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...enough, and no one knows it better than scrappy Paul Richards. His managerial bag of tricks includes some eye-poppers. Recently, against the Boston Red Sox, Richards relieved Pitcher Harry Dorish, plunked him on third base, and brought in Lefthander Bill Pierce to pitch to lefthanded slugger Ted Williams. Williams popped up, Pierce left the game, Dorish went back in to pitch, and the White Sox finally won in eleven innings. Richards explains the switch, which is no novelty in sandlot ball but a rarity in the big leagues, with a characteristic comment: "I play the percentage if it will...
...Force," "Operation Pacific," or "American Guerrilla in the Philippines" stripe. It is a film which must be taken seriously, if only for the fact that roughly half the cast gets killed off, and nobody stands off a Banzai charge of Japs with two grenades, a penknife, and a Louisville slugger. "Halls of Montezuma" attempts to show that war is hell and pretty well succeeds...
...success than he has had so far. His number six position on the team reveals the excellent strength and depth of the current squad. Sam Hoar, another junior, can hit as hard as anyone on the team. His game lacks polish, but he is gradually developing from a wild slugger into a steadier, more accurate competitor...
General Manager Hank Greenberg, a good country slugger in his day but not yet a good public-relations man, tried to pour soothing oil on the fans' hurt, but nearly drowned himself in it. After acknowledging that Boudreau was "probably the most popular player in Cleveland history," Greenberg bubbled on that, in sacking him, the new management was just trying to "do what was right for the fans." Boudreau fans considered that Greenberg had done them dirt...
...that groundkeepers at the Polo Grounds had to shovel sawdust around the mound to give Maglie some solid footing. He struggled with a wet baseball for six innings trying to keep his sweeping curve under control. He succeeded well enough: not a member of the Pittsburgh Pirates, including Slugger Ralph Kiner, had managed to cross the plate. Maglie had little more than an inning to go to break the record set by Hubbell...