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Pitcher: Feller, Cleveland (22-7) Batter: Fain, Philadelphia (.332) Runs Batted In: Williams, Boston (116) Zernial, Philadelphia (116) Home Runs: Zernial, Phila...
...game. Meanwhile, as Western fans see it, the Pacific Coast cities are permanently condemned to second-grade baseball, played mainly by greenhorns and has-beens, while the big league teams in the East drain off such stars as Joe and Dom DiMaggio, Larry Jansen, Gene Woodling and Ferris Fain as fast as they come up. The draft has a double effect: a club lucky enough to develop two or three standout players in a season must usually sell them all to the highest bidders rather than risk losing one of them for the $10,000 price...
...Navy Mothers' convention in New York in 1946, Mrs. Fain heard that a Marine gunnery sergeant named Rosindo A. Tiritilli had been her son's closest companion in the Philippines. The Fains wrote to Tiritilli, who had survived Corregidor and 32 years of Japanese imprisonment. The sergeant responded with a 14-page letter about Truman Fain. Other letters followed, but gradually the correspondence dwindled...
This year, Joseph Fain began to fail; he had an incurable cancer of the throat. He told his wife that he had one great desire: to meet Tiritilli face to face and hear more about Pfc. Truman Fain. Last week Fain got his wish. At the Fain family's request, the Navy Department took Sergeant Tiritilli-a husky, somber soldier of 30-away from his duties at Norfolk, flew him to Independence. Fain was dying by the time the sergeant arrived at his bedside. But when his wife whispered the visitor's name, Fain opened his eyes, smiled...
...hours after Tiritilli spoke to him, Joseph Fain died. Said the sergeant: "He couldn't say anything. But he had a look in his eyes...