Word: strikeouts
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This opinion bears out this department's long-held thesis that good athletes are born and not made, although it may undermine the American Legion's baseball schemes, and wreak have with Bob Feller's royalties from "Strikeout Story...
...Cincinnati's Ewell Blackwell was the National League's strike-out king. He was baseball's top pitcher, with 15 wins, 2 defeats. He had also pitched 1947's first major league no-hitter (TIME, June 30). Already fans were comparing him to the great strikeout artist Bob Feller, who ducked last week's All-Star game because of a back injury (but pitched and won for Cleveland two days later...
...Feller of the Cleveland Indians had already won 21 (to 7 losses). He also had an ambitious eye on Rube Waddell's season strikeout record of 347. At week's end Bobby had struck out 262. If he failed to keep the pace, it would be partly his fault: Bobby, who decides which days he will pitch, tends to overwork himself...
...stole second. After Ralph Petrillo filed out, Bill Harford walked, and Bill Ayres poked a single down the right field foul line to send Coppinger across with the tying counter. At this point, Hill was yanked and reliefer Oscar Chapin retired the side on a pop up and a strikeout...
...leadoff man in this inning beat out an infield hit and moved along to second when the next man walked. When the following two batters went down on a strikeout and a pop fly, the pressure was off Wallace, but he suddenly went wild, tired badly, and walked three men in a row, forcing in two runs and leaving the sacks jammed. At this point, Coach Stahl yanked Wallace and called in Norm Wholley. Wholley took his warmup pitches, got the first batter he faced on a routine grounder to short, and the game was over...