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...blurting that his 1940 salary of $12,500 was chicken feed for a star of his magnitude, and for saying, in a rare moment of complete discouragement, that he would rather be a fireman than play baseball. The fans razzed him for seeming to loaf in the outfield, and for ignoring the tradition of tipping his cap to the applause after he had hit a home...
Manager Billy Southworth of the Boston Braves had good reason to be happy during spring training, which is a notably optimistic time of year anyhow. After one of the largest rebuilding jobs in major-league history (TIME, Dec. 26), Billy finally had an outfield. He had given up his keystone combination of Alvin Dark and Eddie Stanky to get Sid Gordon and Willard Marshall from the New York Giants along with Infielder Buddy Kerr and Pitcher Sam Webb. On top of that, his bosses, Boston building contractors, had shoveled out $100,000 and three players to get fleet-footed Rookie...
Opening day is still five weeks away, but in the first exhibition game of the training season last week, Billy tried out his new outfield against Brooklyn's National League champion Dodgers. The Gordon-Marshall-Jethroe trio bashed out seven hits, drove in six runs; Jethroe got a single and a double. In the ninth inning, after an intentional pass and a hit, Sam Jethroe took a lead off third base. Rookie Brooklyn Pitcher Billy Loes had heard about those 89 stolen bases for Montreal; he got to worrying. Trying to pick Sam off third, he tossed a wild...
...served up a Louella Parsons-style program containing some gossipy nuggets. Examples: Eddie Waitkus, shot last summer by a love-crazed girl in Chicago, says he'll be in the Phillies' opening day lineup; the Yankees' Tommy Henrich is happier at first base than in the outfield, because in right field he "used to get so weary chasing pitchers' mistakes...
...there when the ball comes down. Nobody, not even Bill Cunningham, will be able to rave about Jethroe as a defensive player. And Sam is already 30 years old, with not more than four or five years of good baseball in him. Since Rickey's present outfield averages 25 years, why should be add an old man of 30 and bring up the average...