Word: rizzuto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...line-up at the Norfolk Naval Training Station includes Phil Rizzuto, Don Padgett, Dom Di Maggio, Benny McCoy...
...service team that looks even better, at least on paper, is the one that wears the blue & grey of the Norfolk Naval Training Station. Last year the Sailors had only one great big-leaguer, Chief Boatswain's Mate Bob Feller (now at sea). This year, besides Rizzuto, McCoy, Dom Di Maggio and Padgett, the line-up includes two up-&-coming youngsters: First Baseman Eddie Robinson, onetime Baltimore Oriole, and Catcher Vince Smith, a fledgling Pirate who handled Feller's pitching last year. To replace Feller, the Sailors have Tom Earley (Braves), Walter Masterson (Senators) and Fred Hutchinson (Tigers...
...recent convert to baseball, Four-Striper McClure is now a rabid fan. When Seaman Rizzuto made a home run in a recent game with the Washington Senators, the Certain sprang off the players' bench, rushed out to shake his hand as he crossed the plate. During another game, when fly-chasing Di Maggio backed into a deep gully on the edge of the field, Captain McClure jumped into his private jeep, scooted across the field to see if he was hurt. The Captain is constantly tacking notices on the clubhouse bulletin board. The morning of a game with...
...fast becoming a sport for creaking oldtimers and freakish 4-Fs. Two hundred and one big-leaguers (more than 50% of the regular personnel) have joined the armed forces, including such key players as the Cardinals' Enos Slaughter and Johnny Beazley, the Yankees' "Red" Ruffing and Phil Rizzuto, Dodger Slugger Pete Reiser and Red Sox 1942 Player-of-the-year Ted Williams. Last week two more mainstays were headed warward: Yankee Joe DiMaggio and Dodger Manager Leo ("Lippy") Durocher...
...second game, with the score tied 3-to-3 and two out in the eighth, Slaughter slammed a line drive into right field, beat the throw-in to second base, streaked to third as Shortstop Rizzuto bobbled the ball. On Musial's single, he scored what turned out to be the winning run. Then, in the ninth, his bull's-eye throw from right field to third base saved the game for the Cardinals...