Word: sluggers
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...Hollywood and Vine remarked: "Nobody's them Angels." The Angels are the displaced persons in the westward movement. Last year's Pacific Coast League champs, they had a couple of crowd-drawers--a line-up averaging .304, a pitching staff with four 15-game winners, and a roly-poly slugger named Bilko who swatted 56 homeruns...
...many games; too many fans were staying away from the ballpark; even the sportswriters were unhappy. In the tradition of big-league baseball there was nothing for the Cleveland Indians to do but fire their field manager, Kerby Farrell. But General Manager Hank Greenberg, the Hall of Fame slugger, had already done that. It was his biggest mistake. He had left no one to fire but himself. Last week the Indians did just that...
...really believe they can win-and once more the difference is Birdie. Now, like their manager, the Redlegs are convinced that there is nothing worse in life than losing. So they have bounced back from a staggering last-place start. They have made do without the services of Slugger Ted Kluszewski, whose injured back has turned him into a defensive drawback around first base and a spottv performer at the plate. Slowly and steadily they have clawed their way out ox recurrent slumps, and scrambled back toward the lead where they are sure they belong...
...Commission decided to allow Lightweight Champion Joe Brown and Challenger Orlando Zulueta to use 6-oz. instead of 8-oz. gloves for their title tight in Denver, Zulueta's manager, Hymie ("The Mink") Wallman, screamed like a mink. Light gloves, insisted Hymie, were made to order for a slugger like Brown. They seemed to be. Brown waded into Zulueta's flicking jab for 13 rounds, then dropped him for a count of nine. The challenger went down again in the 15th, and Slugger Joe Brown held on to his title with a T.K.O...
...brother, foggily shifting the locale of the brawl among various dingy recesses of Manhattan's brassy Copacabana nightclub, asserted that Bauer, known to his pals as "The Bruiser," did it. As far as Bauer would allow, it must have been two other guys. The victim, unsure about his slugger's identity, later blubbered through his battered lips: "You know how it is! Everybody was drinking. The Yanks were feeling no pain. I love the Yankees! I even love Bauer...