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...Chapter Two, the belated diversionary tactic is to have Brother Leo and Jennie's best friend Faye Medwick (Ann Wedgeworth) indulge in a teasy, vaudevillian, near adulterous liaison. Wedgeworth is a lispy, New Yorky clown with Valentine's Day on the brain, and her performance is as impeccable as her body is scannable. Not to scant the men. It will take the year or so that their contracts have to run to find adequate replacements for the richly gifted Hirsch and Gorman...
Died. Joe ("Ducky") Medwick, 63, hardhitting Hall of Fame outfielder; of an apparent heart attack; in St. Petersburg, Fla. A charter member of the St. Louis Cardinals' rambunctious "gas house gang" of the 1930s, the muscular Medwick, one of baseball's best bad-ball batters, dredged ankle-high pitches out of the dust and sent balls headed for his ear screaming over the wall. His lifetime average: .324. Short-fused Ducky was as quick with his fists as his bat. Running out a triple for his eleventh hit of the series in the seventh game...
...gaining control of minor-league clubs, using them as training schools for future stars. At first rival big-league bosses hooted at the idea-but they changed their tune when the Cardinal organization produced Rickey's famed "Gashouse Gang" managed by Frankie Frisch and featuring Dizzy Dean, Ducky Medwick, Leo Durocher and Pepper Martin. With as many as 32 minor-league teams operating full blast, Rickey had a virtual monopoly on young talent. The Cardinals won the World Series in 1926-and over the next 16 years they went on to win five Na tional League pennants and three...
...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...