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...Manager Durocher sees it, "the Giants were weakest last year in bench [i.e., reserve] strength." This year something new has been added in Catcher Rafael Noble (TIME, April 2), Pitcher Roger Bowman (16-11 with Jersey City last season), Infielder Art Wilson, "who could play shortstop for anyone," and Utility Man John ("Spider") Jorgenson, "a good little left-handed hitter...
Best of all, Durocher still had the double-play combination of Eddie Stanky and Shortstop Alvin Dark. Last season the Giants made 181 double plays, 13 short of the league record. Records don't impress Stanky: "What counts is if you can make the one that'll win." That was just the kind of talk that had optimistic Leo Durocher smiling happily to himself. "We've got good spirit," he beamed. "They think they can win. That's what counts...
...Louis Cardinals, who finished out of the first division for the first time in twelve years, already had the resignation of Manager Eddie Dyer. Last week they gave the job to gangling Martin ("Mr. Shortstop") Marion, 33, an infield star of Cardinal teams for the past ten years. Said Marty, the youngest manager in the majors: "I'm going to do my best to win the pennant...
...long, lanky shortstop, who has been with St. Louis for 11 years, signed a one-year contract for an undisclosed sum. He succeeds Eddie Dyer, who quit in November after the Cards finished fifth...
Last year Lou slowed down at the plate, benched himself half the season in favor of agile young Shortstop Ray Boone. The Indians, a red-hot pennant contender in August, cooled down in the September stretch while Manager Lou, always at his best as a field leader, sat on the bench nursing a sickly .269 batting average and a pair of sore, 33-year-old legs. Cleveland's new manager: 42-year-old Al Lopez, once (1947) a second-string catcher for Boudreau, since then a highly successful manager for the Indianapolis Indians. At week...