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...Billy Southworth, manager of the Boston Braves, signed the biggest contract in baseball, for five years...
Nobody paid much mind to Manager Billy Southworth when he sounded off about Spahn in Florida: "He'll win 20; he'll be one of the best." Every manager has a right to talk that way about a prospect in training and, besides, wasn't this guy a lefthander? By this week, Warren Spahn was making other National League managers sit up and take notes on him, and making Southworth look very right indeed...
...Stacy B. Southworth...
...Braves might make the first division if Billy Southworth's methodical magic worked and Mort Cooper's ailing arm got well. Pittsburgh and Cincinnati seemed to be heading for the lower half. The biggest little effort would come from the Phillies, managed by onetime Yankee Ben Chapman. They had corralled every available has-been from both leagues, to try to get out of the cellar...
...Boston job would require all his skill and a generous share of Braves President Lou Perini's fat bankroll. It was a good bet that Southworth would soon corral, at a fancy price, some of the players who had hustled for him in St. Louis. It was equally likely that he would go on working wonders like his 1945 Card trick with Pitcher Charlie Barrett. Barrett, a no-count Brave tossed into the $50,000 deal for Mort Cooper, won 21 games for St. Louis under Southworth's persuasive handling...