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...Braves might make the first division if Billy Southworth's methodical magic worked and Mort Cooper's ailing arm got well. Pittsburgh and Cincinnati seemed to be heading for the lower half. The biggest little effort would come from the Phillies, managed by onetime Yankee Ben Chapman. They had corralled every available has-been from both leagues, to try to get out of the cellar...
...word occurred more often in Nurnberg's testimony than the word "death." It buzzed through the quadrilingual earphones: "Tod . . . mort . . . smert . . . death." It screamed from the piles of transcribed Nazi speeches: "Death for the Poles! . . . death for the Russians! . . . death for the Jews! . . . death for the traitors! . . ." But in the six weeks the U.S. and British prosecutors had taken to present their meticulous case, no one had spoken of death for the defendants...
...auction was on. Cooper, who had staged a salary rebellion with Brother Mort before joining the Navy last spring, got No. 1 priority on the sales list by blabbing that he would never again put on a Cardinal uniform. The Cooper news was hardly out before the Pittsburgh Pirates admitted that, they had put up some $30.000 for the Cards' pepperpot, switch-hitting Second Baseman Jimmy Brown. Other anxious buyers fretted on the Cardinal doorstep...
...corral, at a fancy price, some of the players who had hustled for him in St. Louis. It was equally likely that he would go on working wonders like his 1945 Card trick with Pitcher Charlie Barrett. Barrett, a no-count Brave tossed into the $50,000 deal for Mort Cooper, won 21 games for St. Louis under Southworth's persuasive handling...
...heavy over all the western clubs, but the blackest cloud was over the once-mighty Cardinals (who had only managed to break even in 26 games). First Marty Marion and Al Schoendienst went on the injured list, then Pitcher Max Lanier went home for probable induction. At this point Mort Cooper, the Cards' No. 1 pitcher, walked out. He still wanted his paycheck boosted to $15,000 or else (TIME, April...