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...tail-end Phillies' last year; 2) onetime Cardinal Mickey Owen, a Grade A catcher; 3) onetime Pirate Paul Waner, seasoned outfielder; 3) Second Baseman Alex Kampouris, who led the International League in home runs last year. Besides, they have mighty Joe Medwick, the slugger whom Boss Larry MacPhail bought for $132,500 last summer, only to have him beaned and made ball-shy for the rest of the season. This spring, comforted by a bean-proof plastic headguard which all Dodgers are compelled to wear inside their caps, Muscle Man Medwick seems to be back in the groove...
...Havana, where his prancing Dodgers, looking less than ever like the flyblown crocks who were once Brooklyn's most predictable annual ornament, were fixing to lick the Giants, the draft (see p. 51), and all baseball attendance records, brash, red-haired Flatbush Boss Larry ("Barnum") MacPhail welcomed another boss to the Dodgers' Havana training ground, shook cordial hands with brash, black-haired Cuban President Fulgencio Batista...
Last week, many a professional athlete and club owner had another war on his mind. The draft act put a horrid fear into the minds of sports promoters: that the draft would rob them of their bread winners. Recently loud Larry MacPhail, a World War I veteran who tried to kidnap the Kaiser after the Armistice, made a plea for his Brooklyn Dodgers, asked that ballplayers caught in the draft be deferred until the season's end. Otherwise, said he, they would lose two seasons' play -and pay. It has cost a fortune to build the team...
...Louis Cardinals, he averaged .338 at bat, drove in 873 runs and scored 771 runs himself (including 145 homers). Last year, when Leo ("Lippy") Durocher left the Cardinals to become manager of the Dodgers, he yearned to take along Ducky, his longtime roommate and protege. Dodger President Larry MacPhail, a red-headed go-getter, wanted Medwick...
President MacPhail two years ago offered Cardinal President Sam Breadon $200,000 for Medwick. Breadon h-mmmm-phed. Last year, when he repeated his offer, Breadon h-mmmm-phed again. Last week, with the Cardinals in seventh place and hopelessly out of the running, Breadon finally surrendered. To Brooklyn went Medwick (and 33-year-old Pitcher Curt Davis, who has failed to win a game this year*) in exchange for four Dodgers and a bagful of cash, the contents of which remained undisclosed-other than it was more than the $185,000 the Cardinals received for Dizzy Dean two years...