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Basemen & Bailing Wire. In the National League, there was such a shortage of outstanding individual talent that no less than six clubs had a fighting chance for the pennant. The Brooklyn Dodgers were sifting and resifting young farmhands in a frantic search for a first-baseman who could hit. The latest of a long list of aspirants: a big Irishman from the Dodgers' Montreal farm by the name of Chuck Connors...
...Boston Braves, 1948 pennant winners, would lean again on the strong right arm of Johnny Sain (TIME, April 11), the best pitcher to come along since V-J day. In other camps, managers were racking their brains to plug holes in their lineups. The New York Giants had Johnny Mize and some other fence-busters, but Manager Leo Durocher was willing to put a pricetag on Mize or almost anybody else if it would bring him pitching. There seemed to be no eager bidders. No one had any marketable pitchers, and burly old (36) Johnny Mize was a property...
...Southworth of the Boston Braves may be prejudiced, but he is dead serious. "He's going to be recognized as one of the greats," says Southworth. Certainly, Johnny Sain's pitching arm was the biggest reason the Braves had for hoping to win their second National League pennant in a row. Last week in Bradenton, Fla., with the opener three weeks away, the arm was run through its first nine-inning test of the season...
...drinking," and later he joined the Free Press. As editorial director, Bing masterminded a story on an American Legion parade that won five Free Press reporters the Pulitzer prize. He began a daily column, "Good Morning," composed of topical comment, literary notes and bad puns. Later, when Detroit went pennant-crazy over its 1934 baseball team, he wrote a sports column as "Iffy the Dopester." Loaded with literary allusions and folksy idiom, the "Iffy" columns became a Detroit craze. There were Iffy clubs, cocktails and cushions, and the column now appears on the editorial page...
...cold-storage man, dropped $500,000 in five years. Donald Barnes, shrewd finance-man, gave it a whirl, got out while the getting was good. In 1945 Coal-&-Iceman Dick Muckerman stepped in. Save for the wartime year 1944, when the Browns surprised everybody by winning their first pennant since the American League was organized in 1901, the threadbare Browns went from bad to worse. About a year ago, the Browns sold a batch of their best players in order to stay solvent. The chief trouble, it seemed, was that St. Louis was a one-team town and the flashy...