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...league had to worry about whether Sawyer saw his team as a pennant winner or not: a hard-hitting outfield consisting of brawny Dick Sisler† (.367), fleet-footed Richie Ashburn (.296) and clutch-hitting Del Ennis (.304), and a bustling infield steadied by First Baseman Eddie Waitkus, recovered from his shooting by a deranged girl last year (TIME, June 27). With young Pitchers Curt Simmons (21), a lefthander, and Robin Roberts (23), winning a total of nine of their team's first 16 victories, while losing only three, Sawyer was watching "my boys" perform with pleasure and some...
Husky (6 ft., 190 Ibs.), prematurely grey Jackie Robinson, slugging second baseman of the Brooklyn Dodgers and the National League's most valuable player for 1949, served up a Louella Parsons-style program containing some gossipy nuggets. Examples: Eddie Waitkus, shot last summer by a love-crazed girl in Chicago, says he'll be in the Phillies' opening day lineup; the Yankees' Tommy Henrich is happier at first base than in the outfield, because in right field he "used to get so weary chasing pitchers' mistakes...
...Philadelphia Phillies wrangled with an insurance company over whether First Baseman Eddie Waitkus ought to get injury compensation for the bullet wound he got from a demented bobby-soxer last June. The ball club argued that Eddie was only doing "his proper duty in public relations" when he went to the girl's hotel room in the belief that she was from his home town and needed help...
Other local luminaries who will partake in the ceremonies are: Eddie Waitkus, Philadelphia Philly first baseman (out since May after being shot in a hotel room), Al Capp, author of "LIT Abner," actress Betty Field, and Mayor Michael J. Novilie...
...Cooperstown, N.Y., Baseball's Hall of Fame conscientiously wrote to Philadelphia Phillies First Baseman Eddie Waitkus for the .22 slug that an overenthusiastic girl fan fired into his lung in June...