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...years with the St. Louis Cardinals and the New York Giants. On August 23 last year, the Giants waived him out of the league and sold him up the river (Harlem) to the Yankees. He played in only 13 games for the Yanks, mostly as a pinch-hitter, but he got into his first World Series. He pinch hit twice, in two games, hit two singles, and batted in two runs, one of which won a game...
...Pinch of CO2. Coca-Cola has avoided the deadly sin of most modern business enterprises: over-organization and overcentralization. The only thing that Coca-Cola sells, outside of the U.S., is its secretly compounded concentrate. This is the same as it was in the day (1886) of Dr. J. S. Pemberton, who invented Coca-Cola-it was then green and supposed to cure headaches. The raw material is shipped to a dozen Coca-Cola-owned plants around the world, and sold to bottlers...
Turner, who had given up only scattered hits until the ninth, allowed Tiger catcher Will Prior his fourth straight single in the first half of the inning and Prior scored on a pinch hit single by John Emery. With the game tied, one out and two men on base, Emmons entered the ball game and issued two straight walks. The second walk, to shortstop Jim Fairfield, forced in the winning...
...doubles picture. Although not quite consistent enough to take their match, the second doubles combination of Mitch Reese and Bob Bramhall pushed their opponents to three sets before succumbing. And Goodman and Combs showed that there is at least one third team that can come through in the pinch...
Levinson suddenly lost control in the bottom half of the tenth, leading the bases on walks, but pinch hitter Gordon Ellis ended the threat and the game by grounding into an easy double-play...