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...Fadden to put together the muscle and bone in the left shoulder of southpaw Kubacki before the crucial final two games against Brown and Yale. "I'm getting treatment from Jack every day," Kubacki said Wednesday, "He's the best there...
Game 5 was the story of a young fastball pitcher and an aging power hitter. The pitcher, Cincinnati Southpaw Don Gullett, 24, fired the ball with such velocity that he retired 16 consecutive Red Sox batters in one stretch. Meanwhile Reds First Baseman Tony Perez, 33, who had gone hitless in the Series, cracked two home runs over the leftfield wall. The final margin: Reds...
When the Sox finally arrived just after 1 p.m., Timilty had moved on, but the thousands who remained broke into a sustained cheer. The noise grew louder as southpaw Bill Lee stepped forward, his Sox cap on backwards, his chin hidden by beard stubble, and raised a two-finger victory salute. Then Lee stepped back...
Clown Prince. Casey started playing summer ball in Kansas City-K.C. was the source of his nickname-to support himself while attending dental college. But he was a southpaw, Casey explained later, and the equipment of the period was geared for righthanded drillers. Like such other leftist talents as Leonardo da Vinci and Sandy Koufax, Stengel adjusted. He signed on at $75 a month with the Kankakee, Ill., club and immediately became the clown prince of the bush leagues. Running to his position, the outfielder liked to practice sliding into home plate en route. "There was a lunatic asylum...
Manager Darrell Johnson of the Boston Red Sox pulled a surprise Thursday by naming southpaw Bill Lee to start the second game of the World Series Sunday against the Cincinnati Reds...