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...began his big-league career as a crack southpaw pitcher for the Boston Red Sox. But he was also a slugger without peer, and when he clouted most of his record 714 home runs, he wore a New York Yankee uniform, played the outfield. Son of a Baltimore saloonkeeper, he was brought up in a Baltimore school for delinquents, and he never quite grew up. In his first years in baseball, he scoffed at training rules, took his drinks where he found them, abused umpires, once chased up into the stands after an abusive...
Washington's George Marshall, vacationing in Sun Valley, Idaho, saw brief action in the daily softball game. Getting a good grip on his lip (see cut), he took his cut from an open southpaw stance, grounded out to the pitcher in the first inning, then sat out the rest of the game...
...Eastern Intercollegiate League by letting Ira Godin unfurl his right arm against the Ithaca Redmen who stand right in the middle of things--having won three and lost three. Opposing Godin will be either Al Neimoth, a righthander with a 4-1 record, or Kenny Battles, whose southpaw efforts stopped Pennsylvania with a cool three-hitter...
...baseball season, a giant of a man (6 ft. 4½ in.) limped out to pitch for the Philadelphia A's. On his left leg Leland Victor Brissie, 23, wore two socks and a plastic shin guard. He was not only a rookie but a southpaw to boot, and Plate-Umpire Cal Hubbard got set for a flurry of wild pitching. But the rookie's "live" fast ball cut the plate and his curve snapped over for strikes. Red Sox sluggers got only two hits in five innings...
Middle strength lies both in pitching and fielding. Their best man, acc southpaw Dick Burton, will not work today, for Coach Max Bishop will need him tomorrow when Navy meets Dartmouth at Hanover. The two teams are currently tied for League leadership with three wins apiece...