Word: players
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whom shrewd baseball men were touting as the player to watch in 1949 was Cleveland's 25-year-old Negro centerfielder, Larry Doby. Speedster Doby showed plenty of promise last year until, toward the end of the season, pitchers made a discovery: a dust-off ball, thrown in an early inning, could upset Doby's stance for the rest of the day. Doby began to slam fewer clothesline drives to the fences. If he could learn to handle the treatment, baseballers thought he might even be another Joe DiMaggio...
...Pittsburgh Pirates had climbed into the first division last year, with the help of bailing wire and Manager Billy Meyer; they still needed help at first and third. In St. Louis, the Cardinals had Stan Musial, now generally conceded to be the most valuable player in the game; they were in the position of hoping Stan would be enough...
...When the Argentines took the field at Los Angeles last week, against a hand-picked U.S. team, they learned that it was to be a championship match-and they let out a roar heard halfway to Buenos Aires. They had left flamboyant, red-headed Roberto, a nine-goal player,* at home. They played the match under protest...
...varsity lost all those games, but they were to southern colleges that have been on the greens since February, and the scores were better than last year. Nothing is known about the Clark team, except that its coach is an ex-Harvard player, Walter Butler, of the 1947 team...
...varsity victories over North Carolina last Monday were scored by Howie Swartzman, number six singles player, and by the first doubles team of Bud Ager and Captain Ted Bullard. North Carolina and Harvard had hoped to play a second match on Tuesday but a rainstorm flooded the courts...