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...have already toppled. First it was the Boston Braves' Tommy Holmes, who couldn't get his team out of seventh place. Then it was hard-bitten Rogers Hornsby, manager of the sagging St. Louis Browns. Next came Eddie Sawyer, who managed his Philadelphia "Whiz Kids" to a pennant in 1950, but could not get them out of the National League's second division this year. Last week Robert ("Red") Rolfe, onetime New York Yankee third baseman, became the fourth to go. After 3½ years on the job, he was fired as manager of the last-place...
...Irish Pennants & Beards. Manning drives himself as hard as his men. He keeps his sturdy (5 ft. 7½ in., 160 Ibs.) frame in tiptop shape by boxing every day (he used to spar with ex-Lightweight Champion Benny Leonard), and does not smoke or drink. On board his ship, he wakes up every morning at about 6:30 for coffee in bed, takes a quick look topside before a breakfast of orange juice, eggs, toast and more coffee. The first day out he spends the morning making a stem-to-stern inspection, in which the smallest Irish pennant (loose...
...June to be wallowing in seventh place. Last week, following baseball's usual law-replace a losing manager -the Braves fired Holmes. The new manager: Jolly Charley Grimm, 53, a onetime slick-fielding first baseman for Pittsburgh (1919-24) and Chicago (1925-36) and a three-time pennant-winning manager of the Cubs...
...just so happens that the Red Sox did the only thing possible to preserve their already slim pennant chances...
John Lipon and the venerable Dizzy Trout won't mean much in the grand scheme of things, true. But Hoot Evers could bring the pennant to Fenway. He's fast, he's strong, and although he didn't hit a loud foul all last year, he can be a big man at bat. He proved that...