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...last summer the Detroit Tigers pussyfooted along as tame as tabby cats, getting spotty pitching and mediocre hitting. When they finished in the second division, it was a cinch that fireplug-shaped Manager Steve O'Neill would be looking for another job. He is. Last week the Tigers' millionaire owner, Walter O. Briggs Sr., surprised nearly everybody by signing up quiet, efficient Red Rolfe, 40, the old Yankees' onetime third-baseman. Rolfe, who is head of the Tigers' farm system, has never managed a ball club before...
...season will probably be Milt Heath, whose quick, canny game makes up for his lack of height and reach. Right behind him will be Hugh Foster, brother of Adam Foster, who had been top man on Crimson squads for the past few years. Captain Jim McKittrick and temporarily-disabled Steve Mead are the other returnees...
Elsewhere, among the 20 men who survived the first cut last week, John Richards and Dick Covey appear capable of breaking into the lineup at guard, and Bob Bramhall, who played alongside Wyndol Gray on the 1945 Crimson NCAA. Tourney quintet, looks good at forward. Cliff Crosby and Steve Davis may also help out. But Coach Barclay emphasized the fact that no starting position is sewed up as yet. Every man on the squad has a chance to be among the five that lead off against Brown on December...
Silent Bats. It went on like that for four days: good pitching and terrible hitting. Cleveland's brilliant southpaw Rookie Gene Bearden, shutting out the Braves (2-0), only twice let the count go to three balls on any Boston batter. Knuckle-bailer Steve Gromek, who out-pitched Sain in the fourth game (2-1), gave only one base on balls. The 1948 World Series was in danger of being remembered only for precision pitching. Grantland Rice called it the Series of silent bats. Disgusted fans and sportwriters complained that it was the dullest World Series in memory. What...
...Formula. The committee's other case centered on Yugoslav-born Steve Nelson, a Communist Party stalwart, onetime chairman of its San Francisco chapter. The committee, with rare restraint, did not identify Nelson's contact, an atomic researcher at the University...