "Go peddle your papers, Shorty, you're too small ever to become a major-leaguer...
...than Mize and hit only one more home run to lead the league that year. The next two years Jawn hit 51 and 40; Kiner spoiled the glory with an identical record. At the end of last year, Joe DiMaggio had more home runs than any other active major leaguer: 317. Mize...
...third brother, Sarat Chandra Bose, now 60, fat and moonfaced, was Minister of Works, Mines and Power until the Congress in 1946 gave his cabinet job to a Moslem Leaguer. In a huff, Sarat Bose quit the Congress, organized his own Socialist Republican Party. He was in Switzerland, recuperating from a mild heart attack, when a by-election was scheduled for his brother Satish's legislative seat. Promptly he declared himself a candidate. Onto his bandwagon leaped opportunist Communists, disgruntled Socialists and rabid Hindu Communalists-all united against an old Congress Party warhorse, Suresh...
Died. Joseph Paul DiMaggio Sr., 77, retired Italian immigrant fisherman who became baseball's most famous father (sons: Joe of the Yankees, Dominic of the Red Sox, and onetime Major-Leaguer Vincent, now player-manager of the Class D Pittsburg, Calif. Diamonds); of a heart ailment; in San Francisco...