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After the second game of the World Series last week, a wag remarked that it looked like a Two-Buck Series. Heroes of the first two games were two Bucks: Detroit's Buck Newsom and Cincinnati's Bucky Walters...
...opener, held at Cincinnati's Crosley Field, Buck Newsom was selected as the starting pitcher against Paul Derringer. Derringer is probably the smartest pitcher in baseball. But Buck Newsom, also known as Old Bo-Bo and The Old Showboat, was not alarmed. A cocky, 32-year-old righthander who had roamed the major leagues for ten years but had never wound up on a pennant-winning team, Newsom had told the baseball world before the season started that he would pitch Detroit into winning this year's American League pennant...
CINCINNATI--After 21 years, the Cincinnati Reds won their second World's Championship, by conquering the Detroit Tigers 2-1 in the dramatic, nerve-tingling seventh game, which saw Big Paul Derringer triumph over swashbuckling Bobo Newsom...
Rather than waste Buck Newsom or Schoolboy Rowe against Cleveland's Boy Wonder, Manager Del Baker started Floyd Giebell, a right-handed rookie brought up from Buffalo only ten days before. A gawky stringbean who had lost more games this season than he had won, Rookie Giebell looked like a sacrificial lamb as he ambled out to the mound. But no lamb was Giebell that day. With cunning change of pace and the control of an oldtimer, the green-as-grass rookie shut out the Indians...
...busy to worry about propaganda is bustling Director Newsom. His job is to keep the Writers' Project on something like an efficient basis. Says he cheerily: "Our nose is clean...