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NATIONAL LEAGUE Team: Brooklyn (by 8½ games) Pitcher: Roe, Brooklyn (13-2) Batter: Musial, St. Louis (.371) Runs Batted In: Snider, Brooklyn...
...rookie manager Marty Marion has the same trouble as the Giants: only two regulars are hitting. Stan Musial and Red Schoendienst just have not been able to make up for the sudden failure of Country Slaughter, while first and catcher have not been strong spots in the batting order. And the older pitchers, Brecheen, Lanier, Wilks, Pollet, are over the hill...
Baseball got its first orders last week from Washington's economic mobilizers. Digging out an old regulation of the Wage Stabilization Board, WSB lawyers decided that St. Louis Outfielder Stan Musial may not pocket the $35,000 wage boost (up from logo's $50,000) which would have made him the third-highest salaried player in the game,* the highest salaried in National League history. No one in baseball, the WSB explained, may get a salary higher than the highest paid by his club...
...Feller's $50,000). But it was a rough jolt for Stan the Man, now 30, who knows that he has only five or six years more of big-league earning power at best. Cardinal President Fred Saigh immediately announced he would appeal the ruling. Major Leaguer Musial, who spent one earning year in the U.S. Navy, was not so hopeful: "If it's the law, there isn't anything I can do but abide...
...Thin Red Line of Heroes gets thinner every year. Stan Musial, Enos Slaughter, Al Schoendienst, and Joe Garagiela are the backbone of a fine club, but the rest is unconvincing...