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Show w t clubhouse they ''flout the fastest 'iment got down to Sob Feller. Iran ,Jn-a fellow named td against Jhnson'" a 7UA my vote goes hen he jest. I er'sfast 1 don't Jjut I i ee , aw s." Je "and I :rove at ie top. i with 7 He is Grantland !or me. Rjce -jo fast." ktith Johnson. One si BiS Barney pitched Bind bad more strike-. strike-. pitcher in baseball tf i recall the exact I Johnson had no chance ;itb , weak-hitting club, liter in those days knew coming, but they stiU He Big Train. Johnson, with that rec-e rec-e call." Dickey said. A Mystery ier angle few fans fig-asked fig-asked one of the Tiger accounted for Detroit's !rom a sixth-place pick ; contender, and then the iow-up prior to the final be said. "In the spring id of Dick Bartcll's legs e Gehringer's legs and e happened to get a I which ran into June. ground to work on until July. This gave both "9 veterans a chance 1 to save their legs. 1 J Then the sun baked out all diamonds J and what a differ J ence this makes to ; Jj older legs." "This is true I enough," Bartell I told me. "I was a 1 kid again as long as 'JJ I had soft ground (j under my feet. But these hard, baked Is are rough on your legs, in to feel the difference ys-sore ligaments, sore i! one of the main fac-(Iroit's fac-(Iroit's early summer Hi his spirit and his play r (actors in the Tiger the same goes for Geh-itands Geh-itands out as one of the i basemen of all time, two begin to skid the began to look porous, his one out," one of the i:i "We all know the ij, powerful hands in mds like Wagner's and it one of the best infield-b infield-b in a long time has the iir of hands in either 'hom?" we asked, i. the Cleveland short-wercd. short-wercd. "Boudrcau has mall hands. They are MS. But I don't know shortstop anywhere to- been one of the main Cleveland's success. Is either hand on a ball h him." d Argument W something," one of I veterans said. "Old-ways "Old-ways talking about the tors who once made the toy talk about a more me- I'd like to see e old-timers handle the at you today infield or ' May is twice as fast. -H comes at you like "any times. You can't ( split second. The I k the outfield where me whistling by. It "er starting speed to . faster ball, no mat-uon mat-uon you play. Those M lucky when it came ach slower ball, one II ""ore time to cover ay is far harder on you have to be alert - man is at bat. You fte time in any close old-time game may scientific, but the " lai-gely a matter of wer." Hitters )use chitchat drifted cmparative value of totting. ur choice," I asked erans, "who would you obJ. Wagner and Foxx Alexander, Feller and "his peak?" ''wait on that one," e the four pitchers. ;w pitchers and I'll 'oar big hitters you ny baseball league, |