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American League. For the sixth successive year, the New York Yankees are favorites to win the American League pennant. From the high-powered machine that finished 17 games ahead of their nearest rival last year, the Yankees have so far lost only one cog: First Baseman Johnny Sturm. To replace him, Manager Joe McCarthy has two candidates: Oldtimer Buddy Hassett (recently purchased from the poor Boston Braves) and a promising rookie named Eddie Levy. Among a half-dozen other Yankee farmhands considered to have enough savvy for the Big Team this year are Pitchers Johnny Lindell and Hank Borowy...
...Louis Browns, only big-league club that has never won a pennant, have neither power nor pitching to boast of. Nevertheless, with Newcomer Luke Sewell as manager and a flock of promising young rookies, St. Louis is considered a good bet to finish in the first division this year. Bookmaker Jack Doyle rates the Brownies a 10-to-1 shot to win the American League pennant-shorter odds than he quotes for either the Detroit Tigers or Cleveland Indians, winner and runner-up respectively two years...
...Rickey dreamed up the farm system, i.e., buying minor-league clubs and developing young players on them. At first the other big-league teams hooted at "Rickey's chain gang," but by 1926 it began to pay off spectacularly. That year the Cards won not only the pennant but the World Series...
...Edgar, operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week, the Oregon Shipbuilding Corp. yards were launching two ships a week by February 1942. By the middle of March the yard had launched 20, delivered nine, sent a tenth ship on her trial run. Award: a Navy pennant emblazoned with the famed "E" for Excellence...
Hornsby's first managerial job was with the St. Louis Cardinals. Taking over a team that had finished fourth the season before, he whipped it into such shape that it not only won the National League pennant but beat the mighty Yankees in the World Series of 1926. Three months later, Owner Sam Breadon sold his miracle-manager to the New York Giants. Reason: a salary dispute that prompted Breadon to say he would rather go into the ring with Jack Dempsey than argue with Rogers Hornsby...