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Tapping out their stories, the baseball writers applauded Yankee Di Maggie's homerun and Yankee Gordon's seemingly impossible one-handed catch of hard-hitting Cardinal Medwick's line drive, but the headlines were all for Bob Feller. The dimple-chinned kid, who still sleeps in a nightgown, pouts when he is dissatisfied and goes to zoos for amusement, was at last recognized as one of the greatest pitchers of all time. With paternal pride the experts pointed to the youngster's record so far this season: 14 victories and only three defeats (better than...
Wheaties' style of reporting ("Crack! A hot liner over second. Boy, Ducky-Wucky Medwick must have had a heaping dish of Wheaties this morning.") has become a running gag among baseball players, but it sells. The biggest (230 Ibs.) and the best Wheaties' announcer, 37-year-old Arch McDonald from Arkansas, adds a lingo of his own. A baseball buff from boyhood and a baseball announcer for the last eight seasons, Arch McDonald has the job of covering the home games of the World Champion Yankees and the Giants this season over WABC. He will collect a salary...
...getting rid of a problem child who had caused them many a headache? Were they turning a potential liability (Dizzy Dean won only 13 games and lost 10 last year) into a cash asset? Were they going to concentrate on attack this year with such powerful sluggers as Joe Medwick, Johnny Mize and highly touted Rookie Enos Slaughter? Was Dizzy a has-been like his brother Paul, who was sent back to the minors fortnight ago? And if his arm was bad, why did the Cubs, co-favorites with the Giants to win the National League pennant, want Dizzy Dean...
Joseph ("Ducky") Medwick, 25, St. Louis Cardinals' ace outfielder, who also led his league in batting (.374), as the National League's Most Valuable Player. Runner up was Catcher Gabby Hartnett of the Chicago Cubs...
...play. Frank Frisch's St. Louis Cardinals, generally rated to finish first in pre-season prognostications, had managed to stay in the first division, not so much by the pitching of famed Dizzy Dean as by the performance of the season's outstanding batter, Outfielder Joe Medwick. whose average of .375 last week was leading the league. Easygoing Harold ("Pie") Traynor's Pittsburgh Pirates, after a runaway lead during the month of May, seemed likely to finish fourth...