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That should have satisfied Brooklyn fans. The series had been a hair-raising standoff. The Dodgers were still one and a half games in front. For the September homestretch, they have an easier schedule than the Cardinals. They proved that they can match St. Louis slugger for slugger, fielder for fielder. They have the best pair of pitchers in the league in Kirby Higbe and Whit Wyatt, who have already won 36 games...
...National Doubles champion (with Jack Kramer) from Glendale, Calif. Schroeder, who a few years ago was good for a kid, is now much better than that. He plays a hard-driving game that will take him further than he has come. In his match with Riggs he was a slugger against a boxer. Schroeder seemed to be still tired from his match the day before with Wayne Sabin, the man who beat Parker...
...fifth inning; the Boston Red Sox were playing the New York Yankees. Bronx thermometers registered 94° in the shade. But the crowd was oblivious of the sweltering heat. They sat on the edges of their sticky seats, gripping their sticky score cards. Strapping Joe Di Maggio, Yankee slugger nonpareil, was at bat, and something more than a ball game was at stake...
...season prognostications, experts figured the Cardinals would finish third, as they did last year. The team relied on a mighty slugger named Slaughter and two other outfielders who hit over .300. They had First Baseman Johnny Mize, No. 1 home-run hitter of 1940. But their pitching was questionable, their fielding unreliable. To replace Outfielder Joe Medwick, Pitcher Curt Davis and Catcher Mickey Owen, three Old Reliables recently sold to the rival Brooklyn Dodgers, Manager Southworth had brought up a batch of green rookies from the Cardinals' far-flung farms...
...last week it looked as if this year's crop was a bumper. Slugger Slaughter had led the early-season attack, with a batting average of .400, but the rookies had followed through like veterans. At second base, little Frank ("Creepy") Crespi displayed some fancy fielding; at bat, big Walker Cooper, filling in as first-string catcher, proved a valuable newcomer to Slaughter...