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...more than his share of rags with the riches. Bouncing around between the major and minor leagues, Casey has gone through the familiar managerial cycle, sticking with his clubs when they are winning, getting the boot when they are down. Caroming from Worcester to the Toledo Mudhens (one pennant in six seasons) to Brooklyn (three raffish seasons) to Boston (six lean & lowly years) to Milwaukee (a pennant) to Kansas City (seventh place) to Oakland (three playoffs, one pennant), Manager Stengel has usually managed to rebound in the right direction. When Casey took over the victory-bent New York Yankees...
...runs and in home runs, owned the three top run scorers (Roberto Avila, Al Rosen, Larry Doby), the two top home-run hitters (Doby, 32, Luke Easter, 31) and the league leader in runs-batted-in (Rosen, 105). But the porous Cleveland infield (Easter, Avila, Rosen, Boone) let the pennant slip through buttery fielding fingers, while the Yankees kept on winning the big games...
...Rock was lucky to stop Jersey Joe (". . . he was way ahead on points"), it was agreed, and when someone mentioned that the Yanks had taken the Red Sox twice (". . . they're wearing black in Cleveland tonight"), the New Yorkers were conceded the pennant. Hardly had the question of whether Dick should give back the dog been raised, when a yell focussed attention on the near side of the field...
BOSTON, Sept. 25 (UP)--Big Chief Allie Reynolds, the strong-armed Indian righthander, assured the New York Yankees of at least a tie for the American League pennant today, pitching and batting the world champions to a 3-2 victory over the Boston...
...then Vic Raschi, Allie Reynolds, and Eddie Lopat won't be the three best money pitchers in the American Leage--as they are now. Instead it will probably be Tom Morgan, Whitey Ford or some kid still pitching for Tarriffville Junior High. Of course, its hard to win a pennant with only three pitchers (see Indians) and they'll need some aces like Bill Miller--if only against the Tigers--Bob Kuzava, and Bo Weisler...