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Eddie Stanky, still "The Brat" at 34, and still one of baseball's top leadoff men (127 walks last season), finally achieved his ambition: a big-league managership. Second Baseman Stanky fired the Brooklyn Dodgers to a pennant in 1947, the Boston Braves to another in 1948, and the Giants to their first in 14 years last fall. Next year, as player-manager, Stanky will see what he can do to rekindle the old "Gas House Gang" spark for the St. Louis Cardinals (at a reported $37,000 a year...
...Newcastle, to dedicate a new engineering section at Kings College, the Duke of Edinburgh unfurled for the first time his own personal standard, recently approved by his father-in-law. Three feet long and two feet wide (impaled with his own arms and those of Elizabeth), the pennant includes a total of ten lions: six English, three Danish and one Scottish...
...with war profits, had organized the famed "outlaw" Midwest League, and were recruiting Big Leaguers for their teams. Fairless was given the job of rounding up a team, the "Agathons." He managed it so well-smoothing" over the constant squabbling of the stars-that the Agathons won the league pennant. Fred Griffiths, impressed by Fairless' peacemaking talents, threw him a trickier pitch...
Married. Ralph Branca, 25, Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher, who last month threw the home-run ball that gave the Giants the National League pennant; and Ann Mulvey, 20, daughter of James A. Mulvey, one-fourth owner of the Dodgers; in Brooklyn...
...gesture that Durocher would have disdained a year ago, he patted Thomson on the back. "Boy," said Leo in fervent, fatherly tones, "if you ever hit one, hit one now." Thomson did, high, wide & handsome. His home run, plunk into the left-field stands, won the game and the pennant...