Word: weintraub
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from bailing out the culprit pitchers, as Ottie hoped, the hitters have flopped too. Disaster is contagious. If Ott didn't know that 37-year-old Ernie Lombardi couldn't go on hitting home runs right & left, and that 38-year-old Phil Weintraub was a chronic slumper (and a strictly minor-league first baseman), he was whistling alone in the dark...
Lombardi, N. Y. 25 Weintraub, N. Y. 23 Nieman, Boston 24 Olmo, Brooklyn...
...York 7 Lombardi, N. Y. 7 Weintraub, N. Y. 7 Nieman, Boston...
This week, thanks mainly to the slugging of moody Phil Weintraub, big-beaked Ernie Lombardi and stumpy Manager Mel Ott (total ages no years), the Giants strutted at the top of the National League ladder with a won-lost count of 21-to-6. The veteran trio reached its peak of efficiency with a homer apiece in a single inning while copping four straight from the Chicago Cubs. Other reasons for cheer in the Giants camp: the unbeatable pitching of Bill Voiselle (8-0), the fine shortstopping of Buddy Kerr, the .347 hitting of Napoleon Reyes...
After such treatment, 40 minutes of brawling basketball is sport. Last week Coach Weintraub's rowdies slapped Tuley High School around, 32-10-21, to win their fifth West section championship in Chicago's High School League. The Commandos are still far behind Passaic (N.J.) High School's 20-year-old record of 159 straight games, but they seem dead certain to end the season with...