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After three weeks of play in baseball's Jubilee Year,* the experts (i.e., the baseball writers) were shaking their heads in mild dismay. Two teams which were almost unanimous choices for the second division, the St. Louis Cardinals and the Washington Senators, were bouncing around the top of the...
Closest of all to form-in their own way -were the unpredictable Brooklyn Dodgers. They won games that were all but lost with flourishing rallies in the late innings. But they booted games that were already in the bag. Against Cincinnati last week the Dodgers got four walks, 14 hits...
As the first east-west swing got under way, the experts were not talking quite so confidently as they had a month ago. But most were still sticking to their pre-season predictions: in the American League, Boston, New York or Cleveland (in that order); in the National League, the...
Cleveland's faith in its Negro players marked the distance Negroes have coma in baseball since Jackie Robinson first barged through the major leagues' unwritten color line to join the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. This year at least 14 Negro players are sure to stick in the majors...
During World War II, Weinberg taught draft dodgers how to simulate deafness, heart trouble and other disorders rating 4-F classification, at fees from $200 to $2,000. Caught, he was sentenced to seven years in prison in 1943. Paroled in 1948, Weinberg, still on probation, drifted casually into the...