Word: southpaws
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boston Red Sox; the major-league bidding for Dick Callahan, 19, prep-school pitcher-of-the-year in New Orleans. The winning bid: a $350-a-month contract plus a $15,000 bonus, biggest ever paid a prep-school recruit. Southpaw Callahan wears a brace on his left leg, the result of a fracture suffered in a game five years ago. The Navy gave him a medical discharge after seven months. For New Orleans' Holy Cross this season, he pitched 26 consecutive hitless innings, 86 strikeouts...
Chief Crash Davis' B team, which last week pounded out a 5 to 1 victory over the Boston Navy Yard Marines, will face a team from the Coast Guard Receiving Station tomorrow. Southpaw Sid Greeley will probably start for the Crimson. The game begins at 3:15 o'clock on the main diamond at Soldiers Field
...Southpaw Greeley, who had been pitching for the B team, relieved Wallace. He yielded four runs, including a towering home run in a wild eighth inning, but finished the game with no further damage...
...swank Southampton, suburban Rye, businesslike Forest Hills-will still be in the game. But the one player with top-flight memories for the gallery is likely to be 30-year-old veteran Sidney Wood. Two favorites for National Championship honors are the two-hander Francisco Segura of Ecuador and southpaw Seymour Greenberg, graduate of the public parks. At their best, none of these can touch the all-round brilliancy of Big Bill Tilden or Fred Perry, the pyrotechnic power of Ellsworth Vines, the high-gearing of Donald Budge. It will be a season of ghosts and neophytes, with the color...
Besides Williams and Pesky, two ex-Red Sox who need no introduction to anyone who has glanced at a sports page in the last two years, the naval team has oodles of talent. On the mound will be Johnny Sain, ex-Braves southpaw, who sparkled in relief work and as a starting pitcher. His catcher will be Fred Naumetz, center and co-captain of the Boston College football team last fall...