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...Flying Squad. Back home in St. Louis, the Cards have a thoroughly renovated stadium. There is a new tile drainage system for the playing field, and every tired old seat has been replaced or repaired. Outfield fences have been shorn of advertising (even Budweiser signs are absent) and painted a deep, simple, hitter's green. Among other things, there are 16 luxurious boxes where, for $2,500 a season, upper-bracket fans can whoop it up with waiter service; all 16 are already rented for the season...
...grew up in the "railroad section" of Bakersfield. He earned his spending money as a newsboy, a railroad callboy, a freight hustler, a farm hand and a cub reporter on the Bakersfield Californian. At Bakersfield's Kern County High School, he played clarinet in the school band and outfield on the baseball team. At the University of California, he was full of fun but not of diligence. He was a popular member of the Gun Club, which headquartered at Pop Kessler's saloon, and he flunked second-year Greek. He graduated from the university's law school...
...will be discharged from active duty next week after his release from the Naval Medical Center at Bethesda, Md., where he is taking treatment for an ear infection. Aviator Williams, with 38 Korean combat missions behind him, will play "the last six weeks of the season in the Boston outfield," said happy Red Sox Manager Lou Boudreau...
...Pittsburgh, canny Branch Rickey, general manager of the Pirates, traded his most valuable gate attraction, Outfielder Ralph Kiner (and three other players) to the Chicago Cubs in exchange for six players and a bundle of cash. In Slugger Kiner, 30, the Cubs drew a home-run champion of the major leagues for the last six years, promptly put him to work in the same outfield with Hank Sauer who tied Kiner in homers last year (37). Chicago also picked up Kiner's $75,000 salary, second highest in baseball (after St. Louis Cardinal Stan Musial's). Rickey...
...softball team finished second. The Funster team was Herb Berger at first, Gerstein, second, Requardt short, Daryl Hawkins third, Marty Doctoroff catching, Ted Johnson, Bob Walser and Wade in the outfield, and either Otis "Ki" Dewan or Denn Spencer pitching...