Show r l R CE THIS HIS seems to be asgood good a spot various as any other to give you the tho champions of 1946 Of course there may be a slight element ele ele- ment of chance involved in these various nominations but if you o combine the past performance operations operations op op- op- op and the future chart you can cant can't t go far wrong Also we reserve the we right to make a few changes 1 and later on when Then some of the mists fogs have lifted lilted and there is more light ahead These Thes selections belong to the I snows snout s of winter not the flowers of April and May nor northe northe northe the red and gold of tints oft of next au au- t 3 Here is our prediction for big 4 league baseball American league c i e Joe McCarthys McCarthy's Yankees with the thet t Red Sox and Tigers as leading chal chal- lengers ers National league league- rim rh C T i n j h Ul Ul eU nals pals with Cubs Dodgers anc an and nd Gia Giants s I close up At the moment Joe McCarthy seems to b be e more worried about the Red Ked Sox with Ted Williams Bobby Doerr and Tex Hughson back than I the Tigers with Wakefield and I Greenberg hitting plus the pitching of Trout Trucks and Benton Demon i Outside of the Cardinals the I scramble to finish in the first four teams will be terrific depending largely on the clubs that get the pick of Sam Breadon's or ma maybe be worth of pitchers infielders infielders in- in fielders and outfielders I dont don't mean collectively but individual individual- ly Iy Sam Breadon has already sold over worth of talent and he has something like in the wa way of talent left Owner Sam Breadon Bread- Bread on will have a big influence on the next neat National league race Joe McCarthy one of the top managers of all time is too conservative conservative conservative con con- to make any predictions Why I haven't even seen such men menas menas menas as Dickey Gordon DiMaggio Rizzuto Rizzuto Rizzuto Riz- Riz Johnson and others in several years How could I know what they have All I know is what they were not not what they are Remember that old song of George Cohan's It isn't what you used to be its it's its it's what you are today Anyway our first prediction stands Yankees and Cardinals which is is no wild dash into the un un- known It is no long shot selection |