Word: basemans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...important almost as their fast balls is the fizz of excitement the McDaniel boys have injected into the Cards. Behind the McDaniel-fortified pitching staff, the Cards' aging stars are bursting with new life. At 36, First Baseman Stan Musial is no longer able to play through both games of a doubleheader, has a little trouble now and then getting his legs to catch up with pop fouls. But he can still hit a baseball with deadly precision, is second in the league in batting (.342), homers (21), and runs batted in (67). Giant castoff Shortstop Al Dark...
...Third Baseman Don Hoak, who was ready to quit baseball when the Chicago Cubs sent him to Cincinnati this season, remembers how Birdie took him aside in spring training and said: "You just can't hit .215 and play in the big leagues. Now you're going to do things my way and see how we make out." Hoak has been making out so well that he is third in the league in Runs Batted In (49). Says he: "Birdie's the guy who helped me-the helpful little things, the kind of little things that...
...ninth inning of a game with the Pittsburgh Pirates, Johnny Temple, Cincinnati Redleg second baseman, let a hot grounder sizzle through his legs, looked up to see the Scoreboard flash "error." and began a slow burn. After the Redlegs lost in the 11th, 3-2. Temple spotted the official scorer, Sportswriter Earl Lawson, in the clubhouse. "What was I supposed to do with that ball?" snapped Temple. "Shove it in my ear?" Said Lawson: "Grow up, John." Temple started swinging. The brief fracas cost Lawson one black eye. Temple a temper-cooling $100 fine...
...fast ball, and Ditmar dropped. Men from both sides piled in. Even with the Chicago cops to help them, the umpires took 28 minutes to put down the fight. By then, Yankees Enos Slaughter and Billy Martin had been ordered off the field, along with Chicago's First Baseman Walt Dropo and Doby. (All four, plus Ditmar, later drew fines from League President Will Harridge.) The rest of the battlers dusted themselves off and readjusted blood pressures and the Yankees went on to win. 4-3. But they were still four games behind the Sox. wobbling sulkily...
...Drysdale faced Batter Johnny Logan and threw as if discretion demanded a duster. But Shortstop Johnny failed to duck. Drysdale's high hard one hit him in the back. Once more, one word led to another and Shortstop Logan steamed toward the pitcher's mound. Dodger First Baseman Gil Hodges started for Logan, Milwaukee Coach Johnny Riddle started for Hodges, and the fight was on. By American League standards the affair was a flop, lasted a mere five minutes. Out of the game went Logan and Drysdale. For his belligerence Logan drew a $100 fine; despite his beanball...