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...Youngest team, as figured by statistics-minded Brooklyn Boss Branch Rickey: his own Dodgers, with an average...
...four-game series. In the first inning of the first game, Brooklyn Pitcher Elwin ("Preacher") Roe tempted Outfielder Stan Musial with a slow, change-of-pace curve; Musial eyed it carefully and whaled the ball over the right-field fence. In his box, the Dodgers' Branch Rickey generously remarked: "That Musial is a great hitter." The wallop was just a foretaste of what was going to happen to Brooklyn. The Cards won that game, 3-1, won the second game...
Died. Sam Breadon, 72, longtime president of the St. Louis Cardinals, who ran his original $200 investment to some $3,000,000 by the time he sold his stock in 1947 after 30 years; of cancer; in St. Louis. Breadon (and onetime associate Branch Rickey) built up the far-flung Cardinal chain system (at one time they owned 16 farm teams, had working agreements with twelve others), which paid off handsomely: Breadon's high-flying Cardinals won nine National League pennants, six World Series, earned more than $8,000,000. Breadon, who said that he had never seen...
...Magr. Rickey said the Center "hasn't in any sense, been a part of the Harvard community for some time...
...rest of the team breaks down into a competition between Tim wise and Al Switzer for the regular first base job, a four-way scramble for the right field berth, and a fight between Bill Rickey and Charlie Cabot to see if Henry Young plays short with Hickey at third or third with Cabot at short...