Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Feller might be back too late to lift the Indians to the top, but he would do his share to keep the American League pennant race up in the air. His first victory started the Tigers on a weekend skid, which should have dropped them into second place-but Washington conveniently flubbed four straight. The St. Louis Browns, up from sixth to third, closed...
...more on such older nags as Valdina Orphan ($100,000), Attention ($55,000) and Rounders ($50,000). His prize bust was the $66,000 spent for Pericles as a yearling in 1943. Pericles' hooves proved too brittle to carry his outsized weight well; he has never run a race...
When his business manager told him that racing cost him $450,000 to operate last year, Willie could afford to ask, and did: "So what?" Yet he never bets more than a piddling amount on a race. Not that he isn't a gambler. When he bought $125,000 worth of horses from General Motorsman Henry Knight this year, he offered to flip a coin, double or nothing. Knight hesitated for a moment, then settled for a straight sale...
...close a race could easily be jiggled, and last week American League managers saw, with a mixture of hope and horror, exactly what might do it: star players fresh out of G.I. uniforms. Washington had already been blessed with the return of Outfielder Buddy Lewis; Lewis was hitting a fancy .356. Charlie ("King Kong") Keller had come back, too, but too late to save the staggering Yankees. Cleveland's warpath Indians, who had just reclaimed (from a Texas shipyard) a potent hitter in Les Fleming, this week were due to get the cream of the crop- Fireball Bob Feller...
Sense & Nonsense. It would take more than a handful of G.I.s to change the National League race. On their farewell swing through the East last week, Charlie Grimm's rampaging Chicago Cubs added to their impressive lead. They were now comfortably ahead of the only team that could make trouble for them-the second-place St. Louis Cardinals...