Word: mcdaniel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...important almost as their fast balls is the fizz of excitement the McDaniel boys have injected into the Cards. Behind the McDaniel-fortified pitching staff, the Cards' aging stars are bursting with new life. At 36, First Baseman Stan Musial is no longer able to play through both games of a doubleheader, has a little trouble now and then getting his legs to catch up with pop fouls. But he can still hit a baseball with deadly precision, is second in the league in batting (.342), homers (21), and runs batted in (67). Giant castoff Shortstop Al Dark...
...proper groove (his season record: 7-3), and Larry Jackson has a nifty 2.83 earned-run average and a 10-4 record. And, best of all, the Cardinals are getting a buoyant boost from their pair of bonus babies plucked off an Oklahoma cotton farm: Von and Lindy McDaniel. Von, only 18, has won four, lost one, has a 2.741 ERA; Lindy, 21, has won eight while losing five. Of big brother Lindy, who had only a 7-6 record last year, the Cardinals' manager and old Detroit pitcher Freddy Hutchinson cautiously says: "There's no doubt...
...Cubs, Pittsburgh's Pirates). The aging Dodgers may not be the world-beaters of other summers, but they are hanging on while some of their best players nurse assorted aches and pains on the sidelines. The St. Louis Cardinals have come upon a pair of pitching brothers named McDaniel, and for the first time in eleven years St. Louis has reason to remember the happy days of the Gashouse Gang and the Dean boys, whose strong right arms used to burn up the league. The once feeble Phillies have fooled everyone and ice-picked their way into contention with...
Together, Von and Lindy McDaniel are the surprise stars of the surprising Cardinals, who won three out of every four games during their one-month drive from fifth place to the top of the league. Von and Lindy are the only pair of brothers pitching for any major-league team, and the first pair of pitching brothers to wear Cardinal uniforms since the Dean boys-Dizzy and Paul-brought home a pennant in the glory days...
...McDaniel boys-both righthanders, both Bible students-grew up throwing their bullets in Hollis (pop. 3,089), Okla. Lindy got $50,000 to sign in 1955, when he was just 19, had only a mediocre year in 1956 (7-6). When Von struck out 243 batters this spring in his senior year in high school, big-league scouts swarmed around the McDaniel cotton farm once again. But father Newell McDaniel had his mind made up. "Just like Lindy, the price is $50,000," he said. "There's no bidding. I want the two boys to play together." Hastily, Cardinal...