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Stealing the limelight this week from the two pennant races will be the latest Congressional investigation of baseball's reserve clause. The clause, binding a player to one club for the whole of his baseball career, was first seriously challenged in 1947 by returning Mexican League jumpers. They chained that they were being denied a livelihood because of the clause. At that time, Danny Gardella and others settled their cases out of court, reputedly for a fabulous sum. Baseball's moguls settled back and relaxed again...
...writers) were shaking their heads in mild dismay. Two teams which were almost unanimous choices for the second division, the St. Louis Cardinals and the Washington Senators, were bouncing around the top of the National and American Leagues. The New York Giants, dark horse choice for the National League pennant, sweated out an eleven-game losing streak before they finally beat the Dodgers, 8-5, and began their drive to get out of the cellar...
...Lopez has an outside chance to win the pennant in his first year running the Cleveland Indians. The best pitching in the league and a good outfield and catching crews will need plenty of help from the infield if the Indians are going to best the Sox or Yanks. The corners are in the capable hands of Luke Easter and Al Rosen, but Bob Avila and Ray Boone are yet to be proven around the keystone...
...Dudley, pennant-winner last year, grabbed an early two-run led on Jack Collins first-inning single. But Bunny right hander Cy Lippmann steadied, although he weakened in the fifth to allow three more runs...
...driving Stanky spirit is one big reason why the New York Giants may be a serious pennant contender again this year, for the first time in thirteen lean seasons. During the last half of last season, while the Philadelphia Whiz Kids were staggering erratically to the pennant (won m the last game of the season), Durocher's Giants were playing the best ball (50 victories in 72 games) in the National League. Durocher sees no reason why the Giants should not continue that pennant-winning pace. "We're a far better ball club now than at this time...