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...Detroit's Tigers, still cocky because of their potent pitching pair-Dizzy Trout and Hal Newhouser, who racked up a record of 56 wins last year-still cannot pretend it isn't painful to have lost Slugger Dick Wakefield (.355) and Pink) Higgins...
...Cardinals. For offsetting Detroit's Hal New-houser and his fabulous 20-to-9 pitching record was the decline of Dizzy Trout (27-14), who had lost twice in the crucial last week and seemed to be overworked. Even the Tiger slugging combination of Rudy York and Dick Wakefield might have been less effective than Luke Sewell's magically managed horseshoes. The Cards, despite their 2-to-1 bulge in the betting odds, were none too confident about their first streetcar World Series...
...time Detroit had taken two out of three from the Yankees, four straight from the Red Sox, Dizzy Trout had pitched his 26th victory of the year and Lefty Hal Newhouser his 27th. Meanwhile the Tigers' unstoppable young leftfielder Dick Wakefield had taken over the league leadership with a batting average...
Parson Weems sold his books at fairs, races, sittings of county courts from New York to Georgia-between times "beating up the headquarters of all the good old planters and farmers . . . regardless of roads horrid and suns torrid." He sold Paradise Lost, The Vicar of Wakefield, Robinson Crusoe, Cook's Voyages, the works of Voltaire, Tom Paine and Bunyan and Bard's Compendium of Midwifery, which he touted as "the grand American Aristotle...
...Dizzy Trout (won 23, lost 10) and Left-hander Hal Newhouser (22-8), had a good chance of exceeding Dizzy & Paul Dean's 1934 total of 49 wins. To aid and abet this outstanding pitching, the Tigers had Sluggers Rudy York (16 home runs) and Navy-released Dick Wakefield. Pitcher Trout himself was the sluggingest pitcher in the League, with five home runs to his credit. But if hitting would do it, the Red Sox were in. The club led the League in batting, boasted the three top individual averages. One of the three, however, was brilliant Second Baseman...