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Despite the coddling of Big Joe's batting streak, the Yankees managed to win their share of ball games. On May 15, when Joe's bat got hot, the Yankees were in fourth place in the American League pennant race, six and a half games behind the league-leading Cleveland Indians. Last week, after Di Maggio's historic homer helped his team win their 20th game in 24, the Yankees were in first place, three games in front of Cleveland. And only two days away was July 4, the traditional day when the league-leader foreshadows...
Burton was a cross between Byron and Major Hoople-a proud, fierce, foolish, gifted man with one streak of true genius -a genius for failure. Isabel, like her husband, was a rebel, but of a far more conventional sort. Her rebelliousness began like the romantic dreams of any English Backfisch; it was her great distinction that she stuck by them. And her dreams, after a fashion, stuck...
...lone tally in her half of the second on two clean singles and two passes, all coming after two men were out. The blurred background of reunion classes milling around behind the plate trying to get to shelter before rain came must have upset Waldstein. He had a temporary streak of wildness which almost meant the ball game...
...front, two games ahead of the Brooklyn Dodgers and 13 ahead of the World Champion Cincinnati Reds, the Cardinals had set the league's high winning streak, eleven games in a row. They led the league in batting (.290), fielding (.981). They looked so slick that Betting Commissioner Jack Doyle changed his pre-season odds, made the Cards favorites to win the National League pennant this year...
...pitchers who really deserved the medals. During an early-season ten-game winning streak, five rookie pitchers had accounted for five victories. Most outstanding was Sam Nahem (rhymes with mayhem), who pitched a three-hitter in his first big-league game, chalked up three more victories in three more starts...