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Show badly, and since Cleveland has needed a second baseman it may be that both teams are strengthened by the trade, and if it makes cither one of them a contender in 1959, it will be a good thing for baseball. the pennant, and beat out the New York Yankees. As every one ktiows, Detroit failed to get off the ground again this year, and even Billy Martin's help did not put the Tigers into solid contention. Cleveland, Cleve-land, rebuilding with former Yankee star Joe Gordon as manager, seeks to challenge the Yankees, just as Chicago, Boston and Detroit hope to. It would be a good thing if one or more of these teams actually did build itself innto a contender, since the New York Yankees walked off so easily in 1958 that little interest in-terest in the American League pennant was attracted to some of the games in the junior Major League toward the end of the season. It appears ap-pears that the Indians paid a high price for Martin. They gave up their two ace relief pitchers, Ray Narleski and Don Mossi. Since the Tigers have needed relief pitching I Baseball Talk Eyes were opened recently in the baseball world, when ihc Detroit Tigers traded their star shortstop, Billy Martin, to the Cleveland Indians. In-dians. It was interesting because be-cause the Tigers had obtained obtain-ed Billy Martin last year in an effort lo put them in contention con-tention for the American League flag. . In fact, Martin was quoted at the beginning of the season sea-son this year as saying the Tigers had a chance to win |