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...pennant chase continued, an old clutch-hitter with a reputation for breaking up tight ball games and a well-known affection for Harriman was asked what he thought of the current crop. Said Harry Truman in Southampton just before heading home from his European tour: he didn't care to comment just now. But then, with Casey Stengel shrewdness, he added: "I'll have plenty to say later...
...week's end the Pirates were still handsomely in the first division, only one game back of the leading Cincinnati Redlegs. Hesitantly, softly, some fans in Pittsburgh were beginning to talk about the pennant (the last was in 1927, in the great days of Pie Traynor and the Waner brothers). But knowing what the pressure of July and August can do to a young ball club, many would gladly settle for any place in the first division. For the moment, they felt like the man who painted the Pirates' rosy picture. "I'm so happy about this...
Aside from 1950, when he pitched the Phillies to the National League pennant, Roberts has been playing for a club that has never wound up better than third. But over the years he has started, finished and won more games than any other active major-league pitcher. And always, even losing, he has found the plate with such grim routine that in an astonishing total of 2,272 innings of big-league ball, he has been charged with only 500 walks (less than two a game), has made only 19 wild pitches, hit only 28 batters. He has thrown...
...Tremendous Difference. Roberts professes to be unconcerned with the fact that he is using up his career pitching for a losing club. "Getting traded or staying isn't a deep ingrained thing with me," he says. "This club always could potentially win the pennant. Especially when I pitch, it isn't a fourth-place club. Usually they get the runs...
Died. Fred Merkle, 67, oldtime New York Giants first-baseman famed for a pennant-losing blooper in 1908 (see SPORT); in Daytona Beach...