Word: medwick
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fences. In the last weeks of the season he had been walloping hits through the infield with increasing regularity, hitting the ball wherever it was pitched. Puzzled pitchers could scarcely sneak a bad ball past him; he was turning into the best bad-ball batter since the great Ducky Medwick. His average climbed steadily...
...clicked as fast as the Rickey brain. He became a master at selling his stars, at the right time, for fabulous prices. He sold a sore-armed Dizzy Dean for $185,000 at the precise moment when Dean was through as a pitcher, unloaded fading, 29-year-old Ducky Medwick for $135,500, and reached into his farm system for 20-year-old Musial...