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Baugh let his passing arm do the talking for him. Year after year his slingshot passes-bullet "buttonhooks" or pinpointed "floaters"-found their mark on the field and in the National Football League record books. He picked up such nicknames as the "Redskin Rifle," the "Sweetwater Stringbean," and, naturally, "Slingin' Sam." And in the rough & tumble N.F.L., sinewy Sam Baugh, the kid who was once considered too fragile for college football, never once had a serious injury, never broke a bone...
...piece of news: it was his last game with the Redskins. He shook hands all around, then made his speech: "Now go out there and win that game for me." The Redskins did in a shifting, fast-moving finale that included passes by the aging master, 35-year-old Slingin' Sammy Baugh, and Understudy Harry Gilmer, a skittering, 74-yd. run down the sideline by Pete Stout. After coming from behind to win, 27-14, the Redskins carried Coach Whelchel off the field on their shoulders...
Sammy, a crack football man in all branches, earns $15,000 a year for pitching passes in baseball style.* They are quick, hard, fast and accurate. Most go for only five to 15 yards. Against the Giants. Slingin' Sammy's 16 bull's-eyes were worth only 199 yards. But they set up the first two touchdowns, and four Baugh bullets in a row covered 46 yards for the final score...
...Redskins. For drawing power, the Washington Redskins are again the No. 1 team this year. They have 1942's national championship and Slingin' Sammy Baugh. Their laundryman owner, Gorgeous George Marshall, is the slickest promoter in the game. Last week Baugh & Co. won their fourth straight...
...game. Since they teamed up. Isbell-to-Hutson has become to football what Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance once was to baseball. This season, completing 117 passes in 206 attempts (for a gain of nearly a mile), Green Bay's Isbell has put Washington's "Slingin' Sammy" Baugh in the shade...