Word: stan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Walter Van Stan, Jr. '47, 24, Camden, N. J., Dunster House, History, House athletics...
Five in Ten? The wonder was that either team was even a pennant contender. The Dodgers did not have a single 20-game-winning pitcher; the Cards had one, Howie Pollet. The Dodgers had two regular .300 hitters (Dixie Walker, Augie Galan); the Cards had three, including League-Leader Stan Musial. But when it came to managers, the Dodgers had a big edge: at getting the most out of his mediocre material, the Cards' polite little Eddie Dyer was no match for flamboyant, volatile Leo the Lip Durocher...
...Baseball-savvy Corum calls the game as he sees it, ignores official scorers and managers (he has been an official scorer himself). Last year, when the scorers charged Hank Greenberg with a twelfth-inning error in the sixth game, Corum calmly said the play was a base hit for Stan Hack. "I told 'em that I could see the play better than anyone else-our broadcasting booth was in left field-and I saw the ball bounce over Hank's head; he never got a glove on it." At 10 o'clock that night, the official scorers...
...club that Eddie Dyer now has is no worldbeater. It has four .300 hitters Stan Musial, Enos Slaughter, Red Schoendienst and Whitey Kurowski-but like Brooklyn, it is weak in catching and has no pitcher, except perhaps Howie Pollet, likely to win 20 games. The Cards got back in the running largely by Dodger default, but in their recent home-stand they had won 16, lost 6. Still, the aged Cubs, last year's winners and now in third place, might yet give both the Cards and Dodgers...
...first meeting of a newly-formed committee to work for repassage of the original OPA act is scheduled for 1:30 o'clock this afternoon in the American Veterans Committee office in Phillips Brooks House, Stan Geller, organizer of the committee, announced last night...