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...Bill Veeck knows that free beer is no substitute for good baseball. He plans to shake up the club, "from manager to batboy," talks of building up his pitching staff (he has only one first-string pitcher, Ned Garver) by dusting off famed old (fiftyish) Relief Pitcher Satchel Paige ("Satch plays better now that he's had all his teeth pulled") and buying a Japanese pitcher now playing in Honolulu ("If a ballplayer can help this club I'll take him if he's blue with pink spots"). He will sift the minor leagues for power hitters...
Rarely have two teams looked worse than Philadelphia and St. Louis. Put together, they would still be at the bottom. Ferris Fain, the Athletics' first baseman, is leading the league in batting, and Ned Garver has won seven of the Browns' 13 victories. Eddie Joost and Gus Zernial of the A's and Joe Coleman of the Browns are hitting well. The rest are best forgotten. Bankruptey is more probable than sixth place for either of these two--already over, 15 games behind...
Attackman Ned Yost bumped the ball away from a New Hampshire defenseman and shoveled it to Bill Plissner. Plissner cut down the sideline, them fed a sharp lead to Yost, who put a swift drive into...
...have just been assured over the long distance phone by Ned Williams, DOWNBEAT's Editor, that he would try to stop press and correct this error. However, against the chance that copies containing the error may reach the stands, I would appreciate a word in the CRIMSON clearing me of having made any such phony claim as to my Harvard scholastic record. Johnny Green...
Senior exams have cut into the Crimson's practice sessions this week, key defense reserve Ned Maroni has a Med School exam, and a series of minor injuries have cropped up to plague Coach Bruce Munro...