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At Brooklyn's Ebbets Field, one day last week, 28,000 Kings County baseball fans solemnly sang The Star-Spangled Banner, climax of an elaborate Flag Day ceremony. Then they sat down to watch the Dodgers and the Cincinnati Reds, running neck & neck for the lead in the National...
When the sun had set that afternoon, the Dodgers were one up on the Reds. Luke Hamlin had pitched a two-hit shutout, had chalked up a 2-to-0 victory. But Brooklyn's cheers were all for swart, swaggering, 28-year-old Joe Medwick, who, in his debut...
Joseph Michael ("Ducky") Medwick is one of the hardest-hitting outfielders in baseball. During eight seasons with the St. Louis Cardinals, he averaged .338 at bat, drove in 873 runs and scored 771 runs himself (including 145 homers). Last year, when Leo ("Lippy") Durocher left the Cardinals to become manager...
President MacPhail two years ago offered Cardinal President Sam Breadon $200,000 for Medwick. Breadon h-mmmm-phed. Last year, when he repeated his offer, Breadon h-mmmm-phed again. Last week, with the Cardinals in seventh place and hopelessly out of the running, Breadon finally surrendered. To Brooklyn went...
As Thursday's CRIMSON - Lampoon bingle-bust looms ever closer on the sports horizon, independent experts point knowingly to the defeat Saturday of the Brooklyn Dodgers by the Cincinnati Reds by the "highly significant" score of 23 to 2.