Word: sluggers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...season prognostications, experts figured the Cardinals would finish third, as they did last year. The team relied on a mighty slugger named Slaughter and two other outfielders who hit over .300. They had First Baseman Johnny Mize, No. 1 home-run hitter of 1940. But their pitching was questionable, their fielding unreliable. To replace Outfielder Joe Medwick, Pitcher Curt Davis and Catcher Mickey Owen, three Old Reliables recently sold to the rival Brooklyn Dodgers, Manager Southworth had brought up a batch of green rookies from the Cardinals' far-flung farms...
...games for the tail-end Phillies' last year; 2) onetime Cardinal Mickey Owen, a Grade A catcher; 3) onetime Pirate Paul Waner, seasoned outfielder; 3) Second Baseman Alex Kampouris, who led the International League in home runs last year. Besides, they have mighty Joe Medwick, the slugger whom Boss Larry MacPhail bought for $132,500 last summer, only to have him beaned and made ball-shy for the rest of the season. This spring, comforted by a bean-proof plastic headguard which all Dodgers are compelled to wear inside their caps, Muscle Man Medwick seems to be back...
...half a million dollars for players. They gave the American Association's Louisville Colonels $75,000 for Infielder Peewee Reese. They gave the St. Louis Cardinals $200,000 for Outfielder Ducky Medwick. Last week, while Rookie Reese was on the side lines with a broken heel bone and Slugger Medwick was hitting like a bush leaguer, Brooklyn fans crammed Ebbets Field to salute the player they consider the most valuable Dodger of the year: Pitcher Freddy Fitzsimmons, a Giant castoff picked up for a song three years...
...sodas when he was a boy). He can and does bed & board 72 guests at a time, sometimes entertains up to 400 guests a week. Often as not they include overalled members of the six-team Onaway softball league which Maxon finances. He is the league's leading slugger...