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Show - MAY RETURN FROM GRAVES FOR SHARE IN WORLD SERIES ' --.- :'. : S': , V, W' - v Back from baseball graves to get .heir share in this year's world series. Is that what Babe Adams of the Pirates and Frank Baker of the Yankees are up to? Of course, neither the Pirates nor the Yankees have clinched pennauts, but both clubs are "sitting pretty." Babe Adams pitched in one world series In 1909 when the Tigers and the Pirates clashed. Adams won two games and Pittsburgh was declared the world's champion club. Baker Home Run King. Baker has starred in more than one. He was the home-run king when the Athletics were copping annually. He was known as a money player doing his best work in the big series. But Baker and Adams were both counted out. And In sports it Is common com-mon to say that a man can't come back. Daily accounts of games played in the two big leagues include favorable favor-able mention of the two veterans. Adams Is Stalwart. Adams is one of the stalwarts of the Pirates as he was in 1909. And Baker Is batting in the runs the Yankees need so badly in their fight with Cleveland. Babe Adams is thirty-eight years old and began pitching in 1904 with Parsons, Kan. Frank Baker Is thirty-five years old and had been out of baseball over a year when the Yankees took him back this spring. |