Word: olmo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kind of ball Boss Jorge Pasquel paid them for, by last week were looking pretty sad. The league's leading batter (.383) was Cuba's Claro Duany; and the only high-priced U.S. batsman who was close was ex-Giant Nap Reyes (.375). Onetime major leaguers Luis Olmo, Danny Gardella and George Hausmann had sagged fought, out of the .300 class. The Card's fugitive Max Lanier had won six and lost one, but some of the home-grown pitchers were doing better. Pasquel's favorite club, Vera Cruz, well stocked with U.S. talent...
...look too bad under the pitiful lights of wartime U.S. ball, but would spend a lot of their time on the bench in 1946. Best known: the Giants' Napoleon Reyes and Danny Gardella, the Athletics' Roberto Estalella, the White Sox' Alejandro Carrasquel, the Dodgers' Luis Olmo...
...Dodgers' Branch Rickey, who spends slowly and talks fast, will miss Olmo, who batted .313 last year. Jorge Pasquel "liberated" Olmo from Rickey for $40,000 for three years...
...second game Brooklyn's Luis Olmo objected, more or less politely, to a strike called by Umpire Tom Dunn. Olmo: "You missed that one." Dunn: "You shut up." Olmo: "I won't shut up." That finished Olmo (fine: $50). For objecting to Dunn's action, Manager Leo ("The Lip'') Durocher also got the heave-ho. The Pirates, long experienced in treading the paths of banishment, began laying a carpet of towels for the Lip's exit. Durocher gave the towels a few kicks, then reached into a box of baseballs and scattered the pellets...
Nobody could quite explain the Dodgers' second-place splurge. They had been doped to waddle along in seventh place, or worse. But Manager Leo Durocher's pre-season prediction that he would uncork some useful pitchers had come true. The hitters, led by Puerto Rican Luis Olmo had made a habit of coming through in the clutch. These tangible assets, and the old Flatbush urge to die for dear old Durocher. had enabled the Dodgers to win eleven straight for a season record...