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...bounded into third place in the final National League standings last year, lethargic Philadelphia fans, long used to their last-place finishes (eight in the last 13 years) became moderately aroused. Last week, with the Phillies challenging the Brooklyn Dodgers for first place, nearly everybody in Philadelphia was talking pennant...
Pleasure & Surprise. Meanwhile, the Phillies were winning ball games on hustle, good pitching and the best club batting average in the league (.270). Among their assets, which the rest of the league had to worry about whether Sawyer saw his team as a pennant winner or not: a hard-hitting outfield consisting of brawny Dick Sisler† (.367), fleet-footed Richie Ashburn (.296) and clutch-hitting Del Ennis (.304), and a bustling infield steadied by First Baseman Eddie Waitkus, recovered from his shooting by a deranged girl last year (TIME, June 27). With young Pitchers Curt Simmons (21), a lefthander...
...Catcher Stan Lopata ($25,000) and Third Baseman Willie Jones ($16,000). Others on the club were also costly, but Sawyer must play these youngsters (who, under bonus rules, may not be returned to the minors for seasoning) in order to justify their price. Other managers with pennant contenders use risky bonus players as bench blankets, take no chances...
...pennant," said Manager Joe McCarthy of the Boston Red Sox this spring, "but I will say this-the Red Sox will make runs." As the 1950 major-league season began last week, McCarthy was proved quite right; after four innings of the opening game, the slugging Sox led the world champion New York Yankees, 9-0. From the Boston viewpoint, the trouble was that later in the game Joe DiMaggio & Co. drove in nine runs in a single inning, eventually...
...Pennants are never won on paper, and for the past two seasons the Sox have been nosed out of the race on the last day. This year, as last, the Yankees may well outrun them, but no expert would care to guarantee the outcome of the 1950 race. As the Yankees' manager, wily old Casey Stengel, puts it, "We'll all be knocking our heads together this year . . . Detroit is much better. Cleveland will be a lot tougher, and so will Connie's Athletics." (The A's are out to win one more pennant...