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Baseball got its first orders last week from Washington's economic mobilizers. Digging out an old regulation of the Wage Stabilization Board, WSB lawyers decided that St. Louis Outfielder Stan Musial may not pocket the $35,000 wage boost (up from logo's $50,000) which would have made him the third-highest salaried player in the game,* the highest salaried in National League history. No one in baseball, the WSB explained, may get a salary higher than the highest paid by his club...
...order will not affect players like Cleveland Pitcher Bob Lemon, whose $5,000 raise still leaves him well below the club ceiling (Pitcher Bob Feller's $50,000). But it was a rough jolt for Stan the Man, now 30, who knows that he has only five or six years more of big-league earning power at best. Cardinal President Fred Saigh immediately announced he would appeal the ruling. Major Leaguer Musial, who spent one earning year in the U.S. Navy, was not so hopeful: "If it's the law, there isn't anything...
...matches Bunny Lew Brown defeated Paul Trinchieri, 6-1, 6-3; Funster Mal Bell defeated Neil Shulman, 6-3, 7-5; Dunster's Pete Randall defeated Sam McClerd, 6-4, 6-2; Jim McCormick of Leverett defeated Hugh Raphael, 6-2, 6-3; Dwight Bartlett of the Hutch defeated Stan Gill, 6-4, 2-6, 6-4; and Bunny Ed Wilford defeated Don Keller...
...Thin Red Line of Heroes gets thinner every year. Stan Musial, Enos Slaughter, Al Schoendienst, and Joe Garagiela are the backbone of a fine club, but the rest is unconvincing...
...through the U.S., the same thing was going on last week. In Milwaukee, Fifth Army buyers paid $20 and $25 for items the Army had sold for $1. In Philadelphia, Army trucks drove up to Stanley Bernstein's Stan Textile Co. to haul away three truckloads of "surplus" war goods it had bought back from Bernstein...