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Johnny Lindell, New York Yankee outfielder, was waived out of the American League yesterday and sold to the St. Louis Cardinals at the waiver price of $10,000. The world champions also announced that John Mize had been sent to the club's Kansas City farm team on 24-hour recall...
...Mize was accompanied to the American Association affiliate by pitcher Duane Pillette and infielder Al (Billy) Martin. Clarence (Cuddles) Marshall, a pitcher, was sold to the St. Louis Browns for an unannounced sum, possibly not in excess...
Waldman devotes other portions of his back to such men as Luke Appling, Gene Bearden, Alvin Dark, Bob (Mr. Team) Elliott, Jim Hegan, Tommy Henrich, Ben Hogan, Johnny Mize, Jackie Robinson, Johnny Sain, Vern Stephens, Doak Walker, and four-fifths of the 1948 Kentucky basketball team--Barker, Beard, Grozs, and Jones...
...less than ten of the athletes discussed are ball players, and come of them, like Hegan and Elliott, just don't merit the attention. Hegan is not a great catcher--he can't hit; Elliott is a mediocre third baseman; and men like Sain and Stephens are dubious choices. Mize, of course, should have been written up many years ago. He belongs to an older school of baseball players...
Then, in the ninth, the Giants' castoff Johnny Mize (sold to the Yankees last August) returned to haunt the National League. At bat as a pinch hitter with two out and the bases loaded, he connected with his second pinch hit of the Series, a line drive to the right-field fence. When Jerry Coleman singled a moment later, the Yankees...