Word: meer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over third baseman whom Manager Bill McKechnie had bought from the Phillies last summer, Pitcher Walters had a natural sinker (the reason he flopped as an infielder) and miracle Manager McKechnie had taught him some tricks of the trade; but the Reds had much abler pitchers in Johnny Vander Meer, Lee Grissom, Paul Derringer...
Last week, however, hardworking, lanky Bucky Walters whizzed past them all. So far this season he had won 19 games-five more than Derringer, twelve more than Grissom, 14 more than Vander Meer -and he was batting .338 to boot. He was not only the No. 1 pitcher of both major leagues but the difference between success and failure in the Reds' pennant race...
...ever won, in 53 years of trying, was the one that involved them in the scandalous Black Sox Series of 1919. That they are the experts' choice this year is due to: 1) the ablest pitching staff in the league (headed by Paul Derringer, Lee Grissom, Johnny Vander Meer); 2) some of the best hitters (Batting Champion Ernie Lombardi, Ival Goodman, Frank McCormick); 3) Manager Bill McKechnie...
Last week the baseball writers made their selections: Jimmy Foxx of the Boston Red Sox (in the American League), and Ernie Lombardi of the Cincinnati Reds (in the National). For big-nosed, slow-footed, 220-lb. Catcher Lombardi, who guided Rookie Pitcher Johnny Vander Meer through his two famed no-hit games last summer and outbatted (.342) every other player in the league this season, it was his first taste of fame in eight years of banging around the National League...
...from a 40-to-1 shot in April to a pennant possibility at midseason. On the Fourth of July, traditional halfway mark in the pennant race, the Reds last week were in fourth place, but were leading the National League in club batting average, had the leading pitcher (Vander Meer), leading batter (Lombardi), leading homerun hitter (Goodman, whose 20 homeruns so far are more than any player in Cincinnati's history ever made in a whole season...