Word: boudreau
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...ball"-a buna-S core instead of last year's apathetic balata-may enliven hitting. A Cleveland Indian who last season batted .222 tried the ball at the Lafayette, Ind. training camp last week, promptly hit a home run. "If the cover was any tighter," reported Manager Lou Boudreau, "it would be a golf ball...
...replace box-office stars gone to war, every club had to load up with run-of-the-mill players brought up from the minors or oldsters rescued from oblivion. Cleveland Indians Manager Lou Boudreau had to put a sportswriter at third base to muster two teams for a practice game. The Giants desperately and futilely combed the field for a proper first baseman. The Brooklyn Dodgers congratulated themselves on having acquired one player (Bobby Bragan) who could double as catcher and shortstop, an other (42-year-old John Cooney) who provided triple insurance as pitcher, outfielder and first baseman. Said...
...between picked teams of American and National Leaguers. The Americans, hopping on the National's super-duper Pitcher Morton Cooper before he had worked the dampness out of his mighty right arm, scored three runs in the first inning, starting with a homer by Cleveland's Lou Boudreau on the second pitch. That was enough to win the game (3-to-1) and the chance to represent the big leagues in the skirmish with Uncle Sam's club in Cleveland the following night...
That, too, was settled in the first inning, and once again by American League power. The Red-White-&-Blues had Sluggers Cecil Travis, Sam Chapman, Don Padgett, and Morrie Arnovich; but they were no match for razor-sharp batsmen like Ted Williams, Lou Boudreau, Joe Di Maggio, Rudy York. So Manager Mickey Cochrane, onetime Tiger mastermind, stepping out of comfortable retirement last spring to take over the barnstorming baseball team of the Great Lakes Naval Training Station and drafted to manage Uncle Sam's allstars, had to rely on superior pitching...
Littauer Fellowships have been awarded to: Gilbert R. Barnhart, of Washington, D. C., A.B. Syracuse University '38, Administrative Assistant, Office of Budget and Finance, United States Department of Agriculture; Alexander J. Boudreau, of Ste. Anne de la Pocatiere, Quebec, B.S.A. Laval University '33, Field Representative of Department of Fisheries, Ottawa; Arthur D. Bouterse, of Richmond, Va., A.B. Asbury College '28, A.M. University of Chicago '36, Supervisor of Research and Statistics, Department of Welfare of Virginia, 1936-1941, at present a student in the School; Victor H. Bringe of Madison, Wisc., B.A. University of Wisconsin '41, Administrator of Residence Halls, University...