Word: pitcher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nurse. That would be nothing new for John Franklin Sain Jr. For three years running he has won 20 or more. If he repeats this season, Sain will become the first National League pitcher to string four 20-game seasons together since the great Carl Hubbell. Others who turned the trick: Dizzy Dean, Grover Cleveland Alexander, Christy Mathewson, Joe Mc-Ginnity and Mordecai ("Three-Fingered") Brown...
...Pitcher Sain is a phlegmatic, self-disciplined ballplayer who needs no prodding or wet-nursing. He doesn't talk much; his wife declares she didn't know he was a baseball player until she was married to him. But there is nothing bashful about him when it comes to asking for more money-this season the Braves will pay him close to $40,000, one of the highest salaries in the National League...
...Trade Secrets. An exception to the rule that a player who doesn't graduate from Class D (baseball's lowest) after one or two years will never make a big-leaguer, Sain finally made the grade to Nashville. Then, in 1942, thanks to a wartime pitcher shortage, he found himself in a Boston Braves uniform for a while. But it wasn't until he joined the Navy that he learned some of the fine points. Says he: "If I made a bad pitch, it wasn't a threat to my bread & butter. So I went...
...Quantico Marines, Georgetown, and Navy are expected to provide the toughest games of a tough week. The Leathernecks are coached by Captain Raymond "Hap" Spuhler, who learned his baseball at Duke from Jack Coombs, the former great Philadelphia Athletics' pitcher. Coombs and McInnis played together with...
Georgetown's victory over Dartmouth, defending Eastern Intercollegiate League champs, speaks for itself. The Navy game next Saturday is the official League opener and the Middles, although they lost the loop's second best, pitcher when they lost Ronnie Burton, are still potent...