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Brooklyn's Jackie Robinson had done his part in the club's pennant drive, hitting .300 or a few points over or under and leading the league in stolen bases (25). Of the other four Negroes in the majors, the St. Louis Browns' Henry Thompson and Willard Brown had been released after a month's trial; Cleveland's Larry Doby was still hanging on, as a pretty impotent pinch hitter...
Died. Hugh McQuillan, 49, who pitched for the New York Giants in three successive pennant victories (1922-24) after being sold by the Boston Braves for $100,000; of cancer; in Queens...
Burst of Power. A last-place club last year, the Giants began to slug this year for reasons that have eluded analysis even by themselves.** With extra-base hitting and little else, they pulled themselves up to a pennant-contending position. Their leading home-run hitter is 34-year-old First Baseman Johnny Mize, who has hammered out 36 homers. Right behind him this week were young Outfielder Willard Marshall with 29; Veteran Catcher Walker Cooper with 26; and Bobby Thomson, rookie outfielder who has hit 23. Infielder Bill Rigney, who hit only three homers all last year, also climbed...
Even the most loyal of Ebbets Field fans has a hard time forgiving the Brooklyn Dodgers' worst habit: just about this time of year, when they seem to be heading for the pennant, they have a tendency to run out of steam. Last year, as in 1942, it was the St. Louis Cardinals who took the flag away from them. Last week the first-place Dodgers and the second-place Cards met in a crucial three-game series. By the time the series had ended, it looked as if the Dodgers might have cured their old weakness, would have...
...such a midseason series last year, the Cards started their pennant march. This year, playing before the biggest St. Louis crowds of the season, the Dodgers were almost as hot as the 100° weather. In the second game the Dodgers went into the ninth inning with a 10-4 lead. St. Louis fans were squeezing toward the exits when their heroes suddenly put on a sizzling six-run rally-after two were out-that tied the score at 10-10. It was in the tenth inning, and almost midnight, when the game was finally decided. The Dodgers, unshaken...