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Show Spring Ahead EDDIE ROBINSON, the big Brst baseman acquired by the Yankees Yank-ees In the thirteen-player deal with the Athletics, has been a baseball base-ball nomad. In nine seasons, Eddie played with Cleveland, Washington, Chicago and Philadelphia . . . One sports writer, commenting upon the big deal, remarked that American Amer-ican League teams were certainly swinging mighty blows in their attempt at-tempt ,to break up the Yankee monopoly on championships and league power only trouble being they were swinging with a "feather duster." . . . The Brooklyn Dodgers report to their spring training camp at Vero Beach, Florida on Feb. 23, open np an exhibition schedule on March 6 at Miami. The "Bums" will play exhibition games at Vero Beach, Orlando, Fort Pierce, West Palm Beach, St. Petersburg, Tampa Tam-pa and Clearwater . . . Bob Elliott, 37-year-old third baseman recently unconditionally released by the White Sox had trouble with strained leg muscles. He came to the Sox from the Browns last June, appeared ap-peared in sixty-seven games, batting bat-ting .261. He hit .255 for the season . Five Southeastern Conference teams have appeared in the Cotton Bowl Tennessee (1951, 53) and Alabama (1942, 54) have played twice, Georgia Tech (43), LSD (47) and Kentucky (52) have appeared one time. . |