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...Boston (Sain) 7, Chicago...
...Boston (Sain) 6, Brooklyn 5 (10 innings--night...
...Boston Braves, 1948 pennant winners, would lean again on the strong right arm of Johnny Sain (TIME, April 11), the best pitcher to come along since V-J day. In other camps, managers were racking their brains to plug holes in their lineups. The New York Giants had Johnny Mize and some other fence-busters, but Manager Leo Durocher was willing to put a pricetag on Mize or almost anybody else if it would bring him pitching. There seemed to be no eager bidders. No one had any marketable pitchers, and burly old (36) Johnny Mize was a property...
...league baseball season opens today with games scheduled in Boston and Washington; tomorrow the rest of the clubs swing into action. At Braves Field this afternoon Johnny Sain will pitch against the Philadelphia Phil's Ken Heintzelman, while in Washington; the Philadelphia Athletics' Dick Fowler will face the Senators' Ray Scarborough...
...Trade Secrets. An exception to the rule that a player who doesn't graduate from Class D (baseball's lowest) after one or two years will never make a big-leaguer, Sain finally made the grade to Nashville. Then, in 1942, thanks to a wartime pitcher shortage, he found himself in a Boston Braves uniform for a while. But it wasn't until he joined the Navy that he learned some of the fine points. Says he: "If I made a bad pitch, it wasn't a threat to my bread & butter. So I went...