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Show I THE IU LI.ET1N, BINGHAM CANYON, IT AH MANAGER Eddie Dyer of the has about all the pitchers two teams could use. Your guess would be that Eddie has noth-ing to worry about. But the first section of any manager's job is to worry about something. Two of Manager Dyer's worries now are Johnny Grodzicki and George Munger. Johnny Grodzicki, from Nanticoke, Pa., is an who Is still! working on a shrnp-ne- l wound in his right leg. George Munger, palling the oftl-- 1 cer's school test in thl Pacific area.; has mnde such a Kddte Dyer fine reCord the army doesn't want to let him go. The main point of this yarn is that Dyer believes both men could have been two of the best pitchen tn baseball. "When I had Grodzicki at Colum- - bus in 1941," Dyer says, "I thought he was the best minor league pitch-er I ever law. 185 pounds, he had what you might call everything. That season Johnny won 19 games and lost 5 when his rec-ord might just as well have been 22 wins and 2 defeats. In addition to a fine arm he had both head and heart, but an uncertain right leg due to a shrapnel wound which has been healing slowly. But he is still undiscouraged. In ahape Johnny might easily have been a 25 or 28-- l game winner. "George Munger. In my book. Is one of the best pitchers In Cardinal history. In hii last season with the Cardinals in 1944, Munger won 11 games and lost 3. But he was just beginning to find himself. He is now on duty in the Far East and I don't know when we'll get him back. Mun-ger Is another who might have led the league." These two are not the only cases. The game through 1946 will give you many others from other clubs. Vets Will Dominate The pennant races of 1946 will feature largely returning players from the service forces. Among those I might mention are Bob Fel-le- r, Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, Tex Hughson, Joe Gordon, Bobby Doerr, Bill Dickey, Phil Rizzuto, Johnny Mize, Hank Greenberg, Dick Wakefield, Spud Chandler, Charlie Keller, Johnny Beazley, Howie Pol-le- t, Peewee Reese, Pet" Reiser, Country Slaughter, Terry Moore, Dave Ferriss, Dom DiMaggio, and many, many more. It is from this list that you will find the pennant winners, the leading hitters and the lead-ing pitchers. They will dominate the double show. There will be others who were not in service who will play good ball. Here is an example. In 1945, Snuffy Stirnweiss led the American league hitters with a season's aver- - age of .309. Yet it is the opinion of many smart baseball men that it will take a mark of .360 or .370 to lead the punching parade this season in the junior circuit. I put this query up to six American league veterans, including Bill Dickey and George Selkirk, who know their way around. There were four or five others from American league clubs. It was also their opinion that the 1945 winning mark of .309 wouldn't finish in the first 12. Pitching Wont Matter "What about the better pitching that is coming In?" I asked. "I mean such men as Feller, Hugh-son- , etc." "This will make little difference," one veteran ansAvered. "Hitters like Ted Williams, Wakefield, Green-berg, DiMaggio, Keller and many others will still keep on hitting the ball. Good pitching can wreck the ordinary hitter. But it never wrecks the true hitter who knows how to swing a bat and get his hits. "The National league with Phil Cavarretta, Tommy Holmes and others was far ahead of the Ameri-can league last season. That won't happen again. Watch and see. The American league will take back its old spot as the harder-hittin- g league, and it will have to face pitching that is just as good." S. American Baseball No one can shake Larry Mac-- ; Phail, the Dodgers' owner, loose from the idea that baseball is head-ed for a big boom in Latin Amer-- : lea and that what we often call "The National Game" will soon be the national game of Mexico, Panama, Venezuela, Colombia, Cuba and oth-- ! er tropical spots. "The answer is simple enough, ' 'MacPhail says with emphatic ges-- 1 tures. "The kids of these countries are baseball crazy. It is the only game most of them want to play. It is the only game most of them care to talk about. Their knowledge of baseball today is amazing. I'm not guessing about this, for I've been in the middle of at least part of it. 'To my mind this will be the best possible build-u- p for any good ' neighbor policy for Latin American friendship. 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