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¶ In Boston, the disappointing Red Sox fired Lou Boudreau, onetime boy wonder with the Cleveland Indians, and called up Michael Franklin ("Pinky") Higgins. A capable third baseman on the champion Red Sox of 1946, Pinky has been managing in the minors ever since. ¶ In Washington, the stumbling Senators...
All of a sudden, men with money on Cleveland remembered that the Indians had fattened on the Humpty Dumpties of the American League; Giant pitching had held its own against some tough customers: the Milwaukee Braves, the despised Dodgers, the hard-hitting Cardinals. They also recalled that Willie Mays had...
Closest race for a line in baseball's record book was the tight fight for the National League batting title-and it went right down to the wire. Coming up to the plate on the last day of the season, the league-leading Giants' Willie Mays and Don...
¶ In Washington, the sadly slumping Senators fired Manager Bucky Harris after five losing years, were reported ready to hire Chuck Dressen, who led the Brooklyn Dodgers to two successive National League pennants (1952-53) before being fired himself. In New York, after his first losing season in six years...
¶At Detroit's Briggs Stadium, the Cleveland Indians edged out the Tigers, 3-2, and clinched the 1954 American League pennant. In Philadelphia the longtime (five years) champion New York Yankees scrambled for a 6-5 victory over the Athletics to nail down second place. Meanwhile, in the...