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...pride of Belleville, Ark., wearing a huge cud of tobacco in one cheek, forgot at times that it was only an exhibition game. "When I step on the field," Sain once said, "I'm not making a social call. I'm a professional baseball player doing what I'm paid for, which is to get batters out." Against one Cincinnati batter, he fired his big, jug-handled curve (the best in baseball), then a screwball, and then the fast one. The umpire's thumb jerked upward; the batter, Outfielder Frank Baumholtz, was out on three pitched...
...innings, Sain toyed with Cincinnati. By then his mates had built up a six-run lead. He eased up, won 8-3. Said Southworth, beaming: "He's a cinch to win 20 games...
...Nurse. That would be nothing new for John Franklin Sain Jr. For three years running he has won 20 or more. If he repeats this season, Sain will become the first National League pitcher to string four 20-game seasons together since the great Carl Hubbell. Others who turned the trick: Dizzy Dean, Grover Cleveland Alexander, Christy Mathewson, Joe Mc-Ginnity and Mordecai ("Three-Fingered") Brown...
...Pitcher Sain is a phlegmatic, self-disciplined ballplayer who needs no prodding or wet-nursing. He doesn't talk much; his wife declares she didn't know he was a baseball player until she was married to him. But there is nothing bashful about him when it comes to asking for more money-this season the Braves will pay him close to $40,000, one of the highest salaries in the National League...
...Sain feels that he is finally cashing in on the "years I was working for peanuts and learning how to pitch." For four years, beginning in 1936, he floundered in the lowest labyrinth of the minors-with Osceola, Ark. and Newport, Ark. It was the same story everywhere he played in those days: good curve, no fast ball...