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...games for the tail-end Phillies' last year; 2) onetime Cardinal Mickey Owen, a Grade A catcher; 3) onetime Pirate Paul Waner, seasoned outfielder; 3) Second Baseman Alex Kampouris, who led the International League in home runs last year. Besides, they have mighty Joe Medwick, the slugger whom Boss Larry MacPhail bought for $132,500 last summer, only to have him beaned and made ball-shy for the rest of the season. This spring, comforted by a bean-proof plastic headguard which all Dodgers are compelled to wear inside their caps, Muscle Man Medwick seems to be back...
...half a million dollars for players. They gave the American Association's Louisville Colonels $75,000 for Infielder Peewee Reese. They gave the St. Louis Cardinals $200,000 for Outfielder Ducky Medwick. Last week, while Rookie Reese was on the side lines with a broken heel bone and Slugger Medwick was hitting like a bush leaguer, Brooklyn fans crammed Ebbets Field to salute the player they consider the most valuable Dodger of the year: Pitcher Freddy Fitzsimmons, a Giant castoff picked up for a song three years...
...sodas when he was a boy). He can and does bed & board 72 guests at a time, sometimes entertains up to 400 guests a week. Often as not they include overalled members of the six-team Onaway softball league which Maxon finances. He is the league's leading slugger...
...Yankees were one run behind, the bases were loaded, two men were out. Facing the Yankee rookie was wily old Pete Alexander, just called from the bullpen. With 38,000 pairs of eyes focused on him Rookie Lazzeri, trying desperately to live up to his reputation as a slugger, went down swinging...
...stands is Duke's Leftfielder Eric Tipton, more famed as the punting halfback who almost singlehanded defeated Pitt's famed football team last fall. In three years of varsity baseball, Titan Tipton has batted .446, .407, .410. Tipton, however, is not Duke's only slugger. This year's team has six .400 batters. So far this season they have won 21 of their 22 games, have averaged n.i runs and 13.2 hits a game-a record even more extraordinary than Duke's undefeated, untied, unscored-on football team...