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...Cleveland, 30-year-old Vic Wertz, the Indians' veteran first baseman and outfielder, now in his ninth major-league season, was stricken with a mild attack of polio. Wertz, whose long-ball hitting (14 homers, 55 runs batted in) has helped keep the Indians high up in the American League pennant race, was a standout batter of the last year's World Series (a .500 average, including one homer, one triple and two doubles). At week's end Wertz's doctors reported "no signs" of paralysis, but he will probably be out for the rest...
...quick switch to first, played like a practiced veteran, and opened a spot in the lineup for a flashy, hard-hitting rookie named Rudy Regalado. The Indians started after the lead. Now that Regalado is slumping at bat, Manager Al Lopez has another capable first baseman, ex-Oriole Vic Wertz, so he can safely bench Regalado and send Rosen back to third...
Home Runs: Wertz, St. Louis...
Fireballer Virgil Trucks, 33-year-old right hander for the Detroit Tigers, hurried the season's first no-hit, no-run game in the major leagues yesterday, beating the Washington Senators, 1 to 0, Vic Wertz won the game with a homer in the ninth...
Detroit is still in the slump which struck it last September. George Kell and Vic Wertz are the best third baseman and right fielder in the game, but only Hal Newhouser is pitching adequately. Hoot Evers, easily the best left fielder in the league last year, is hitting .133 and sitting on the bench. Johnny Lipon's fielding at short has fallen apart after a great year. Only catcher Myron Ginsberg has shown improvement...