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...Rochester, habitual minor leaguer, had a V12 program and the prospects of a lifetime...
Great Lakes has a ball team of major-league caliber. But the service team that looks even better, at least on paper, is the one that wears the blue & grey of the Norfolk Naval Training Station. Last year the Sailors had only one great big-leaguer, Chief Boatswain's Mate Bob Feller (now at sea). This year, besides Rizzuto, McCoy, Dom Di Maggio and Padgett, the line-up includes two up-&-coming youngsters: First Baseman Eddie Robinson, onetime Baltimore Oriole, and Catcher Vince Smith, a fledgling Pirate who handled Feller's pitching last year. To replace Feller...
...Captain Says. . . . Unlike the Great Lakes team, the Norfolk Training Station nine is managed by no big-leaguer, but a warrant officer (boatswain...
...quickly. Walt Sorgi started matters off by beating out a hit to second. Brooks Heath, trying to sacrifice, forced Sorgi. Then Danny Shields, who seems to be ensconced at third base for Floyd Stahl, blasted a double along the left field line, Sorgi stopping at third. When ex-big leaguer Jim Hegan endured the ignominy of a passed ball a moment later, Sorgi scored, and Shields tallied on Gerry Callauan's infield...
Unlike younger clubs, the Kubs and Kids have little holdout trouble. The players rush to practice year after year. In this year's lineups there is only one former big leaguer: Kub Catcher Fred ("Jake") Ross, retired streetcar maintenance man from Rockville Center, N.Y., who once played with the New York Metropolitans (a forerunner of the Yankees). One of the league's leading sluggers, who plays second base for the Kubs, is 83-year-old Frank Peckinpaugh, father of the great baseballing Roger.* The Kids' most eminent character is 77-year-old Elmer Veitch, onetime North Dakota...