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Borowy, who promptly won his first start for the Cubs, might well nail down the pennant for them. In return MacPhail said that the Yankees would get unnamed players worth $100,000, or their cash equivalent. He added: "This is the first step in the general plan [for rebuilding] that Manager McCarthy and I have agreed upon...
...that wallop (and a repeat three days later), ex-Captain Greenberg: 1) began earning his $55,000-a-year salary, baseball's highest (for 60 days at least his pay remains at the 1941 rate); 2) made the front-running Tigers odds-on to win the American League pennant; 3) gave a psychological lift to some 500 big-leaguers still in the service...
...Brooklyn won the pennant and the Giants got a new manager: Melvin Thomas Ott, the club's slugging right fielder with a peculiar but potent cocked-leg stand. The feud was and still is in flower, but hard as they tried, the Flatbush faithful could not hate stumpy, boyish Mel Ott. The Dodgers have outclassed the Giants in recent years, but they still respect Enemy Agent...
...reason why the Yankees stayed in the pennant race was apple-cheeked Hank Borowy (won 8, lost 2), with help from Swampy Donald and Floyd Bevens (they had nine wins between them, four defeats). Detroit had the best southpaw in the business, Lefty Hal Newhouser (9-4), with three stalwarts to lick him up. Also comfortably ahead of their bat ting competition: the Athletics' tall, thin submariner, Russ Christopher (10-2); Washington's knuckleballer Dutch Leon...
...season, gone all the way each time, allowed one lone earned run in the 36 innings and breezed to four straight wins. His combination fast ball and curve have taken the play from his dazzling mound-mates Dizzy Trout and Hal Newhouser, who almost won last year's pennant for Detroit. Last week, Connie Mack said that Detroit was the American League team to beat-mainly because of the added oomph which Al has given the Tigers' pitching staff...