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...baseball fan-including Wendell Willkie in Cairo, who reported he was "in a sweat" because he didn't know how the Dodgers had done for the last three games, and thus couldn't answer the main question of the U.S. troops in Egypt-knew that Buck Newsom was a natural Dodger. They were glad his fantastic Odyssey was over-Brooklyn to Jersey City to Macon to Little Rock to Chicago to Albany to Los Angeles to St. Louis to Washington to Boston to St. Louis to Detroit to Washington to Brooklyn again. They all knew...
That guesstimate started something. Owner Walter O. Briggs of the Detroit Tigers, considerably irked, announced that his pitcher Buck Newsom had been paid $30,000 last year, would get even more this year. Owner Bradley stuck to his big guns. Said he: "Feller is still the highest paid pitcher in baseball...
...Zanesville, Ohio, Mrs. Cleo Newsom complained to police of a thief who not only stole milk from her doorstep, but left orders for whipping cream...
Last week Old Bo-Bo brought his Pa, his Ma and his three sisters up from Hartsville, S. C. to watch him play in his first World Series. Father Newsom had never seen a World Series game, had only once in his 68 years been in a big-league ball park. With characteristic aplomb, Old Showboat predicted that he would win two World Series games. "Yeah, I'll outpitch Derringer," he drawled...
...Tigers took the third game, but Derringer returned in the fourth to make good, evened the series at two-all. Then Buck Newsom pitched again. While his teammates routed four Red pitchers, Big Buck allowed only three hits, shut out Cincinnati, 8-to-0. In the locker room after the game, Old Bo-Bo's stiff upper lip let go. "I pitched that game for my dad," he blubbered...