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With the American League pennant odds even-Stephen at "6-to-5 and take your pick," the first-place Detroit Tigers limped into Washington last week for the payoff. Lefty Hal Newhouser (won 22, lost 9) had the miseries in his back; Slugger Hank Greenberg was out with a sprained ankle; Sparkplug Eddie Mayo had a wrenched shoulder...
After they drove knuckleballer Dutch Leonard (16-7) to cover-Leonard pitched the Tigers out of last year's pennant-40-year-old Doc Cramer broke up the party with a game-winning triple. Score: Detroit 7, Washington 4. In the nightcap, Rudy York shrugged off the menace of high-walled Griffith Stadium (the Senators have hit only one homer there all year) by belting his 18th. That helped Dizzy Trout (18-14) realize an iron-man promise to win five games in two weeks. Score: Detroit 7, Washington...
There were two key plays in Manager Steve's pennant drive. Last spring, he wangled Roy Cullenbine from Cleveland, laid it on the line in a single pep talk and got him squared away to the business of banging 17 homers (third highest in the league) and batting in 89 runs (second highest). And O'Neill had long since named his trump card by plucking veteran Catcher Paul Richards from the minors to handle Pitchers Newhouser and Trout (40 victories this year, a record 56 last year...
Feller might be back too late to lift the Indians to the top, but he would do his share to keep the American League pennant race up in the air. His first victory started the Tigers on a weekend skid, which should have dropped them into second place-but Washington conveniently flubbed four straight. The St. Louis Browns, up from sixth to third, closed...
Grimm's Cubs have pitching to match their hitting. Claude Passeau (won 14, lost 4) and Hank Wyse (18-8) are the two league-leading hurlers. Behind them is ex-Yankee Hank Borowy, whom the pennant-hungry Cub's management wangled out of the American League (TIME, Aug. 6) for a round $100,000 worth of players and/or cash...