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Pedro Ramos, who snuffed the Red Sox in last year's opener, will be on the mound for the Senators as they try to begin this season in better style than they ended the last, when they dropped their final thirteen contests. Jack Harshman will be hurling for Baltimore, but the Orioles may have to play without Billy Klaus, a one-time Red Sox hopeful, who injured himself in his bathroom Monday night...
...that the situation there is still far from clear. This left only pitching, the most uncertain part of the pre-season prognosis--"and the most crucial," as Shepard said with some emphasis. Through the whole of the afternoon he had paraded one man after another to the Briggs Cage mound, as part of an almost desperate search to uncover some new pitching talent. So far, apparently, the search has not turned up any new Bob Fellers...
...postponement, and Inao's luck changed. He beat the Giants 6-4. Next day he relieved in the fourth inning, won his own game 4-3 with a tenth-inning homer. Inao got a two-day break as the teams switched cities, then he was back on the mound again. He hurled a three-hit 2-0 shutout to square the series, returned the next day to apply the clincher 6-1. "Unbelievable." said Eddie Stanky of the touring St. Louis Cardinals. "He looked as if he could pitch another nine innings." Said Inao: "I was tired after three...
Ryne Duren, Casey Stengel's flame-thrower who followed Whitey Ford and Art Ditmar to the mound, fired his blinding fast ball past the Braves from the sixth to the 10th when he suddenly lost his stuff. The big fellow with the thick glasses struck out the side in the sixth and ninth, fanning eight in 4 2/3 innings before he faltered with two out in the 10th...
Israelites on the Plain. In the land of the Bible, diggers probed into ruins and legends that were old when Britons did not exist and Romans were savages. On the narrow coastal plain of southern Israel stands a rounded mound 100 ft. high covering 50 acres. It is a "tell," a heap of debris, hiding the remains of an ancient city. Israel is lumpy with tells, but this one is more famous than most because Archaeologist William F. Albright...