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...Swede" Cook, manager of the Bunnies, faces the crucial day calmly as he places his trust in the big bats of Dan Phelan, Ben Miller, and Dick Oburchay, who have already led their softball team to the league pennant...
...most of the season the big question in the National League pennant race had been: what holds the Dodgers up? They had led the parade ever since May 24, at one time were 7 ½ games out front. Last week, a disastrous road trip-on which Brooklyn's Dodgers won 6, lost 10 (including four straight losses to the Cardinals)-seemed to have reduced the question to old rhetoric. The long overdue St. Louis Cards, for the moment at least were right there with them...
Whatever it was, it began to show up as soon as the season opened. Williams worked with the rest of the team instead of in grouchy solitude, and the Red Sox all but sewed up the American League pennant in the first six weeks. When he ignored the jeers of the fans, they gradually turned to cheers. But he still had enough of his prewar aloofness not to tip his hat to the customers, sometimes hung around the locker-room for three hours after the game to avoid hero-worshippers. Williams had only one trouble: he seemed to get musclebound...
...Cleveland Indians bloom in the spring, and look pretty on paper, but in 45 years they have won the pennant only once. Every summer Cleveland fans rise up and holler for an Indian's scalp-usually the manager's. This time they wanted to fire the owners...
...first, it looked like another self-imposed exile. Last summer, moody Joe McCarthy had gone over the hill in the heat of the pennant race, talked vaguely about resigning, and came back three weeks later. This time, he resigned and meant it. Said he: "I've been in this business for 40 years . . . that's a long time...