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...sudden emergence as a baseball town, as if it had never been one before. When Joe Torre was just a plump kid of 13, his brother Frank was a slick-fielding first baseman for the Atlanta Crackers of the Southern Association (Double A). The Crackers took the pennant that year-and 15 other years too. Only the New York Yankees won more pennants, and no home team was better loved...
Coach Joe Duff is counting on captain Bob Adrion (4-2) to anchor the staff, with help from sophomore Jon Rees (4-0) and reliever Craig Gibson. As a unit the pitching corps is improved from last year but their inexperience may catch up with them if the pennant race gets tight in the later going...
INFIELD: Unquestionably the deepest in recent years, this bunch will likely rival the pennant-winning infield of 1980 in skill by season...
DIED. William DeWitt, 79, hustling, persuasive baseball-club owner and executive, affiliated with nine pennant winners in both leagues, who began his 50-year career selling soda in St. Louis' Sportsman's Park; in Cincinnati. In 1944, DeWitt, general manager of the hapless St. Louis Browns, helped drive the team to its first and only pennant. His astute trades while general manager of the Cincinnati Reds helped "the Ragamuffin Reds" clinch the pennant in 1961, the club's first in 21 years...
...according to Fusco, a freshman experiencing his first ECAC pennant race, that's good news...