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When high-strung Lou Boudreau, the Indians' manager and shortstop, juggled his line-up last week and lost a game, there were public mutterings that maybe Club President Bill Veeck should have fired him last year, after all. One afternoon Boudreau sat listening to a broadcast of a Boston Red Sox game. He raked his hair with his fingers and exclaimed, "Jeez! Jeez!" every time the Sox scored. The Sox, under square-jawed Manager Joe McCarthy, seemed a shade less panicky. They had power to burn-what they prayed for was pitchers able to last nine innings. This week...
...pitcher." Satchel† Paige was born in Mobile, Ala., 39, 43 or more probably 45 years ago, son of a landscape gardener and a mother who hated baseball. He was one of a family of nine-or sixteen. This mathematical inexactitude did not trouble Cleveland's President Bill Veeck last week. For all Veeck cared, Satchel might be "two or three decades" older than the next man-as long as he could pitch. Bob Feller had told Veeck that Paige was the relief man the league-leading Indians so desperately needed...
Last week, just before signing Paige (for a reported $10,000 for the rest of the season), Bill Veeck watched him throw about 50 assorted pitches to Manager Lou Boudreau, second best hitter in the American League. Only three or four were wide of the plate, and most of them had stuff. In his two-inning relief debut against the St. Louis Browns three days later, Satchel allowed two singles, no runs, struck out one, walked nobody...
...Afield he looked a little slow (his brittle ankles were troubling him again), but he still had the uncanny knack of outguessing the ball that made him the league's top shortstop last year. As a manager, Boudreau has been somewhat less phenomenal. Yet when President Bill Veeck tried to trade Boudreau off last season (the club finished fourth), Cleveland fans flooded Veeck with 10,000 letters demanding that Boudreau be kept. He was on a $50,000-a-year contract...
Another champion was acting the part last week, after a slow start. Rapid Robert Feller won No. 17 for the season, as many as any American League pitcher. Cleveland Indian Owner Bill Veeck (rhymes with neck) celebrated the occasion by giving Feller a $40,000 bonus. Added to his regular salary, this will bring 28-year-old Bobby Feller's 1947 pitching earnings well over $80,000-the highest Babe Ruth ever made in one year...