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Last weekend the Philadelphia Phillies came home to Shibe Park after a seven-day road trip. In the first of a four-game series with Brooklyn, they gave the Dodgers the bum's rush, 8-to-2. They lost the second game on a seventh-inning homer, 3-to...
He got Jimmy Wasdell from the Pirates, Babe Dahlgren from the Dodgers. Dahlgren is now leading both leagues with a batting average of .351 ; Wasdell is hitting around .300. But the clinching stroke that has given the Phillies a winning combination was trading Outfielders Earl Naylor and Danny Litwhiler (Litwhiler...
With these hustlers in the lineup, Cox's collection of castoffs won eight of their next ten games. They did astonishing things, such as scoring nine runs in one inning to snatch a game from the high & mighty Dodgers; then, just to prove that it was no fluke, scored...
The Phillies are not a great ball club, perhaps not even a good one, according to peacetime standards. But Manager Harris is working wonders with the material at hand. No martinet, like the Pirates' Frankie Frisch or the Dodgers' Leo Durocher, he gives his players plenty of rope...
Students who refused to register for the draft drew his rebuke, also the warning that Union would not become "a haven for draft dodgers." No admirer of Communism (he said Union could not be made "the guinea pig for some future Soviet"), he admires the Russian people enough to be...