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Dickson, less rugged than most pitchers, relies on a rich assortment of what baseballers call "stuff." He throws six types of pitches (fast ball, curve, slider, knuckler, sinker and screw ball). Says he: "Sometimes early in a game, some of them aren't working so well. So I drop the bad ones and stick with the ones that will do me the most good." All of them were working against the Yankees that...
...reading it first in TIME, I took it to be a bit of South-baiting, a habit I think TIME sometimes has, and which makes my bristles rise. So, I rose for the bait, and took it, hook, line, sinker...
Eddie Dyer had so many pitchers he needed toes and fingers to count them. Most promising: a 30-year-old Oklahoma newcomer, chisel-chinned ex-Corporal Fred Martin, who has poise, a sizzling fastball, a good curve, a tricky sinker and, most important of all, control. Everywhere Manager Dyer looked he saw more talent than he could use. His problem: which players-especially which pitchers-to sell...
...human skull resting in a bowl of roses, "to make some mistakes your first year. We all do. I got in with some thoroughly objectionable . . . men who ran a mission to hop-pickers in the long vac. But you, my dear Charles . . . have gone straight hook, line and sinker, into the very worst set in the University. . . . There's that chap Sebastian Flyte you seem inseparable from. . . . [He] looks odd to me. ... Of course, they're an odd family...
What he lacks in experience (one season in the Piedmont League, two Army years with the Randolph Field team) is heavily outweighed by 23-year-old Dave Ferriss' superabundant self-confidence. The batters say he has a deceptive motion, almost uncanny control, a natural sinker, a sidearmed curve that is murder for right-handed batsmen. Almost alone, ambidextrous Ferriss boosted the slow-starting Red Sox from last to third place...