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...master of three outfielding arts: 1) on a long fly ball over his head, he takes one look, turns his back and digs for the spot where the ball will drop; 2) he has patiently acquired the knack of picking caroms off the tricky right-field wall at the Polo Grounds; 3) his buggy-whip arm has enabled him to set a league record for starting double plays from the outfield (twelve in one season...
...place club, they are far from being the pushovers they used to be. Besides Outfielder Tommy Holmes, who is the National League's fancy .402 batting leader, this year's edition offers some promising rookies and a brand-new home-run aptitude (thanks, partly, to a shortened right-field fence). The Braves also have a new boss, Contractor Louis Perini, who seems bent on buying new talent...
...bats, stepped up to the plate with choppy little strides of his matchstick legs. Farmer Johnson shuffled awkwardly around the mound, his long right arm winding up the historic sidearm delivery. The first pitch was low and inside, the second a called strike. Ruth popped the third into right field, the fourth was ball two. Then the crowd let out a mighty roar as the Babe walloped the ball up, up, up into the right-field stands. Fourteen pitches later, he clouted another, trotted around the bases and called it a day. Old Barney had got only three strikes...
...Chicago tailor, he worked his way through the University of Illinois, was good enough at football to be named on one of Walter Camp's All-Americas, good enough at baseball to get a job after graduation with the New York Yankees. When Babe Ruth moved into the right-field spot Halas had hoped for, Halas moved out, to become athletic director for Staley Starch Products Co. at Decatur...
...young Hostak, who has lost only one of his 59 professional fights. ¶The minor-league Albany Senators: an exhibition game (at night) against the major-league Brooklyn Dodgers, 7-to-6; during which 44-year-old Dodger Babe Ruth smacked a ball over the right-field fence for his first homerun in three years; before a record-breaking crowd of 11,724 who had stormed the ball park to see him do just that; at Hawkins Stadium, Albany. For his accomplishment, 240-lb. Babe Ruth, like every baseballer who gets a homer in Hawkins Stadium, received a case...