Word: leaguers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...third brother, Sarat Chandra Bose, now 60, fat and moonfaced, was Minister of Works, Mines and Power until the Congress in 1946 gave his cabinet job to a Moslem Leaguer. In a huff, Sarat Bose quit the Congress, organized his own Socialist Republican Party. He was in Switzerland, recuperating from a mild heart attack, when a by-election was scheduled for his brother Satish's legislative seat. Promptly he declared himself a candidate. Onto his bandwagon leaped opportunist Communists, disgruntled Socialists and rabid Hindu Communalists-all united against an old Congress Party warhorse, Suresh...
Died. Joseph Paul DiMaggio Sr., 77, retired Italian immigrant fisherman who became baseball's most famous father (sons: Joe of the Yankees, Dominic of the Red Sox, and onetime Major-Leaguer Vincent, now player-manager of the Class D Pittsburg, Calif. Diamonds); of a heart ailment; in San Francisco...
Emerson Dickman, former Red Sox pitcher who came out of retirement this season to coach the Tigers, claims that "pitching is 90 percent of college baseball . . . I want a tight defense and the best possible pitching." This sounds strange coming from an old American Leaguer, but Dickman, who worked for the Sox in the years just before the war, may have the pitching he is looking for in Bob Wolcott, Princeton's burler today...
...Trade Secrets. An exception to the rule that a player who doesn't graduate from Class D (baseball's lowest) after one or two years will never make a big-leaguer, Sain finally made the grade to Nashville. Then, in 1942, thanks to a wartime pitcher shortage, he found himself in a Boston Braves uniform for a while. But it wasn't until he joined the Navy that he learned some of the fine points. Says he: "If I made a bad pitch, it wasn't a threat to my bread & butter. So I went...
...Virtual Slavery?" Happy Chandler's attitude, expressed last week, was that "no major leaguer makes less than $5,000 a year and some make up to $100,000. If you call that peonage, then a lot of us would like to be in it." But Gardella had one answer to that: his salary with the Giants had ranged from $1,850 to $4,000. Judge Jerome Frank of the court of appeals had another: "Only the totalitarian-minded will believe that higher pay excuses virtual slavery...