Word: lombardis
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...from bailing out the culprit pitchers, as Ottie hoped, the hitters have flopped too. Disaster is contagious. If Ott didn't know that 37-year-old Ernie Lombardi couldn't go on hitting home runs right & left, and that 38-year-old Phil Weintraub was a chronic slumper (and a strictly minor-league first baseman), he was whistling alone in the dark...
...Lombardi, N. Y. 25 Weintraub, N. Y. 23 Nieman, Boston 24 Olmo, Brooklyn...
...York 7 Lombardi, N. Y. 7 Weintraub, N. Y. 7 Nieman, Boston...
This week, thanks mainly to the slugging of moody Phil Weintraub, big-beaked Ernie Lombardi and stumpy Manager Mel Ott (total ages no years), the Giants strutted at the top of the National League ladder with a won-lost count of 21-to-6. The veteran trio reached its peak of efficiency with a homer apiece in a single inning while copping four straight from the Chicago Cubs. Other reasons for cheer in the Giants camp: the unbeatable pitching of Bill Voiselle (8-0), the fine shortstopping of Buddy Kerr, the .347 hitting of Napoleon Reyes...
STOUT (with lunch-counter sarcasm): "As you see, they've got the facts, no getting away from it. Take the six leading batters in the major leagues: Williams, Gordon, Wright, Reiser, Lombardi, Medwick. Some bunch of Germans. Also the great German prize fighter, Joe Louis...