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...season prognostications, experts figured the Cardinals would finish third, as they did last year. The team relied on a mighty slugger named Slaughter and two other outfielders who hit over .300. They had First Baseman Johnny Mize, No. 1 home-run hitter of 1940. But their pitching was questionable, their fielding unreliable. To replace Outfielder Joe Medwick, Pitcher Curt Davis and Catcher Mickey Owen, three Old Reliables recently sold to the rival Brooklyn Dodgers, Manager Southworth had brought up a batch of green rookies from the Cardinals' far-flung farms...
...Crosley Field 18,000 agonizing fans crammed into the grandstands. Twisting their scorecards, they watched big Paul Derringer face the formidable bats of Enos Slaughter (.321), Joe Medwick (.333), Johnny Mize (.351) and Don Padgett (.410)-baseball's hardest-hitting quartet. Derringer had won 24 games this year, had struck out 124 batters and walked only 35. Yet even his most devoted admirers feared the worst...
...only started to shine. For the rest of the game he held the crowd spellbound with his masterful control, his baffling change of pace. Not until the ninth inning did a National Leaguer get another hit. And that one Feller swiftly brought to naught by striking out Cardinal Mize and Cub Hack and winning the ball game for the American League...
...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...
Some observers, however, believed that the President genuinely meant to econo mize, was attempting it by a piece of characteristic Rooseveltian strategy. If he had cut his Relief figure below $1,500,000,000, Congressional spenders would have gobbled up the difference for pet projects not under direct White House control. Therefore, instead of making a forthright effort to balance the Budget by reduced appropriation or increased taxes, the President was deliberately setting up a deficit in order to scare Congressmen out of further spending. When Congress had adjourned he could set about economy by spending less than...