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...Cleveland, in the 21st annual All-Star baseball game, American League sluggers overpowered the National League's best, 11-9. Paced by Indian Al Rosen's two homers (which drove in five runs) the American League finally won for Manager Casey Stengel (on the fifth try), helped set a pack of All-Star records in the process. Among them: a total of 31 hits, 20 runs, 13 pitchers used, gate receipts...
...three straight years the club started the race like champions. For three straight years they folded in the stretch. This year they did not even start well. Ten games into April, they had won only four. The man who prodded them out of the doldrums was Al Rosen. The American League Most Valuable Player of last year, Al Rosen, third baseman, made a quick switch to first, played like a practiced veteran, and opened a spot in the lineup for a flashy, hard-hitting rookie named Rudy Regalado. The Indians started after the lead. Now that Regalado is slumping...
...Hard Way. Rosen's old-pro versatility has not come easy. As a prewar bush-leaguer he seemed so hopeless in the field that a Class C manager took one scornful look and said, "Listen, kid, you'd better go home and get yourself a lunch pail. Forget about baseball. You either have it or you don't. You don't." Al ignored the advice...
...until 1950, with three years in the Navy and five years in the minor leagues behind him, did Al catch on as a Cleveland regular. Even then, it was his powerful bat that made him. In the field, Rosen admits, "I've got to work and keep thinking. When I don't, I'm bush league, or worse...
Clearly, he has kept working. Behind the Indians' fine pitching staff, Wynn, Lemon, Garcia, Feller & Co., he almost always turns in a creditable performance. At the plate he is always a threat. In all pennant-hungry Cleveland, there is no happier sight than Al Rosen, firmly established in the batter's box. The ball steams in, his hips swing in a fast little shake, his left leg lifts for a quick thrust forward, and the big bat whips around. It has connected often enough to make him the league's second-ranking batsman, after his teammate Bobby...