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1960-Apr-23 - CLE/KCA - Cleveland Indians vs Kansas City Athletics - Classic Baseball Radio Broadcast · Retro Sports Radio: Classic Games from History

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  On April 23, 1960, the Cleveland Indians faced
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  the Kansas City Athletics in an afternoon game
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  at Municipal Stadium in Kansas City. The Indians
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  were managed by Joe Gordon, who was in his third
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  and final season with the team. Although the
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  Indians had been a consistent 90 -win team and
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  had reached the World Series in 1954, they had
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  declined to nothing more than an average team
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  by 1960. Kansas City was led by first -year manager
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  Bob Elliott, who had taken over from Harry Kraft
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  after his three -year tenure with the A's. The
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  game featured two relatively unknown starting
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  pitchers, Barry Lappman for the Indians and Dick
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  Hall for the Athletics. This audio recording
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  is from the radio broadcast featuring announcers
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  Jack Buck and Carl Erskine. Pen, pen, bendable,
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  If your Papermate doesn't perform, we'll replace
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  it. It's adjustable This is Jack Buck with Carl
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  Erskine at Municipal Stadium in Kansas City,
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  Missouri, welcoming you to another big league
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  league baseball every Saturday and such classics
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  of the week every Friday night. This is our way
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  of showing you how much we appreciate your support.
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  Here we are in Kansas City, and the scene at
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  home plate finds Joe Gordon, the manager of the
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  Indians, with a big grin on his face, even though
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  the Indians have yet to win a ball game this
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  year. Bob Elliott, the manager of the Kansas
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  City A's in his first year in that capacity,
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  talking things over with the four umpires. Al
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  Smith will be at the plate just walking out of
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  your picture. Joe Paparella is at first base.
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  Second base umpire is Ed Runge, and Johnny Rice
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  is the third base umpire. It's a cool, windy,
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  rather overcast day here as these two American
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  League ball clubs battle. And two right -handers
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  will be going at it. To tell you a little bit
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  about them and who they are, here's Carl Erskine.
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  Hi, thank you, Jack. Two right -handers are now
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  warming up. Barry Lattmann, who came over from
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  the White Sox just this year. And he's down there
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  hoping to get off to a good start today because
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  he had an eight and five year last year in a
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  little over a hundred innings. And I know he's
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  out there today wanting to get started and get
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  this number one win under his belt. Dick Hall
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  has already completed his pregame activities,
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  Carl, and we've seen him before quite often.
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  Dick Hall, you'll recall, was an outfielder,
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  Jack, and they converted him to a pitcher, and
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  he came up with some arm trouble with the pitcher
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  bird and was sent out. The other boys got on
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  the field, Jack, and tried to get underway. Right,
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  and Dick Hall will be going to the mound, carrying
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  with him a rather fantastic record from last
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  year at Salt Lake City. The athletics wearing
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  the white home uniforms. The wind blowing out
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  towards left, as we told you, and we expect quite
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  a few to be jumping out of this ballpark. Unless,
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  of course, the pitchers have anything to say
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  about it. We'll set the lineup for you. First
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  in left field, there's Bob Sir. Alongside Bob
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  in center field is Bill Tunnel. The fellow can
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  really cover ground and get an idea of the distance
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  at the same time, 421. Hank Bauer, one of the
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  great names in baseball, is playing right field.
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  The third baseman is a rookie, Bob Johnson. And
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  another youngster is at the shortstop position.
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  That's Ken Hamlin. He had quite a day yesterday
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  with that club. Jerry Lumpy, a former Yankee
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  at second base. And yet another former Yankee,
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  Norm Siebern, at a strange position playing first
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  base this afternoon. Back of the plate is a former
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  national leaguer, Harry Cheney, who is with the
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  Cubs. Number one catcher now for the A's. And
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  on the mound, this big fella, 6 '6", Nick Hall.
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  Last year his record was quite outstanding 18
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  and 5. There is Jojo White coaching at third
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  base for the Cleveland Indians and Red Cress
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  is the first base coach talking things over with
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  the umpire saying what do you have to do to win
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  a game? The athletics have won one and lost two.
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  They lost two games to Chicago. Both games they
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  felt they could have won. They had some bad breaks
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  they say. Meanwhile Cleveland is on three having
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  lost the third game yesterday here to the Kansas
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  City A's and the A's home opener four to one.
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  Here's Johnny Temple. Dick Hall on the mound.
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  The first pitch of the ball game is a ball. Temple's
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  gotten off to a rather slow start. A scrappy
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  little fellow who last year played second base
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  for Cincinnati was involved in a trade with Cal
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  McGlish. One ball to count. And a strike now.
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  One and one. The outfield just about straight
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  away for Temple. He hits the ball to all fields.
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  He has only one out of 14. And there's nothing
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  that a ballplayer likes any better than to get
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  off to a good start and dislikes any more than
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  to get off to a slow one. One and one to count.
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  Low inside now. Two and one. You might seldom
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  see a pitcher this size, Carl Erskine. He's a
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  big tall boy out there. I'm sure he looks right
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  down that hitter's throat up there. Strangely
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  enough, as tall as he is, he's a low ball pitcher.
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  If he keeps that ball low, you'll see a lot of
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  ground balls today. He looks a little awkward
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  but has a good fastball going for him. There's
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  a shot in the right center. That looks like trouble
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  and an extra base hit and this couple can run
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  those bases. And he's going to try for two. He's
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  in there. That's the way the ball game starts
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  with a shot in the right center. A two base hit
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  for Johnny Temple. Temple jammed into that bag
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  quite hard down there as you can see. Number
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  two is the shortstop. The second baseman is lumpy.
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  Walter Bond the rookie right fielder made the
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  play and made it rather close. Phil Cleveland
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  has a good opportunity to get off and running
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  here. The batting order finds Temple and Al Pearsall.
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  Walter Bond hitting third. Tito Francona batting
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  the number four spot. Russ Nixon the catcher.
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  Big power at first. Woody held it short. Bubba
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  Phillips at third. And Latman. Bauer on right
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  field a while ago. With whom I referred. A ball
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  the first off. First off getting an opportunity
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  to play because Harvey Keane. Just acquired from
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  Detroit is out of the lineup and will be for
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  a couple of more days with a bad leg. Temple
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  on a second base and there's nobody out. Temple
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  is a very fine base runner. Aggressive ball player.
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  He's able to get a good size lead off the second
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  base. Now the time goes to one and one. All of
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  the other teams are saying action today and we're
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  going to keep you up -to -date on the progress
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  of those games. Seeburn, Lumpy... Hamlin on the
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  shortstop is just out of your picture. One ball,
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  one strike. Two balls and a strike. His control
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  record was fantastic last year. I was just checking
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  on him before the game today and he... He only
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  walked 28 men in the entire season last year,
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  in which he won 18 and lost five. And this is
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  a contrast to what he was the year before at
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  Pittsburgh when he had arm trouble. Last year
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  at Salt Lake City, it's a two ball, one strike
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  count to Pearsaw. There's a base hit and a right.
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  Temple's going to hold up at a third, I believe,
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  as Bauer comes up with it. First and third and
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  nobody out. What a throw Bauer made right through
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  the play, but nobody out and Temple wasn't taking
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  any... and two consecutive hits on the ball.
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  Now here's Walter Bond, a rookie who's broken
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  in in great fashion for the Indians. Another
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  big fella, about 6 '5". First and third, Kansas
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  City infield moves in, either for a play at the
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  plate or for the double play. Outfield way around
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  to the right, deep for Walter Bond. You know
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  you can either as a pitcher be afraid of a big
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  fellow or you can take the positive approach
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  Jack and say boy what a strike zone this guy
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  has. Usually they try to jam a fellow this size.
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  Left handed hitter to a right handed pitcher
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  left hand hitter often steps into the ball and
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  in doing so it's advantage to the pitcher to
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  pitch him tight. This temple on third base. The
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  runner on first first all very fast nobody out
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  there. Strikeout right now. Mary Cheney yelled
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  something out to his pitcher. First and third.
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  Nobody out. The ball game just started. We had
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  a double and a single. One ball one strike to
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  count. A real good fastball and a good cut. Getting
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  his best shot that time. I have a feeling this
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  fellow swings a little like Sam Jones we were
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  talking about last week. He has almost as fast
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  a backswing as he does across the plate. I saw
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  Chidi move out of there on that foul tip. Walter
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  Bond in the hole. There's Persol being held close
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  which gives the left -handed batter a lot of
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  room through the right side of the infield. Wow,
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  a lot of play. This is what a ball club really
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  enjoys when they have a fellow like Walter Bond
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  come into camp. Just for a look see and find
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  him to be so good that you can't cut him off
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  the ball clock. They're playing in right field
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  and batting him in the number three spot. Tito
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  Francona will be next. Try to get the strike
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  on the inside corner and ran the count to two
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  and two now. Kansas City infield of Johnson,
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  Hamlin, Lumpy and Seaborn. Looking for that double
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  play ball. Good view as the umpire season. There
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  is a base hit and a run is in and let's see if
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  Pearsall tries for third. He stops as Bauer fires
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  it back in. Three straight hits off of Dick Hall
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  and Walter Bond drives in the first run of the
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  game. One to nothing Cleveland. Temple across
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  the plate. Pearsall. One of the fastest was compelled
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  to stop at second base on the strength of the
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  good throwing arm of Hank Bauer and now here's
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  Tito Francona the left fielder. Francona has
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  four out of 14 in this young season. And already
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  they're throwing in the Kansas City bullpen which
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  is. Way beyond the center field fence. First
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  and second. Nobody out a run in. The Indians
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  lead the A's one to nothing. Outfield deep to
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  the right for Francona. Out of play into the
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  seats. Jack we're just. mentioning earlier that
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  Bob Hall was a low ball pitcher when he was at
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  his best. And these three base hits in this first
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  inning have all come on pitches above the hitter's
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  belt. I'm sure that this is one of the reasons
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  that these fellows have hung out three solid
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  line drives during the first inning. They all
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  have been well hit. Frank Conner had 20 home
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  runs last year. That's a good strike. That's
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  two of them. Tito has something to say to Al
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  Smith. He played umpire. Pierce on his second
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  base. Walter Bond on at first. Nobody out on
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  a run in. The nothing to pitch. It's a ball.
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  One and two now. He's hoping for that double
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  play to change the inning. Get the momentum going
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  in the other direction. You see Sebring playing
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  behind the runner at first. One ball two strikes
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  and going to hit it on the screen. Getting some
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  good cuts at this guy This fell is around the
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  plate all the time and the hitter walks in there,
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  especially after two or three base hits Momentum
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  starts rolling for a ball club and each guy walks
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  up there swings a little harder than the last
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  There's a good view of the power -hitting Frank
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  Conner with 20 home runs and 79 RBI is last year
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  for the Indians looking for his first homer this
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  year one ball two strikes a little off the pitch
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  breaking ball runs account to tune to This is
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  the second stop in our big league baseball parade.
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  Last week we were fortunate enough to be able
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  to show you Sam Jones one hitter and I wonder
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  what's going to happen today. The Indians have
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  gotten off to the good start. Having scored one
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  already. Two men on. Nobody out. There's ball
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  three. Three and two with nobody out and Dick
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  Hall is getting in a peck of trouble. Harry Chidi
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  goes to the mound. A worried man right at this
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  point. We'll keep an eye on the runners for him.
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  Pierce Hall on his second and Bond on his first
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  and see if they're breaking with this 3 -2 pitch.
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  There's nobody out. They're not going. Base is
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  loaded. Nobody out. Ron Conner gets to first
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  base the easy way. He's on first. Walter Bond
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  is on his second. Piersol is on a third and Bob
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  Elliott. Here's Bob at second base. Piersol talking
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  to JoJo White and going to the mound to talk
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  to his pitcher is the Kansas City manager Bob
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  Elliott. I was anxious to get a chance to see
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  Bob again as I did before the game today. Bob
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  is back in the big leagues after some time away
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  managed out at the Coastal League last year and
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  I'm sure he's got a few things on his mind out
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  there on the hill right now. Bob Trowbridge is
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  still throwing out the bullpen. I'm sure that
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  Elliot is now motioning for Trowbridge. So here
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  in the first inning, Bob Hall had a little shaky
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  start. He didn't retire a man. He gave us three
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  hits. A walk. One run. I know he's saying to
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  himself, Jack, that his big legs are just like
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  I left them. They're rough to cope with. That's
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  right, Colin. And gee, it hurts. There's a fellow
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  who labored hard in the minor leagues trying
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  to get another shot. Piled a fine record. High
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  classification ball, and then worked hard this
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  spring. Looking for his first start of the season,
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  and he gets it. He gets nobody out here in the
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  first inning. The Indians having score to run.
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  On a double, two singles and a walk. Have the
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  bases loaded, and here comes a Kansas City pitcher,
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  and that's right in style. Man, well, yeah, I
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  never talk about the good old days when I played
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  ball, but I'll say this. It was a long walk from
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  the bullpen when I used to come in. And early
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  in my career I can recall my knees shaking a
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  little bit on that long walk to the mound. I
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  wonder if he's got the radio on listening to
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  a little soothing music as he comes in. Or maybe
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  he's listening to another ball game. Base is
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  loaded and nobody out and it's a tough situation
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  to inherit. With the Russ Nixon due to be the
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  Cleveland batter. Well they didn't break any
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  speed limits with their car that's for sure.
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  I wonder what the speed limit is in the ballpark.
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  There's a good shot of the Kansas City Ground
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  Crew's artistic ability. They've used the chalk
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  lines to draw baseballs and letters KC and so
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  on. Here comes Bob Trowbridge now into your picture.
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  Bob, incidentally, is a nice mullinger. He came
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  over here to Kansas City and he also is a sinker
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  ball pitcher. I know he'll be trying to get this.
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  Next year he hit the ball on the ground. Could
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  have been a reason, Jack, that they brought Trowbridge
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  in. Paul was having trouble getting the ball
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  down. There was no chance for an infield play
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  or a double play. This may have influenced his
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  program and brought Trowbridge. Well they called
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  him last very long and here's Bob Trowbridge
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  who last year for the past few years was at Milwaukee.
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  So this afternoon we're dealing with a lot of
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  former national leaguers and... When we check
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  the athletics periodically, we'll be referring
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  to the fact that he's a former Yankee, and when
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  we deal with the Indians and consider the trading
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  activities of Frank Lane, why the past records
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  of these ballplayers will all turn out to be
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  very interesting, I'm sure. Even the ballplayers
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  were buzzing about some of the most recent trades.
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  Now, ordinarily ballplayers don't talk too much
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  about it. They're not too concerned, but the
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  trades had such impact this past week that the
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  Cleveland players were talking about them. Well,
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  there were surprising trades and some big names
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  involved. This makes for an uneasy feeling, Jack,
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  if you're a ball player and you wonder whether
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  you should send your laundry out or not. This
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  prank caught on at first. Walter Bond running
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  at second base. Here's all on a third. There's
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  nobody out. One run in and the better is the
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  Cleveland catcher, Russ Nixon. infield back the
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  outfield deep and around to the right Nixon wasn't
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  wasting any time Nixon you remember as a father
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  that was involved in that trade between the Indians
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  and the Red Sox with Sammy White being the other
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  player and then white quit the deal was canceled
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  and Nixon came back to Cleveland up there with
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  the base it loaded one and one Hank Bauer is
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  very deep and right. Will Tuttle to shade it
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  over into right center. There's quite a gap in
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  left center between Tuttle and Sir. One run in
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  and the Indians leading. Basin loaded, nobody
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  out. One on one to count. There's a double play
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  ball. play yesterday to start double play. He
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  looks like a sure bet. They're like shortstop.
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  Cleveland first baseman he's gotten up to a pretty
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  good start first and third now with two out.
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  Sounds like the fans would like to see him strike
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  out and what a job it will be. outfield deep
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  straight away and feel back with two out. There's
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  Pierce all on a third base. Frank Connors on
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  at first in the dirt and a nice block by Katie.
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  You didn't want to throw but the other runner
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  went down to second base. Frank Connors goes
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  to second on the wild pitch. Here's all game
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  halfway down the line and Cheney did a tremendous
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  job on that wild pitching that he blocked the
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  ball and kept it out in front of him which is
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  the big item that a catcher must contend with.
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  Keep it out in front of you and control the situation.
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  The count runs to one and one. Power hits one
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  to third. Big hop. Nice play. Here's Quentin
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  69 cents. Here's the Kansas City batting order.
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  Bill Tuttle leading off. Terry Lumpy in second.
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  Hank Bauer third. Norm Seaborn fourth. And Bob
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  Serb. Harry Chidi. The catcher. Bob Johnson.
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  Ken Hamlin batting eighth. And then Trowbridge
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  who has come out in place of Paul. Barry Lampen
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  the pitcher. All the White Sox about to throw
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  his first pitch for the Indians. Slow. Tuttle
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  has three out of 14 and outstanding defensive
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  ballplayer. Another one down there ball to. Cleveland
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  leading one to nothing. Temple double to start
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  the game. The third on a base hit. By Pearsall
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  and came home in a base hit by Walter Bond. Two
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  balls, no strikes to count. Popped up. Should
• 24:43
  be easy. It's foul. The catcher is there. Nixon.
• 24:46
  Now power chases him away and makes the catch.
• 24:49
  Nixon was calling for it, but it's always easier
• 24:51
  for the first baseman than you'd like to see
• 24:53
  him chase that catcher off. gets a chance. That's
• 24:55
  right. Most of the time the first baseman is
• 24:58
  a better shot because he's coming in on the ball
• 25:00
  and not going away. The ball isn't going away
• 25:02
  from him. He's coming in to meet it. Here's Jerry
• 25:05
  Lumpy Jack ready to take his legs. Jerry Lumpy
• 25:08
  the second baseman. One out and nobody out. Good
• 25:15
  one. Up behind the first hitter and now gets
• 25:18
  ahead of Lumpy. Indians came up with three hits
• 25:25
  in that first inning. What a job that Trowbridge
• 25:29
  did. Out of play. Strike two. Now somebody got
• 25:41
  a souvenir there, Jack. Easy way. He's lounging
• 25:44
  up there in the grass. He picked up that baseball.
• 25:49
  No balls, two strikes. Youngster has a tough
• 25:55
  time to ballpark today Jack Outrooting all the
• 25:58
  adults that after a foul ball and they ruin $100
• 26:02
  suits $30 hats trying to get a 275 baseball One
• 26:08
  ball two strikes one out. Nobody got a lumpy
• 26:15
  Russ Nixon is the Cleveland catcher the plate
• 26:21
  umpire is Al Smith Barry Latman involved in the
• 26:25
  trade for her score. Ready to fire the 2 -2.
• 26:32
  Full count now. There's Hank Power, who already
• 26:37
  has been taken to the hearts of these Kansas
• 26:39
  City fans. He'll be up there next. Bring him
• 26:45
  to the count. The athletics are a run down. That's
• 27:01
  a high pop line to short right. Here comes Walter
• 27:03
  Bond on the run. Look out, he held it. Bond caught
• 27:07
  the ball. No, it was Power. Power caught the
• 27:10
  ball and Big Bond hit him from behind and he
• 27:12
  still held the ball. Duffel couldn't get in on
• 27:15
  the play. The ball was fair when it was caught.
• 27:28
  Power. Power taking a little time coming back
• 27:31
  to his position there at first base as Hank Bauer
• 27:33
  steps in. Banks are going to call time to see
• 27:36
  if power is shaking up at all. It's taking it
• 27:39
  very, very easy coming in. Looked as though he
• 27:42
  got stepped on in that shuffle down there. About
• 27:45
  three of them are trying to stand on the same
• 27:46
  spot under that ball. OK, he's all right. Back
• 27:50
  at his position and there are two out. One to
• 28:04
  nothing. The Indians lead the A's. Changed up
• 28:08
  on him and he fouled it on the screen. Evens
• 28:10
  a count one and one. I asked Hank around the
• 28:13
  batting gauge before the game if he made the
• 28:15
  deal to come to Kansas City or George Weiss.
• 28:18
  This is Hank's home and I know he's happy about
• 28:20
  being here. As much as he didn't miss out on
• 28:26
  the World Series money last year. Foul again.
• 28:30
  These A's have a rather formidable ball club.
• 28:35
  A couple of youngsters in the infield. There's
• 28:37
  Norm Seaborn waiting to hit next. One ball, two
• 28:46
  strikes to count. Barry Lattman breezing through
• 28:49
  this first inning. and down they go in order.
• 29:10
  Three up and three away in the first inning for
• 29:13
  the Kansas City Athletics. And so at the end
• 29:17
  of the first inning the score is Cleveland one
• 29:19
  and Kansas City nothing. Second inning of the
• 29:56
  ballgame. Kansas City Municipal Stadium, Harry
• 29:59
  Cheney the catcher. Bob Trowbridge on the mound.
• 30:05
  Mr. Woody Held gets ready to step in and start
• 30:08
  the second frame. See Al Smith, the plate umpire,
• 30:13
  uses that inflated chest protector. Woody Held,
• 30:17
  the shortstop, the batter. Very few of the umpires
• 30:20
  use the inflated job. Bob Trowbridge, first one
• 30:26
  here. It's a ball. I think you're finding the
• 30:30
  American like Jack they use this outside protector
• 30:32
  the most. Jocko Collins is the only guy I know
• 30:34
  in the national league that uses it. What he
• 30:39
  held takes another one low. He held at 29 home
• 30:44
  runs last year. Has none so far this year. Two
• 30:48
  hits out of 11 trips. Nobody on or out in the
• 30:55
  second inning. to get a breaking ball over on
• 31:01
  his behind and then the count to three and oh
• 31:03
  now. Nick Hall started got nobody out. Three
• 31:12
  and one. That's about the only time you see this
• 31:18
  foul throw went straight Jack is when he's he
• 31:21
  knows that the hitter is hitting. Red Cress is
• 31:29
  the first base coach for the Cleveland Club.
• 31:33
  And Joe Joe White on the other side of the diamond.
• 31:37
  Three and to the count. High and easy in the
• 31:41
  center field. Bill Tuttle going back. It's well
• 31:43
  hit. Not much more room. He's out. You can tell
• 31:48
  by watching Tuttle that he had the ball all the
• 31:50
  way but he couldn't have gone much further. The
• 31:53
  wind seems to be above the stands blowing very
• 31:56
  hard. Here's the third baseman, a former Chicago
• 32:12
  player, Bubba Phillips. On the screen and out
• 32:17
  of play. The power hitting of what he held Tito
• 32:26
  Francona, and they hope Walter Bond is one of
• 32:33
  the reasons why they were able to trade Colabito.
• 32:36
  They figured they had enough power. They're anxious
• 32:39
  to get a fellow like Harvey Keene, but unfortunately
• 32:41
  Keene is riding the bench with a bad leg. There's
• 32:44
  that base hit. Into left center. Let's see if
• 32:47
  he tries for two. Tuttle is up with it. No play.
• 32:53
  A base hit for Bubba Phillips. That's the fourth
• 32:56
  hit of the day for the Cleveland Club. Down there
• 32:58
  talking things over with Norm Seaburn. And the
• 33:03
  Cleveland pitcher will be the batter. One to
• 33:08
  nothing, Cleveland is leading this quarter run
• 33:10
  in the first. And in case you joined us late,
• 33:12
  Temple doubled. First all single him to third.
• 33:15
  Walter Byam drove in the run with a base hit.
• 33:17
  Then a walk to Frank Connott. And the starting
• 33:20
  pitcher, Dick Hall, was out of there. This is
• 33:25
  Lattman. He's going to bunt. Misses. No play
• 33:29
  at first. Cheney came up ready to throw, but
• 33:32
  Sebring was charging in. We were talking to Bob
• 33:34
  Elliott before about Sebring playing first base.
• 33:36
  It's a strange position for him. He's an outfielder.
• 33:38
  He played for a couple of weeks in spring training
• 33:40
  and played his first game at first base yesterday.
• 33:43
  And these are the situations of which he is unsure
• 33:46
  when to charge in, when to hold the runner close
• 33:49
  and so forth. There's a bunt that's fair if Cheney
• 33:52
  picks it up and whoa, he's out. It appeared that
• 33:58
  Chidi in order not to hit the runner tried to
• 34:00
  lob the ball and not throw it with a good stuff
• 34:03
  on it to first base. This is a sure way to throw
• 34:05
  a ball away. Lumpy was the man who covered. Phillips
• 34:10
  goes down into scoring position when coming out
• 34:12
  of the top of the batting order. And here's the
• 34:15
  guy that started it all in the first inning Johnny
• 34:17
  Temple. Doubled in the first and has scored the
• 34:20
  only run of the game. With two men out. Bob Trowbridge
• 34:27
  is the pitcher. In the dirt. You can see the
• 34:36
  difference. Trowbridge keeping the ball down.
• 34:40
  As compared to Dick Hall the starting pitcher.
• 34:44
  That's Phillips. Right. This club has about five
• 34:46
  or six sinker ball pitchers. Strike gets the
• 34:51
  ball. One and one. I was talking to Harry Chidi
• 34:53
  indeed. He's got you before the game. He said
• 34:56
  a sinker ball pitch is very effective in this
• 34:58
  park because everybody goes up there pumping
• 35:00
  for that short lead field. Three thirty down
• 35:02
  the line. A rather easy park to hit home run.
• 35:06
  Sinker ball artists cause them to beat the ball
• 35:08
  in the ground when they're swinging from the
• 35:09
  heel. So one ball one strike count. Used to go
• 35:18
  into st. Louis Jack when Jerry Staley was pitching
• 35:21
  and I think they I think they went down that
• 35:23
  infield pretty good in front of the plate One
• 35:50
  ball, two strikes, and it's two and two. Johnny
• 35:54
  was lamenting the fact that it's rough to be
• 35:57
  traded to the other league. It's one thing to
• 35:58
  be traded within the league, but when you go
• 36:00
  to the other league, you lose all the knowledge
• 36:02
  of the pitches that you've gained if you're a
• 36:03
  student of the game as Temple is. He uses the
• 36:07
  reverse of most fellas. Big hitters for power
• 36:09
  use light bats. Johnny, who swings not too hard,
• 36:12
  uses a very heavy bat, somewhere near 40 ounces
• 36:15
  on occasions. Just pecks that ball. There's one
• 36:19
  to the second baseman. Lumpy charges it, gets
• 36:21
  the big hop. Temple is thrown out by Lumpy to
• 36:27
  Seaburn. No runs, one hit. No errors, and one
• 36:29
  man left on base. And so at the end of an inning
• 36:32
  and a half, the score is Cleveland 1, Kansas
• 36:35
  City nothing. I've had my eye on you all night.
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  achievement This super blue blade. Here's a blade
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  that in any Gillette razor glides across your
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  hardly believe it. Ten for 69 cents or get a
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  supply with a Gillette adjustable razor. Only
• 37:29
  a dollar ninety -five. Seaborn has gotten off
• 37:53
  to a terrific start hitting 400 with four out
• 37:56
  of ten two homers. He undertook a conditioning
• 38:00
  program during the off season and has paid off.
• 38:03
  He's at a real hot spring. Outfield deep and
• 38:06
  around on the right. Ball two. Nixon started
• 38:11
  to chase it. New one goes to the mouth. I think
• 38:16
  players Jack realized more than ever that there's
• 38:18
  really no off season anymore. That's man should
• 38:21
  stay in shape the year round. All three three
• 38:28
  and all. Bob serve will hit next. You'll be followed
• 38:31
  by Harry Chidi. He's got quite a bit of power.
• 38:36
  Bauer Seaborn serve and Chidi all capable of.
• 38:40
  Hitting the ball out with regularity. That means
• 38:44
  three nothing. in blue Jack. Never been wrong
• 38:55
  yet. Three balls and a strike. About that one
• 39:05
  ball. Well there's the first baserunner. Seaburn
• 39:11
  is wearing those big. Airplane. Bob Serb. He
• 39:35
  belted one here yesterday. They say if you get
• 39:38
  the ball up and serves eyes while you're headed
• 39:40
  for trouble because he has a lot of power in
• 39:42
  that high pitch. First baseman power is holding
• 39:47
  Seaman close. One and one. Here's a fellow Jack
• 39:52
  I don't believe I've seen a ballplayer this year.
• 39:55
  any other year for that matter. It's in any better
• 39:57
  shape than serve. This fella is hard as nails.
• 40:00
  Watch him swing that bat. He has three out of
• 40:05
  eight so far, for the season. See him in a short
• 40:10
  lead. Two balls and a strike. Served last year
• 40:19
  had 20 home runs. 87 RBI's. Lattmann slowing
• 40:25
  down a little bit. Two balls and a strike. Hit
• 40:37
  it off the end of the bat and it looks like it's
• 40:39
  going to drop. It does. See when it stops at
• 40:42
  second. Hit that one right off the end of the
• 40:45
  bat. When the fellow like serve swings the bat.
• 40:49
  and connects the outfielders instinctively start
• 40:52
  to break back when he takes a full swing like
• 40:53
  he did there. When it's off the end of the bat
• 40:56
  they oftentimes miss that step coming in on the
• 40:58
  ball. You know this serve is kind of a hitter.
• 41:08
  You hear fellas say Jack that he's a wrist hitter
• 41:11
  like Ernie Banks or Hank Aaron. This guy is a
• 41:15
  muscle hitter. He hits with his muscles. We had
• 41:19
  a close up look at Seabourn. And serve and now
• 41:23
  here's the catcher Harry Chidi who has four out
• 41:25
  of twelve so far. Indian infield looking for
• 41:29
  the double play ball. Ball one. Boy that ball
• 41:35
  was just in the weathering of that catching glove.
• 41:46
  That man's a pretty big fellow at six three ways
• 41:49
  to ten. One eight and lost five for the White
• 41:52
  Sox last year. One ball no strikes to count.
• 41:55
  There's nobody out here. That man thought he
• 42:02
  had a strike on that one. Cleveland is leading
• 42:07
  one to nothing scored around the first. And they
• 42:11
  were blanked in the second days after going down
• 42:13
  in order in the first inning. Started with a
• 42:15
  walk to Siebert. And a base hit by Bob Serve.
• 42:22
  And it's two balls and no strikes to Harry Chidi.
• 42:27
  Foul on the screen. Not much room to chase the
• 42:32
  foul balls here. Grandstand rather close to the
• 42:36
  playing field. Two balls and a strike. Three
• 42:52
  and one. GD was out and now he gets back in.
• 43:09
  Nobody out here on the bottom of the second as
• 43:11
  the A's threaten to get back in the ballgame
• 43:13
  trailing one to nothing. Gillette bringing in
• 43:15
  the ballgame from Kansas City. Jack Buck here
• 43:18
  along with Carl Erskine. 3 and 1. Popped up foul
• 43:26
  and out of play. 3 and 2 now. Can't give up on
• 43:34
  those pop flies too soon Jack because of the
• 43:36
  wind blowing above the stands. Sometimes carries
• 43:39
  that ball back in. Nixon kept a good eye on it
• 43:41
  all the way. There's Don Hefner coaching it.
• 43:43
  third base for these athletics. Oh Walker Cooper
• 43:46
  at first. Three and two the count. I wonder if
• 43:51
  the runners will be moving with nobody out to
• 43:53
  try to avoid the double play. A lot of factors
• 43:57
  enter into the decision which has to be made
• 43:59
  by Bob Elliott. He's a trailing one to nothing
• 44:02
  here early in the game. To consider who's running
• 44:10
  who's coming up next. He strikes out very often.
• 44:14
  The speed of the base runners. A lot of factors.
• 44:18
  Nobody out. Runners on it first and second. Three
• 44:20
  and two the count. They're not going. That's
• 44:27
  hit foul. They really smashed that one. Chase
• 44:30
  them off the bench down there in the Cleveland
• 44:32
  bullpen. Still three and two. See these bullpens
• 44:42
  in the spring. They have about 15, 20 players
• 44:44
  down there it seems like. Comes cut down date.
• 44:48
  They really fit them out. Chudy had five home
• 44:51
  runs last year for the A's. To give you an idea
• 44:54
  of the power. There's a Micah throw. A couple
• 45:17
  of singles in the ballgame tied. Serve stopped
• 45:20
  at second. Left fielder Frank Connick could make
• 45:23
  no play. Sebring scored. It's tied one to one
• 45:28
  and here's Bob Johnson. Bob Johnson the third
• 45:36
  baseman. Nobody out. Ball game tied. Latman seems
• 45:49
  to be having trouble with his curve ball. He's
• 45:51
  hung the ball up in the, up around the shoulders,
• 45:54
  up around the eyes two or three times. Got in
• 45:58
  trouble pitching to Seaburn by throwing two curve
• 46:02
  balls for the boss. Pitch from Latman and it
• 46:13
  is a strike. First and second here nobody out.
• 46:26
  Last of the second score tied one to one. With
• 46:32
  Cheney getting the RBI. Bond had the run vetted
• 46:34
  in for Cleveland. Here's the play to first. Made
• 46:40
  it pretty close. Big power playing behind the
• 46:53
  runner and trying to sneak in there. Double play
• 46:58
  ball perhaps. Out there. First and third now.
• 47:08
  The ball wasn't sharply hit. Bubba Phillips started
• 47:13
  to play at third base. Bob Johnson reaches on
• 47:16
  the Bueller's choice. He was forced to second
• 47:19
  and serve went to third. And here's the shortstop
• 47:23
  of the athletics. Ken Hamlin. Formerly in the
• 47:28
  Pirate Organization last year played in Columbus
• 47:30
  Ohio. First and third with one out. Score tied.
• 47:38
  That's right. Well that Nixon really moves around
• 47:41
  behind that plate. Down the move all the time.
• 47:44
  We talked about Darrell Rice last week being
• 47:46
  a good shifting catcher and Nixon taking a page
• 47:49
  out of Darrell Rice's book. Ships on everything.
• 48:01
  At least the fly ball to drive in the tie breaking
• 48:03
  run. Foul on the screen. Trying to go into right
• 48:08
  field with it. Strike two. I'll bet Barry Linton
• 48:12
  hasn't set up for the strikeout which he'd like
• 48:14
  to get. The pitch is due to hit next. Sun trying
• 48:22
  to break through here in Kansas City. Windy overcast
• 48:27
  day. Third serve on the third base. Johnson on
• 48:30
  it first. is still throwing in the bullpen. Might
• 48:52
  have a play at the plate as the center fielder
• 48:56
  Pierce Hall is there. Serb tags up. Here he comes.
• 48:59
  There's the throw and he goes back. Went back
• 49:04
  to third base. The ball was not hit very deep
• 49:07
  at all. You could tell the way Serb came down
• 49:12
  the line watching the outfielder that he was
• 49:14
  not intent on trying to. So Hamlin couldn't get
• 49:30
  the fly ball and the runners are still on it
• 49:32
  first and third with two out now and left with
• 49:33
  just about out of the inning which started off
• 49:35
  in rough fashion for him with a walk and two
• 49:37
  singles. And now here is Trowbridge. I don't
• 49:42
  recall him being too formidable with that bat.
• 49:44
  He takes his swings up there. He's respectable
• 49:47
  for a pitcher. Strike one. And the last of the
• 49:53
  second is a score to run here and tied the game
• 49:56
  one to one. Nixon wasn't aware he'd missed the
• 50:32
  ball and hit in his glove squirted through and
• 50:34
  rolled behind him. And this is the break serve
• 50:38
  got it making it because Nixon didn't jump on
• 50:40
  that ball it got behind in a hurry. He wasn't
• 50:42
  sure it had. Count goes to one and one on Trowbridge
• 50:46
  with Johnson on its second down two out. That
• 50:49
  might be trouble. He got him. Would have been
• 50:54
  trouble but Trowbridge doesn't run very well.
• 50:56
  Jumple made the play and that's the end of the
• 50:58
  second inning for the Athletics. Dependable.
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  has broken through here at Kansas City, as you
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  can see from the shadows on the field, as Bob
• 52:17
  Trowbridge came on and did a fine job in relief.
• 52:22
  Now has been staked to a one -run lead as the
• 52:25
  third inning. gets underway. Harry Chidi there
• 52:29
  and the Indians number two hitter in their lineup.
• 52:33
  Jimmy Pearsall. He single his first time up and
• 52:35
  was left down. They play straight away for him.
• 52:43
  Strong wind blowing out toward left. It's popped
• 52:50
  up. It's foul. Seabron chasing it. A play like
• 53:01
  that is put to the discretion of the official
• 53:04
  scorer as to whether or not the fielder should
• 53:06
  be charged with an error. In that case they said
• 53:09
  no. No play. That wasn't an easy chance. The
• 53:12
  ball was going away from him and he was running
• 53:15
  toward the stands. Seaman playing a strange position
• 53:19
  down there at first base as we've told you earlier.
• 53:21
  Normally an outfielder. The count is one strike
• 53:26
  to Jim Pearsall. play. The ball is two strikes.
• 53:41
  Nobody on her out here in the third inning with
• 53:43
  Kansas City leading two to one. The Indians looking
• 53:45
  for their first win of the year. Pretty ballpark
• 53:49
  here as you can tell. You look around following
• 53:52
  the progress of this contest. One ball two strikes.
• 53:59
  Jack Buck here along with Karl Erskine and Gillette
• 54:01
  bringing you the ball game from Kansas City.
• 54:13
  First all hits another foul. Well next week we'll
• 54:21
  be able to talk about the Dodgers and the Giants.
• 54:24
  It'll be good to see the Dodgers again. That's
• 54:27
  right. I'll see all my old buddies out there
• 54:29
  and it'll be a little difficult for me to take
• 54:31
  a neutral position up here in this booth, Jack.
• 54:34
  You'd better. Carl Oisken. One ball, two strikes,
• 54:40
  curve ball, two and two. This trouble shows a
• 54:43
  knuckler once in a while. Occasionally, usually
• 54:46
  when he's ahead of the batter. My old friends
• 54:50
  in Brooklyn says there comes Oisken from Ft.
• 54:52
  Wythe. Two and to the count and first saw hits
• 54:56
  one down the line. There's trouble. Nice play
• 54:59
  by sir. Awesome to a single. Here's all gets
• 55:04
  his second hit. I imagine Mr. Keane is mentioning
• 55:09
  a bit on the bench. I wonder if he will get back
• 55:12
  in the lineup with that leg heel. That was hit
• 55:17
  number five. For Cleveland. Here's Walter Bond.
• 55:22
  He drove in there running the first inning. You
• 55:26
  know, people wonder why they have six weeks of
• 55:28
  spring training, spend a lot of money, and take
• 55:30
  these fellows down in the warm sunshine. But
• 55:32
  there's a good example of Harvey Keene, who I
• 55:37
  think reported late this year and then came up
• 55:40
  with an injury. First pitch was a strike to Bond.
• 55:48
  I'll be aware out of the right deep, they have
• 55:49
  to keep their eye on Prisock. We're gonna run
• 55:52
  those bases. Foul. This fella swings from the
• 55:57
  hill. Makes it strike two. How would you throw
• 56:02
  him now, Tom? Well, uh, maybe he should throw
• 56:08
  this one under the plate. With two strikes. Those
• 56:11
  managers jump up and down on that bench when
• 56:14
  they hit a two -strike pitch. They really scream.
• 56:17
  It's no balls, two strikes. Sebring holding the
• 56:20
  runner close. A lot of room for the right side
• 56:22
  for the left -handed batter. Nobody out here.
• 56:26
  Wasted that one. The A's leading the Indians
• 56:30
  2 -1 at the end of 2. The base hit you just witnessed
• 56:39
  off the bat of Pearsaw was hit number 1 ,000
• 56:41
  for Jim in his big league career. Bond pops it
• 56:46
  foul and it's going to be near the stands. Johnson
• 56:49
  chasing it, the wind moving it, and he baffled
• 56:51
  but couldn't get it. Went a long way after the
• 56:55
  ball and started off like it was going to be
• 56:56
  way out of play. And then the wind, which Carl
• 56:58
  pointed out to you earlier, the fact that you
• 57:00
  can't give up on a ball. Then he brought the
• 57:03
  ball back in, but Johnson couldn't catch up to
• 57:06
  it. It's still one and two to Walter Bond. Something
• 57:12
  exists here now that you can see very well in
• 57:14
  your picture. A shadow at the plate and the bright
• 57:17
  sunshine at the mound. This is a makes it difficult
• 57:20
  at the plate to see and as the game progresses
• 57:22
  I think this shadow will eventually move on out
• 57:25
  past the mound one ball two strikes He's in here
• 57:29
  looking for the double play the outfielders are
• 57:31
  all deep First all started with a single he's
• 57:35
  not first nobody out Well hit You can tell why
• 57:42
  the Indians like this guy Walter bond is big
• 57:45
  about six five well over 200 pounds He really
• 57:50
  swings that toothpick. Looks like a toothpick
• 57:53
  in his hands up there. He spreads out the plate
• 57:59
  almost as wide as the box is marked off. Trubridge
• 58:06
  calls time once to get together with Cheney.
• 58:19
  Oh, by the way, this guy's a pretty good hitter.
• 58:22
  Better cover what you throw. Everyone wonders,
• 58:27
  what do they talk about on the mound? They don't
• 58:29
  always joke, but quite often it's a case of breaking
• 58:32
  a little tension out there, putting the pitcher's
• 58:34
  mind at ease, and occasionally they'll throw
• 58:37
  in a little gem of a suggestion of how you might
• 58:40
  get the hitter out. One ball, two strikes to
• 58:44
  count. Nobody out here. throw a bridge writes
• 58:57
  up his first strikeout first all still on a first
• 58:59
  base and here's the number four hitter in the
• 59:03
  Indian lineup left fielder Tito Francona he walked
• 59:13
  his first time up of the right deep for this
• 59:27
  fellow. He really blossomed into quite a hitter
• 59:31
  last year. Ball two and it doesn't pay to get
• 59:36
  behind these fellows. Pearsall singled and Bond
• 59:46
  struck out. That's what's happened so far here
• 59:48
  in the third inning. Kansas City leading Cleveland
• 59:52
  two to one although. Out hit five to two. Trying
• 59:57
  to throw a breaking ball. Two and all and runs
• 1:00:00
  it to three and all. Three balls, no strikes.
• 1:00:10
  And it wouldn't be too surprising when the runner
• 1:00:12
  on base, Pearsall, see Frank Kona chop down on
• 1:00:16
  this three -nothing pitch. Ball for him. Trowbridge
• 1:00:22
  gives up his first walk. Frank Conner goes to
• 1:00:27
  first. Red Crest is the coach. And here's the
• 1:00:33
  Cleveland catcher who hit into a double play
• 1:00:35
  in the first inning. Very solid second base.
• 1:00:45
  Russ Nixon is the batter. Pops it up. It's foul.
• 1:00:51
  Johnson chasing it near the stands. Looks like
• 1:00:53
  he's going to have a play. He's failed with men
• 1:01:00
  on base twice. So it's two on, two out. Here's
• 1:01:08
  the old Kansas City favorite coming up. Two on
• 1:01:32
  and two out. Tang run is on his second base for
• 1:01:35
  the Indians. Bob Trowbridge the pitcher. his
• 1:02:04
  first time up the third baseman threw him out.
• 1:02:08
  Everybody else saying action this afternoon.
• 1:02:11
  At the end of this inning we'll be able to give
• 1:02:13
  you all the scores of all the games. Couple of
• 1:02:19
  the ballgames are over. Not too big a crowd on
• 1:02:25
  this Saturday afternoon in Kansas City. He's
• 1:02:30
  played their home opener yesterday. Power hits
• 1:02:33
  another foul and out of play. Yes sir, next week
• 1:02:44
  on big league baseball, the Dodgers and the Giants.
• 1:02:48
  When those two get together, there's bound to
• 1:02:51
  be some action. That's low. Count runs to two
• 1:03:00
  and two on Power. Two balls, two strikes to count.
• 1:04:09
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• 1:04:53
  the athletics do in the third inning here. They
• 1:04:56
  start with the top of the batting order. The
• 1:04:59
  center fielder, Bill Tuttle. Curve ball in there.
• 1:05:05
  He fouled out his first time. Phillips to power.
• 1:05:47
  One man gone here. Lappman breezed through the
• 1:05:50
  first inning and then got in trouble in the second.
• 1:05:52
  Started it with a walk and then two singles.
• 1:05:54
  Chibi drove in a run and then a pass ball allowed
• 1:05:56
  another run. Jerry Lumpy here popped to the first
• 1:06:01
  base for his first time. It's a foul near the
• 1:06:04
  stands and out of play. Phillips chasing over.
• 1:06:19
  One strike to count. Latman wants a new baseball.
• 1:06:25
  The Latman score trade. Seemed to bring about
• 1:06:29
  the opinion of everybody that was good for both
• 1:06:34
  ball clubs. Opinion still divided of course.
• 1:06:39
  On the Colavito Harvey Keene trade. One ball
• 1:06:43
  one strike to Jerry Lumpy. Bauer strikes out
• 1:08:55
  for the second time and he's been the only athletic
• 1:08:58
  victimized by Latvian. Bumper gets a new supply
• 1:09:02
  of baseballs. And here's a fellow that started
• 1:09:06
  the rally in the second inning by drawing a walk.
• 1:09:10
  First baseman, Norm Siebert. Two men gone. The
• 1:09:26
  turn is thrown out by Johnny Temple. Bumpy got
• 1:09:29
  a hit in the inning. No runs, one hit, no errors.
• 1:09:35
  One man left on base and so the score at the
• 1:09:37
  end of three innings is the Athletics two, the
• 1:09:39
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• 1:10:04
  at some scores of some of the other ballgames
• 1:10:06
  as this one goes into the fourth. Detroit won
• 1:10:08
  another, defeating Chicago 6 to 2. Larry the
• 1:10:11
  winner over Pierce. And Boston won out over Washington
• 1:10:14
  8 to 3. Fornelli is against Passball. There's
• 1:10:17
  the other score. The Yankees leading Baltimore
• 1:10:18
  3 to 2 in the seventh. In the national league,
• 1:10:21
  Cincinnati and Philadelphia are tied 2 and 2.
• 1:10:24
  in the ninth. First person Woody held is a strike.
• 1:10:30
  Pittsburgh leading Milwaukee five to four at
• 1:10:33
  the end of eight. And that Giants score, the
• 1:10:35
  Giants lead the Cubs seven, ten to two at the
• 1:10:38
  end of seven. Trowbridge. Next delivery is hit
• 1:10:43
  to the shortstop, Hamlin. One out. Held is thrown
• 1:10:47
  out by Ken Hamlin. What about that score? The
• 1:10:52
  Giants 17 and the Cubs 2 at the end of 7. And
• 1:10:57
  the Dodgers lead the Cardinals 5 to 4 at the
• 1:10:59
  end of 6. One man gone here in the fourth inning.
• 1:11:08
  Bubba Phillips single this first time. It's a
• 1:11:10
  foul. The Giants are flexing their muscles today
• 1:11:13
  over there. We said they had a lot of power in
• 1:11:16
  the middle of that lineup. The power up and down
• 1:11:19
  the lineup today 17 to 2. I know earlier Nicky
• 1:11:27
  and Nicky Pater had a home run and Bob Schmidt
• 1:11:29
  did one with two men on. Now the saying is if
• 1:11:32
  you're going to lose one lose one right. Chicago
• 1:11:35
  can say they're losing this one right today.
• 1:11:37
  It's not overdue. He's still got a hit in the
• 1:11:54
  second inning. That was his first hit of the
• 1:11:55
  year. He's one for 10 now. Trowbridge in addition
• 1:12:00
  to his good sinker ball throws a lot of sliders
• 1:12:02
  a lot of breaking ball and all three of those
• 1:12:03
  were breaking balls and look each one a little
• 1:12:06
  farther outside. Well here's the pitcher he sacrificed
• 1:12:11
  the first time up. Barry Lappman. Pops it up
• 1:12:16
  to second seconds. Having a little trouble now,
• 1:12:20
  calls for it. So, Trowbridge has a very eerie
• 1:12:28
  evening. Although, monthly staggered a bit under
• 1:12:30
  that pop fly. With the wind and the sun being
• 1:12:33
  what it is. Now, at the end of three and a half
• 1:12:36
  innings, the score is the A's two and the Indians
• 1:12:38
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  left fielder. Four out of eight so far this season
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  including this game. Nice play. Johnny Temple
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  scooting to his right throws out Bob Sir. The
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  Indians got a valuable piece of poverty when
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  they got Johnny Temple. Of course they gave up
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  one of their big winners. The Red Legs needed
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  some pitches. Cal go surprise when he starts
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  pitching in that small park in Cincinnati Strike
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  the duty and they jump out of there pretty good
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  First a homerun these days is to be found in
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  any ballpark where these fellas can sock that
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  ball One and one to Harry Chidi He's catcher.
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  He's single and drove in the first athletic run
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  in the second inning And another run scored on
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  a pass ball Finds the ace on top. Two to one.
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  Here with one out and nobody on in the fourth.
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  Curve ball. One ball, two strikes. Now we have
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  pretty good battle going between Trowbridge,
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  who relieved Dick Hall, the Kansas City starter.
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  A good battle between Trowbridge and Barry Letman.
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  Phillips has to back up and play the long hop.
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  Up and down and out. Oh, and up in the air, and
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  then we have plenty of time with cheaty running,
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  and that's two out. One thing about it, Carl,
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  whenever you see an athlete in any sport, do
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  something with an unnatural motion like Phillips,
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  and then we have plenty of time. That's when
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  they make the mistakes. Not only that, but that's
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  when you get hurt. First pitch to Bob Johnson
• 1:15:47
  is a ball you need to hurt physically. Right,
• 1:15:49
  I think in football they will always stress this
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  point with so much body contact to always do
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  the natural thing and always do the thing to
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  the fullest. Ball two to Johnson. Any maneuvers
• 1:16:03
  you shy away from or don't do all out, this is
• 1:16:06
  the time you get hurt. On basketball you're going
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  for a layup when you're all by yourself, no opposition,
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  you just do something different because you know
• 1:16:13
  that you don't have to bear down. And that's
• 1:16:16
  when you blow the shot. Two out of nobody on
• 1:16:19
  two balls, no strikes to count. Johnson hit that
• 1:16:22
  one right off the end of the bat. He can chalk
• 1:16:24
  up now. Reach on the field of choice in the second
• 1:16:26
  inning. He's the A's third baseman, a rookie,
• 1:16:28
  whom they drafted. Hey, old bird dog, Cooper,
• 1:16:32
  still bounce around down there in that coaching
• 1:16:33
  box. Well, we saw him in batting breakers. Walker,
• 1:16:36
  Cooper, dulled a couple out of this ballpark.
• 1:16:40
  That's ball three to Johnson. He's batting in
• 1:16:48
  the number seven spot. That's been working in
• 1:16:54
  a hurry, Watson. This Johnson, at whom we're
• 1:17:03
  looking right now, bears a remarkable resemblance
• 1:17:07
  to Rocky Colabido. In fact, they've already nicknamed
• 1:17:11
  him Rocky. Here's Ken Hamlin, the shortstop.
• 1:17:16
  Fly out to center field his first time up. Throw
• 1:17:19
  to first. Two to one, the A's lead here in the
• 1:17:27
  fourth inning. Right down the middle. One and
• 1:17:37
  one. Slamming and throw rather hard. I was talking
• 1:17:42
  to some of the thugs before the game today and
• 1:17:44
  asked him what basically his stuff was. They
• 1:17:46
  said just good hard fastball and a good hard
• 1:17:49
  curve. It's a pretty good combination. One and
• 1:17:52
  one to the batter, Hamlin. Curveball hit the
• 1:17:55
  third base. The play is going to be the second
• 1:17:57
  to Temple. Johnson is forced by Hamlin from Bubba
• 1:18:02
  Phillips to Johnny Temple. No runs, no hits,
• 1:18:05
  no errors, and one man left on base. And the
• 1:18:08
  score at the end of the fall betting the athletics
• 1:18:10
  two and Cleveland one. what we need. Johnny Temples
• 1:19:21
  the batter he doubled his first time up and scored
• 1:19:23
  a run that's the way the ballgame started. Then
• 1:19:25
  he ground it out back in the second inning. He
• 1:19:29
  has two for 16 which is not much like Johnny
• 1:19:31
  Temple. Tries to bunt and it goes foul. He'll
• 1:19:37
  do a little bit of everything. He'll do that
• 1:19:39
  with two out too. John's expecting a summer this
• 1:19:44
  year that he can maintain his weight and his
• 1:19:47
  strength because in that. hot ballpark in Cincinnati
• 1:19:50
  playing one hundred and fifty four and as the
• 1:19:52
  way this guy moves around he always lost weight
• 1:19:54
  during the season. So he's looking forward to
• 1:19:57
  those cool days in Cleveland this year when he
• 1:19:59
  can probably keep that weight up that at 311
• 1:20:04
  last year. Take strike to strike out very often.
• 1:20:12
  Nobody out here in the fifth inning. It's going
• 1:20:14
  to be a temple for us all and Walter Bond. We're
• 1:20:17
  around at the top of Cleveland batting order
• 1:20:18
  again. A real good eye up at the plate. Cleveland's
• 1:20:29
  quarter run in the first. The A's came back with
• 1:20:31
  two in the second. This is Bob Trowbridge who
• 1:20:34
  relieved Dick Hall in the first inning. We're
• 1:20:37
  waiting for Harry Chidi to fix the mask. He had
• 1:20:41
  it off. Made an adjustment. Now he's ready to
• 1:20:44
  go. One ball two strikes. number 37. He'll be
• 1:20:59
  up there next. Here's the 2 -2. Very close. 3
• 1:21:09
  -2. It's a lot of courage to take that pitch
• 1:21:14
  in a 2 -2 count. Yeah, Trowbridge out there has
• 1:21:17
  nibbled it outside of that plate three straight
• 1:21:19
  pitches down attempting to get Temple out of
• 1:21:21
  there with two strikes on him. And he's just
• 1:21:24
  missed. A shot in the left. Serve is on the go.
• 1:21:29
  It's going to be off the wall. Might have a play
• 1:21:31
  at second base. Temple is held to a single. A
• 1:21:33
  nice play by Bob Serr. Temple really caught that
• 1:21:38
  one right off the three thirty sign out in left
• 1:21:41
  field. When it became apparent to serve that
• 1:21:43
  he wasn't going to be able to get to the ball.
• 1:21:46
  He took a fine position and got a good rebound.
• 1:21:50
  They don't hold their runners to singles very
• 1:21:52
  often on a shot off that wall. Here's Pearsall.
• 1:21:57
  It's hit number six for Cleveland. Hit number
• 1:22:01
  two for Johnny Temple. He got it on a 3 -2 pitch.
• 1:22:08
  Pearsall punts. The play is going to be the first
• 1:22:10
  base. Now Pearsall was punting for the hit but
• 1:22:12
  he got it right back to the mound. Temple went
• 1:22:14
  to second. So it's a sacrifice. Throw bridge
• 1:22:21
  to Seaburn. Some of the boys will tell that he
• 1:22:28
  was protecting that average of his. Had a pretty
• 1:22:32
  good idea with this big fella coming up, Walter
• 1:22:34
  Bond. He's single and drove in a run back in
• 1:22:37
  the first inning, then he struck out in the third.
• 1:22:40
  Indian rookie right fielder. Tying run, temple
• 1:22:43
  on its second base. And one man out here in the
• 1:22:46
  fifth. wearing sunglasses now. The wind doesn't
• 1:23:03
  seem to be quite as strong as it was earlier
• 1:23:05
  blowing out toward center field. One and one
• 1:23:12
  to bind. Bob Trowbridge formerly of Milwaukee.
• 1:23:32
  Johnny Temple on its second base. A curveball
• 1:23:37
  hit into deep right. That ball is trouble and
• 1:23:40
  it's out of here. That ball really jumped. A
• 1:23:43
  curveball. And he hit it out. Scoring Temple
• 1:23:48
  ahead of him. That ties the score as Temple steps
• 1:23:51
  on the plate. And now Bond's run puts them ahead.
• 1:23:56
  A single and a homer. And the Indians are out
• 1:23:59
  in front by the score of 3 to 2. And now Tito
• 1:24:10
  Frank Conner wears walk twice. It's a bouncing
• 1:24:14
  ball to lumpy. Really hung a curve ball to bond
• 1:24:26
  didn't he Carl. That ball is up. Certainly was
• 1:24:29
  up and a little bit in on him and when he hit
• 1:24:31
  it it sure didn't sound from here that he hit
• 1:24:33
  it well enough to go over that fence. I'm sure
• 1:24:35
  he hit it well or it wouldn't have gone that
• 1:24:37
  far. I don't think he got a lot of help from
• 1:24:38
  the wind. indication this guy is not only big
• 1:24:41
  he really is strong I surprised myself when that
• 1:24:44
  ball jumped out because as you say Carl I didn't
• 1:24:47
  sound good when he hit it but it's gone now and
• 1:24:51
  the Indians lead three to two here in the fifth
• 1:24:53
  inning with two out this is Russ Nixon the catcher
• 1:24:58
  I might have been disappointed if we hadn't seen
• 1:25:00
  one home run here today the way the wind is blowing
• 1:25:03
  Trowbridge wouldn't have been disappointed Nixon
• 1:25:11
  hits one intellect. It's his first hit free trips
• 1:25:16
  Single of the opposite field off the bat of the
• 1:25:21
  Cleveland catcher The Indians, after scoring
• 1:26:01
  in the first inning and then losing their advantage,
• 1:26:03
  are again on top, 3 -2. Shebram watches it all
• 1:26:08
  the way, but there's no play. And it's strike
• 1:26:13
  two. Pitcher is due to lead off for the Athletics
• 1:26:20
  in the bottom of the... Good thing. No balls,
• 1:26:29
  two strikes. A high fly ball, the deep left.
• 1:26:32
  That ball is going to be trouble. And serve,
• 1:26:35
  can't get it. It's off the wall. Runs going to
• 1:26:37
  score. A double for power. Serve had a little
• 1:26:50
  more room out there in the outfield than he imagined.
• 1:26:54
  Leapfoot couldn't get to the ball. It's a double
• 1:26:55
  and an RBI on a nothing two pitch to Vic Power.
• 1:27:01
  Drives in the run. Nixon scored all the way from
• 1:27:04
  first base. Three runs in the inning making the
• 1:27:06
  score four to two. Power with a double goes to
• 1:27:09
  third on the throw to the plate. Here's the shortstop.
• 1:27:20
  Woody held with power on a third. Going to keep
• 1:27:24
  an eye on him. He's trying to steal Swalm. The
• 1:27:26
  play is out at home. on the top of the head as
• 1:28:07
  power was reaching with his hand. And the argument
• 1:28:09
  continues here. That ends the inning. Out trying
• 1:28:12
  to steal home. Three runs. On four hits. No errors
• 1:28:19
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• 1:28:21
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  cents, or the giant economy size, 98 cents. Temple
• 1:29:32
  started with a single. Kersall sacrificed and
• 1:29:35
  Vaughn hit a home run to put Cleveland ahead
• 1:29:37
  by the score of three to two. Then after Francona
• 1:29:41
  grounded out, Nixon's single and Power doubled
• 1:29:43
  him home. Power went to third on the play at
• 1:29:45
  the plate. This is Whitey Herzog batting for
• 1:30:03
  Trowbridge. Last of the fifth getting underway.
• 1:30:13
  Barry Ladman on the mound for the Indians. He's
• 1:30:16
  started and going all the way. George Brunet
• 1:30:22
  is in the bullpen for the A's. There's a foul
• 1:30:25
  off the end of the bat for strike two. Whitey
• 1:30:29
  Herzog the batter here. in the on deck circle.
• 1:30:43
  They thought they had a strikeout, but they didn't
• 1:30:45
  get the call. It's one and two. Herzog last year
• 1:30:50
  batted 293. Just in a few games, however. In
• 1:30:56
  the dirt, two and two. Power came after Chidi
• 1:31:02
  as he attempted to steal home with those spikes
• 1:31:03
  flying, jumped right on top of him. Chidi didn't
• 1:31:06
  tag him, but Power didn't get to the plate, and
• 1:31:08
  then Power reached for the plate, and Chidi tagged
• 1:31:10
  him on top of the head. Quite an argument when
• 1:31:12
  the inning was over. There's ball three. Three
• 1:31:15
  and two to the leadoff man here. It appeared
• 1:31:17
  that Power, who was out by some 10 or 12 feet,
• 1:31:21
  saw that he was going to be out after attempting
• 1:31:23
  to steal, and he tried to knock the underpinning
• 1:31:25
  out from under Harry Chidi, and he only spun
• 1:31:27
  off of him. Then the argument came because of
• 1:31:31
  Chidi in an attempt to tag, his attempt to get
• 1:31:34
  back to the plate. The umpire called him out.
• 1:31:51
  So maybe the A's have something going on. Last
• 1:31:54
  to the fifth the Indians lead four to two. Frank
• 1:31:59
  Conner makes the catch on a flat ball hit by
• 1:32:02
  Tuttle. Why not. Frank Conner and Kersall were
• 1:32:08
  all after that one. Now, the number two hitter
• 1:32:13
  in the lineup, the second baseman, with one for
• 1:32:16
  two so far in the ball game, Jerry Lumpy. Lumpy
• 1:32:20
  popped out, then single in the third. Kersall
• 1:32:23
  got it first base. The A's two runs down, they
• 1:32:26
  figure he's not gonna be running until Power
• 1:32:28
  is playing behind him down there, thus protecting
• 1:32:31
  the hole against this left -handed hitter. That's
• 1:32:36
  through the hole the other way. down at second
• 1:33:37
  base and lumpy at first with one out. Bauer pops
• 1:33:40
  it up short left center. First all on the run.
• 1:33:43
  Look at him come. He's there and has it. Runners
• 1:33:46
  get back two out. First off and cover that ground
• 1:33:50
  in the outfield. Came a long way for that one
• 1:33:53
  playing deep for Bauer. Now that puts things
• 1:34:01
  squarely up to the number four hitter in the
• 1:34:02
  athletics lineup. He's out at first. And there
• 1:34:10
  is the first baseman, Norm Sebring. It's a foul.
• 1:34:20
  Sebring walked in the second and quarter run,
• 1:34:22
  then grounded out. The Indians are on top, 4
• 1:34:25
  -2, and we're in the bottom of the fifth, 2 on,
• 1:34:26
  2 up. I've been taking a little time. He's in
• 1:34:41
  a bit of a jam here. This is the second time
• 1:34:45
  that Grant, when we showed you in the bullpen,
• 1:34:47
  has been warming up. One and one. Tom Seaborn,
• 1:34:56
  a St. Louis boy. Last year with the Yankees,
• 1:35:02
  he had 11 homers. 53 RBI is about at 271. A good
• 1:35:09
  fastball on the corner. Now Seaborn has to be
• 1:35:14
  cutting away up there. He's in the hole one and
• 1:35:16
  two. That man had plenty on that one. I think
• 1:35:22
  we spoke earlier Jack about pitching inside to
• 1:35:25
  some of these left handers and there was a good
• 1:35:26
  example. Striding in and taking the pitch but
• 1:35:29
  it just about the corner. One ball two strikes
• 1:35:33
  two on two out. This is a wild now. Two on, two
• 1:35:43
  out, two balls, two strikes. Four to two of the
• 1:35:47
  score. Get a bunch of human beings down there
• 1:37:07
  playing with a baseball and look out. One and
• 1:37:13
  one. Do bomb serve. Serve single. Score a run
• 1:37:16
  in the second and then ground it out. There's
• 1:37:18
  Seaborn. And there we have Lumpy. one ball two
• 1:37:36
  strikes only had seven in the hall and then he
• 1:37:38
  got him and then whoops you know that run of
• 1:37:43
  course will be an unearned run but uh or any
• 1:37:45
  other runs that score this inning will be unearned
• 1:37:48
  they're still just as big on the scoreboard indians
• 1:37:52
  lead by one At the end of the fifth inning is
• 1:38:09
  Cleveland 4, Kansas City 3. two Cincinnati and
• 1:39:11
  Philadelphia in the eighth. It's Pittsburgh five
• 1:39:15
  and Milwaukee four. Look at that San Francisco.
• 1:39:18
  Jack Sanford won that one eighteen runs. Two
• 1:39:21
  runs for Chicago. Drop was a loser. He'd like
• 1:39:24
  to spread those over the season I bet. Los Angeles
• 1:39:26
  and St. Louis. St. Louis is forced to hit now
• 1:39:29
  on the sixth inning eight to five. We're ready
• 1:39:31
  to go here in the top of the sixth inning. Kansas
• 1:39:37
  City. Brunette is on the mound, B -R -U -N -E
• 1:39:43
  -T, George Brunette. Those American League games
• 1:39:46
  are all over. I gave you those scores earlier,
• 1:39:47
  but in case you weren't with us, it was Detroit
• 1:39:50
  6, the White Sox 2, Boston 8, Washington 3, the
• 1:39:55
  Yankees 3, Baltimore 2. So the Tigers are still
• 1:39:59
  undefeated. They're 4 -0. George Brunette is
• 1:40:02
  the third Kansas City pitcher. Started with Dick
• 1:40:09
  Hall. and then Bob Trowbridge in the first in
• 1:40:11
  the sixth that's Brunette and what he held will
• 1:40:13
  lead off. I hope you're enjoying the action in
• 1:40:24
  this one. We've had quite a bit of it at municipal
• 1:40:26
  stadium in Kansas City. Gillette sending you
• 1:40:29
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• 1:40:35
  and the San Francisco Giants from Los Angeles.
• 1:40:39
  Jack Buck. Karl Erskine here. We're enjoying
• 1:40:41
  the ballgame along with it. Chidi gets together
• 1:40:44
  with the pitcher on the signs. And turn the lights
• 1:40:49
  on here. An indication of the sort of day we're
• 1:40:53
  having. We had sunshine for just a couple of
• 1:40:55
  minutes or so and then only part of the field.
• 1:41:00
  What he held is 0 for 2. Not too good a start
• 1:41:06
  for the season. 2 out of 13. He underwent a couple
• 1:41:08
  of operations that really frightened him but
• 1:41:14
  strike. Thought for a while that Woody might
• 1:41:22
  have cancer. Fortunately it was not true. He
• 1:41:28
  held back. It's 1 and 1. 4 to 3 the score on
• 1:41:32
  this one. The Indians about hit the athletics
• 1:41:35
  nine to four. The Indians have made the only
• 1:41:37
  error. When you consider that run the scored
• 1:41:40
  on the air plus the run the scored on the pass
• 1:41:42
  ball the A's have scored some pretty cheap markers
• 1:41:44
  but they do count. He caught that one in the
• 1:41:46
  right field. Hank Bauer should make the catch.
• 1:41:53
  What he held applies to Hank Bauer. It's not
• 1:41:59
  the first five ball that Mr. Bauer has caught.
• 1:42:04
  He's not used to that much room out there however.
• 1:42:08
  No. First thing he sees in Yankee Stadium used
• 1:42:11
  to see people. Here's Bubba Phillips. One for
• 1:42:15
  two in this game a single and a strikeout. Remember
• 1:42:19
  the last time out there he went for three bad
• 1:42:22
  balls in the fan. Didn't go for this one. Got
• 1:42:26
  a single in the second inning. He's only hit
• 1:42:28
  for the season so far. He's one for ten. Ball
• 1:42:32
  two. He is bringing in the left hander here to
• 1:42:36
  see what they can do about stopping the power
• 1:42:38
  hitting of Bond, Frank Cota, and Nixon. One out,
• 1:42:44
  nobody out. Third baseman, Johnson. Save! He
• 1:42:55
  put everything he had on it, but he couldn't
• 1:42:57
  get Bubba Phillips. He gets his second hit of
• 1:42:59
  the ballgame. He had to wait for that high bouncing
• 1:43:05
  ball to come down. He knew he was going to have
• 1:43:07
  trouble, so he cranked up and fired as hard as
• 1:43:09
  he could and quickly as he could. Couldn't flag
• 1:43:12
  down Phillips. He's on a first with one out.
• 1:43:15
  And the pitcher is coming up. One man gone here.
• 1:43:24
  You can look for most anything in this situation.
• 1:43:26
  This is not simple. This is very Latin. It's
• 1:43:31
  not uncommon to see a pitcher bunt in this situation,
• 1:43:33
  Jack, because of a fellow like Temple coming
• 1:43:35
  out behind him, even though there's one out.
• 1:43:38
  Johnson's even with a bag at third base, protecting
• 1:43:41
  against the bunt. The base hit by Phillips was
• 1:43:44
  number 10 for the Indians. Popped it in the air,
• 1:43:52
  he grabs it, nobody covering. Phillips got back
• 1:43:57
  in time as Lumpy was unable to get over there.
• 1:44:00
  So Brunette wisely held the ball. Good wood on
• 1:44:07
  that one. Swung at that one he had a good marine
• 1:44:10
  line drive base hit. I'm sure he was trying to
• 1:44:14
  make that bunt good out in front of the plate.
• 1:44:16
  Made sure he bunted it fair and with something
• 1:44:18
  on it and he did. Here's a fellow who has two
• 1:44:23
  hits in the ballgame Johnny Temple. He has two
• 1:44:25
  for three. A double and a single and he scored
• 1:44:30
  twice. Phillips on at first two out. There's
• 1:44:35
  a bot and that's a good one. Going to have trouble
• 1:44:37
  throwing them out. Low throw. Safe. Nice play
• 1:44:39
  by Sieber. Base hit by Temple his third. Well
• 1:44:49
  that's smart baseball by Temple keeping the inning
• 1:44:51
  going. No sense a little fellow like him pumping
• 1:44:53
  away for the fence. First all here has more power
• 1:44:57
  and then you get around it. a bond who will follow
• 1:45:00
  him. So Temple collects his third hit of the
• 1:45:03
  day. Here's personal. You know whereas there
• 1:45:07
  are certain patterns in baseball that are followed
• 1:45:09
  because of a percentage. Again you take nothing
• 1:45:13
  for granted because just because of a two outs.
• 1:45:16
  No reason in the world why I felt like Temple
• 1:45:18
  couldn't lay one down and he did. There are two
• 1:45:22
  men out here foul tip. Pierce all has two for
• 1:45:29
  two. Both singles. He sacrificed his last time
• 1:45:31
  up. Temple's on it first. Bubba Phillips is on
• 1:45:35
  it second base. Indians trying to score more.
• 1:45:39
  They lead four to three here in the sixth inning.
• 1:45:46
  Foul on the screen. Strike two. The net's in
• 1:45:53
  trouble and he hasn't been wrapped for a solid
• 1:45:55
  hit yet. No balls two strikes. Base hit. Let's
• 1:46:19
  watch for the play at the plate. Bauer juggles
• 1:46:21
  the ball. The run scores. Temple goes to third.
• 1:46:25
  Parasols third hit. Makes the score five to three.
• 1:46:29
  The first well hit ball off of Braden in this
• 1:46:32
  inning. Temple went from first to third. As Phillips
• 1:46:36
  scored we anticipated a play at the plate but
• 1:46:38
  Bauer juggled the ball. No error charged however.
• 1:46:43
  He may not have had a chance at the plate because
• 1:46:45
  of a hop the ball took on the last bounce. He
• 1:46:48
  had to stop play it up off the middle of his
• 1:46:50
  chest and even had a feel of the ball clean.
• 1:46:53
  I doubt that he could have thrown home. Bell
• 1:46:59
  again. Yeah this guy homered his last time. It
• 1:47:04
  went right out to the pitcher. Bond is thrown
• 1:47:10
  out by Brunette. One run. Three hits. No errors.
• 1:47:16
  Two men left. So, at the end of five and a half
• 1:47:19
  innings, the score is Cleveland five, Kansas
• 1:47:22
  City three. Now, have you taken my razor again?
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  and travel case only 195 Well Barry Lampman has
• 1:48:26
  gone five having allowed only four hits and he
• 1:48:29
  needs in the ballgame five to three Walter Bond
• 1:48:39
  has come in from right field to get the sunglasses
• 1:48:45
  and we'll soon be ready to go in the bottom of
• 1:48:47
  the sixth game in philadelphia jack has gone
• 1:48:51
  into the 12th inning got a real battle over there
• 1:48:53
  going on between cal mcclish and uh feral is
• 1:48:56
  in the ball game now 12th innings two to two
• 1:48:58
  since now in philadelphia evidently the cardinal
• 1:49:05
  game is over and they defeated the dodgers nine
• 1:49:06
  to five i didn't want to mention that jack Well,
• 1:49:12
  here's Harry Chidi to see what he can do about
• 1:49:14
  starting something for the A's. He has a single
• 1:49:16
  out of two trips and an RBI. Kansas City catch
• 1:49:20
  it. Barry Lappman is the pitcher. shortstop what
• 1:50:24
  he held. Johnson is over to having walked once
• 1:50:30
  in the game. One out here in the bottom of the
• 1:50:34
  sixth. He's got that run back in a hurry didn't
• 1:50:36
  it. It's five to four. Guy like Chidi he doesn't
• 1:50:42
  have a always the healthiest batting average
• 1:50:44
  but as strong as he is in a game like this. Really
• 1:50:48
  be dangerous. Ken Hamlin. up and trying for the
• 1:51:41
  third time. One and one now. Burnett is up for
• 1:51:46
  his first time in the game. Two home runs in
• 1:51:48
  the setting ties the game. Five all. You know
• 1:52:44
  fans wonder why they don't play the old bunt
• 1:52:46
  for one run these days but there's a good example.
• 1:52:49
  When any man in a lineup can sock that ball over
• 1:52:51
  the fence you don't give up an out for anybody.
• 1:53:14
  The base is empty. Cheney and Hamlin have homered
• 1:53:17
  in this inning. One and one. Two out. Nobody
• 1:53:33
  on. The 1 -1. Two hits, no errors, nobody left.
• 1:53:47
  At the end of sixth, Indians five, Athletics
• 1:53:50
  five. It's time now for our stations to identify
• 1:53:53
  themselves. We pause for station identification.
• 1:53:58
  Bart Maverick finds jail a heaven on earth. Enjoy
• 1:54:00
  his humorous adventures tomorrow night on the
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  ABC television network. Now it's the seventh
• 1:54:07
  inning here at Kansas City in the ball game that
• 1:54:09
  Gillette is bringing you. Score tied 5 -0 between
• 1:54:11
  Cleveland and Kansas City. In the American League
• 1:54:14
  and the other games. There they are. Detroit
• 1:54:18
  6, Chicago 2, Boston 8, Washington 3, Yankees
• 1:54:22
  3, Baltimore 2. This ballgame now belongs to
• 1:54:30
  Brunette to win or lose. See battles with Latman.
• 1:54:35
  Oliver Grant, whom we showed you earlier, is
• 1:54:36
  still throwing in the bullpen. Pito Francona
• 1:54:48
  leading off here in the seventh inning. I made
• 1:54:54
  an observation then he killed Jack and didn't
• 1:54:56
  finish it. This fellow's got a good fastball
• 1:54:59
  compared to throw bridge. He was throwing sinker
• 1:55:02
  balls and sliders for the most part. Francona
• 1:55:05
  hits one past the pitcher. Lumpy. Gary Lumpy
• 1:55:12
  throws out Francona who is now 0 for 2 having
• 1:55:15
  walked twice. One out here in the top of the
• 1:55:19
  seventh inning. The A's trail one to nothing.
• 1:55:22
  They lead in the second inning two to one. Then
• 1:55:24
  they trail four to two. Four to three. Five to
• 1:55:28
  three. Then they tied it with those two homers.
• 1:55:33
  The attention brings the field attendance today
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  9 ,659. 9659. 9 ,659 in attendance here. This
• 1:55:43
  is Russ Nixon. That's ball one. Come be with
• 1:55:46
  us next week. Certainly hope that you will be.
• 1:55:49
  Gillette will be bringing you big league baseball
• 1:55:51
  next Saturday at the same time. The Dodgers and
• 1:55:54
  the Giants from Los Angeles. Nixon hits it foul
• 1:55:58
  and it's one and one. Better lash down the TV
• 1:56:00
  sets next week, Jeff. Yeah. Those two ball clubs
• 1:56:04
  get together and then ballpark. A lot of things
• 1:56:07
  will be happening. Nixon here has a single lot
• 1:56:13
  of three trips. It's going to run. They had a
• 1:56:30
  glimpse of Dick Power who's in the on deck circle.
• 1:56:33
  That's Powell in the seats and that's on the
• 1:56:35
  screen. Two and two. One out and nobody on here
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• 1:59:14
  the bottom of the seventh inning and the fans
• 1:59:15
  here in Kansas City are standing for the hometown
• 1:59:18
  stretch. We have a new pitcher for the Cleveland
• 1:59:20
  Indians. The second heart of the game. He takes
• 1:59:26
  over for Barry Matlin. This is his second game.
• 1:59:32
  He is 0 and 1. And leading off will be the second
• 1:59:49
  baseman who was so busy in that last half. Jerry
• 1:59:52
  Lumpy. singles out of three trips. We're looking
• 2:00:01
  at another guy who's been really hum that P.
• 2:00:04
  Jerry Lump. To be followed by Bauer and Seaborn
• 2:00:07
  as the A's try to break the deadlock here in
• 2:00:09
  the seventh inning. Grant was 10 and 7 last year.
• 2:00:23
  This ballgame belongs to Grant and Brunette right
• 2:00:25
  at the moment. Tie five and five. The count is
• 2:00:29
  one and one. feel straight away from. I say these
• 2:02:54
  fans are in good voice here today. Hear the reaction
• 2:02:57
  to this intentional pass. This is one of the
• 2:02:59
  reasons that baseball officials or baseball owners
• 2:03:03
  decided rules committee decided to leave the
• 2:03:06
  intentional pass in on four pitches rather than
• 2:03:08
  just an automatic trip to the plate to the first
• 2:03:12
  base. It always gets some reaction. Walker Cooper
• 2:03:15
  is the coach. This is a good idea here. They
• 2:03:33
  check signs quite often with a man on second.
• 2:03:36
  Realize the man on second can also see those
• 2:03:38
  finger signs with a catcher just as well as a
• 2:03:40
  pitcher. And you can imagine they signed are
• 2:03:43
  a little more complicated. Good to go out and
• 2:03:46
  check occasionally and make sure someone didn't
• 2:03:48
  cross up. of Bob serve in the bottom of the seventh
• 2:03:55
  score tied by ball. On a second base is lumpy.
• 2:04:12
  Seeburn the runner at first. Ball breaking down
• 2:04:21
  and also appeared to be. Off the plate outside.
• 2:04:25
  Serve up there wants to get a piece of that ball
• 2:04:26
  he sees all those RBI's out in front of him there.
• 2:04:31
  On to the count. Serve is the batter Chidi will
• 2:04:35
  be next. If they don't get the double play. I
• 2:04:42
  feel deep in. straight away in the infield back
• 2:04:53
  looking for two. Double football. Out there.
• 2:04:59
  That's all. Served court one right at the shortstop.
• 2:05:03
  Held to Temple to power. No runs. One hit. No
• 2:05:06
  errors. One left. And at the end of seven still
• 2:05:09
  tied. The Indians five and the Athletics five.
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  Brunette. Score tied, five all. Ball one. Woody
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  is 0 -3 in the ball game. We've got a fellow
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  with pretty good power batting in the number
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  seven spot. 29 homers last year, there's ball
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  two. Brunette had been up before. Last year he
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  was at Portland where he won five and lost 13.
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  Ball three. It's the first appearance of the
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  year for Brunette. All four. Well that's no way
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  to start the A -thing. As far as the athletics
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  are concerned. Burnett came on in the sixth inning.
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  Gave up a run, then breezed through the seventh.
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  Now starts off the eighth by giving a free pass.
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  Here's Bubba Phillips. Bunch foul. He has single
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  twice out of three trips. And a bunt again. The
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  play is to first base. Whoops. Make one sure
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  they say and Harry Cheney the catcher called
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  the play. You can hear him calling from up here.
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  We're going to have a pinch hitter. Harvey Kane
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  is coming to the plate. Philip sacrifice held
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  his down a second with one out. Here's the power
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  who is involved in that controversial trade.
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  Call the veto for Harvey Keane. I see he's got
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  Rocky's old number down there. So they just swapped
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  uniforms, Jack. That's what happens in the scheme
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  of baseball. Time breaking right on the second.
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  They're going to walk Keane. The A's have a right
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  hander warming up in their bullpen and the Indians
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  have the right handed batting Johnny Temple coming
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  up so we might see some further action here.
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  It's a good bet we'll see a runner for Keane
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  also with a bad leg who will be on first base.
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  So there's the intentional walk. Keane is on
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  at first. He's immediately relieved by a pinch
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  runner. Runner's on at first and second. Carol
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  Hardy is the pinch runner. Johnny Temple the
• 2:09:41
  batter. And Burnett stays in. Temple has had
• 2:09:44
  two singles and a double. First and second one
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  out. They both got there with walks. We're in
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  the eighth and tied five to five. The A's really
• 2:09:53
  need the double play. Temple needs the base hit.
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  Right back here. The lights have been turned
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  on here in Kansas City. So Mike Lee will be the
• 2:10:16
  third Cleveland hurler. Of the day and the bottom
• 2:10:19
  of the. And just missed on that one. One and
• 2:10:27
  one. See the first baseman playing behind the
• 2:10:38
  runner Carol Hardy at first. There's Bubba Phillips
• 2:10:41
  down at second base. Or rather would he help.
• 2:10:45
  A little sacrifice in the center. Two balls and
• 2:10:52
  a strike. Temple doesn't strike out very often
• 2:10:57
  as we told you. And also he's a tough man to
• 2:10:59
  double up. They bunched John through the middle.
• 2:11:06
  That's where he hits usually. Hits the right
• 2:11:08
  field and up through the middle. You can see
• 2:11:10
  the two positions short and second there on your
• 2:11:12
  picture that they're squeezed in towards second
• 2:11:14
  base. Two balls and a strike they count. He held
• 2:11:22
  up. Three and one. Three and one the count. Temple
• 2:11:28
  is looking down at the third base coach Joe Joe
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  White. Who in turn was looking into the dugout
• 2:11:32
  from then into Joe Gordon. Three balls and a
• 2:11:46
  strike. Think he'll be swinging. The A's have
• 2:12:05
  a right hander in the bullpen. This fellow is
• 2:12:11
  also very difficult to double up any pair solve
• 2:12:14
  and run. Rob Elliott makes no move here in the
• 2:12:19
  eighth inning bases loaded one out scored time
• 2:12:21
  five all. back down a piece of paper. He's really
• 2:12:31
  need to double play at first all needs at least
• 2:12:33
  the fly ball. Scored tied five and five. All
• 2:12:42
  the other baseball is over. And everybody else
• 2:12:47
  played this afternoon. That could use a strikeout.
• 2:12:55
  There's a high pop up. The infield fire rule
• 2:12:57
  applies. The batter is out. The bases will still
• 2:12:59
  be loaded with two men out. The second baseman
• 2:13:01
  makes the catch. Well there's a big one. Here's
• 2:13:09
  all really angry as you can see. Popped out to
• 2:13:11
  lumpy and it puts it up. To the Indian rookie.
• 2:13:18
  The right fielder Walter Bond. There's Temple
• 2:13:21
  on a first base. Carol Hardy running for key
• 2:13:26
  to bat it for the pitcher on its second and what
• 2:13:28
  he held on at third. Two men out a stunning score
• 2:13:31
  tied by a ball and here is bond who has a homer
• 2:13:33
  and a single out of four trips. That got a real
• 2:13:43
  big out when he got Pierce Hall to pop up. No
• 2:13:48
  more throwing situation in baseball and bases
• 2:13:51
  loaded to. You're speaking of a spectator Jack
• 2:13:54
  not a pitcher, right? Go garden comes hustling
• 2:14:00
  out the dugout to claim a block on the part of
• 2:14:03
  the pitcher George Brunette one thing about it.
• 2:14:22
  Gordon is probably accomplishing something even
• 2:14:25
  though he is going to lose the argument here
• 2:14:27
  and that would be to try to upset the pitcher.
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  Not only Gordon came up keen and about four other
• 2:14:34
  players all simultaneously came off of that bench
• 2:14:37
  when they thought they detected a ball to the
• 2:14:42
  second baseman. Here's Cedric Adams, syndicated
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  Bottom of the eighth now on the athletics. We're
• 2:15:59
  given a life when they get out of that and that
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  was equal to the occasion. Last time up and the
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  fans are yelling for a little more. The Kansas
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  City catcher. A new pitcher is on the mound for
• 2:16:20
  the Cleveland club. He follows their starter
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  Barry Lattman and their first relief man Mudcat
• 2:16:28
  Grant. It's a big ball six five Mike Lee. Oh
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  no excuse me. Change uniforms as often happens
• 2:16:42
  at this time of year. Paul Paul on our part meant
• 2:16:46
  too much about it because just didn't recognize
• 2:16:48
  the fellow Bob Grim is the pitcher. Former member
• 2:16:51
  of the athletics and of course of the Yankees
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  Bob Grim. These days you can't even tell the
• 2:16:58
  players with a scorecard Jack. You're right.
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  Last of the eighth. Grimm pitching to T .D. Ball.
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  We're in the eighth. Score tied 5 -0. So, Jim
• 2:17:25
  Grant, who was in the game, pitched only one
• 2:17:27
  inning. Wasn't scored a five. Here's the one
• 2:17:36
  -one. Left center. On the run is Prancota. He
• 2:17:40
  gets it. Chitty flies to Prancota. Remember,
• 2:17:47
  Tito was the one who dropped the fly ball back
• 2:17:50
  in the fifth inning. He squeezed that one. One
• 2:17:55
  out and here's the. Athletics third baseman.
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  Been on base once with a walk he's over to. Bob.
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  Johnson. Grim gets a head on him. It's been a
• 2:18:17
  busy game. A lot of hits. Fall for the Indians.
• 2:18:28
  Seven for the A's. One out, nobody on. One and
• 2:18:38
  one to count. Foul out of play. thousand six
• 2:18:53
  hundred and fifty nine in the ballgame today.
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  Here's the one to get down the third baseline
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  foul. Remains the same. I would have been troubled
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  if Steve there. Walker Cooper talking to Johnson.
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  game Join us, will you please? Struck him out
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  So Grim retires the first two men Ken Hamlin
• 2:19:52
  here a homer his last time up and tied the game
• 2:19:54
  is only hit. And three trips he's the Kansas
• 2:19:57
  City shortstop. Grim gets ahead here to. And
• 2:20:04
  as a little fellow at five ten one hundred and
• 2:20:06
  sixty eight. Two out and the base is empty. The
• 2:20:17
  A's have hit five home runs this year. And all
• 2:20:20
  of them have come with the bases empty. Here's
• 2:20:29
  the one -one. Score tied five to five. Last of
• 2:20:46
  the eight. Foul. Tonto. Grim's getting the fastball
• 2:20:53
  over. Getting him out with the fastball and wasting
• 2:20:55
  the curve, it appears. I first saw this fella.
• 2:21:01
  He was really a hard thrower. And of course,
• 2:21:04
  since then, he's developed a good slider and
• 2:21:06
  a good curve. Polk out now. That's a pattern
• 2:21:14
  of a young pitcher, Jack. They came in on the
• 2:21:16
  cover of the leg. Good strong arm. big strong
• 2:21:18
  back just rare back and throw and they learn
• 2:21:21
  all these other things. So Ken Hamlin gets a
• 2:21:30
  base on ball there's a tie breaking run and let's
• 2:21:33
  see what the A's do. Pitchers due to bat George
• 2:21:38
  Brunette. No one has come out yet. have a pinch
• 2:21:48
  hitter. A pinch hitter for George Burnett will
• 2:22:03
  bring on yet another Kansas City pitcher in the
• 2:22:05
  ninth inning. In the batter here is Marv Thornberry.
• 2:22:28
  Two out, run around first. It's been a rather
• 2:22:44
  long game, two and a half hours right now. But
• 2:22:47
  a lot of excitement in this 5 -5 contest. Graham
• 2:23:03
  is way out in front. See the first baseman, Power,
• 2:23:07
  holding Hamlin close. No balls, two strikes on
• 2:23:10
  the batter, Throneberry. One and two. Graham
• 2:23:22
  and Throneberry were teammates at one time. Here's
• 2:23:39
  the one and two. Brownberry down on strikes.
• 2:23:42
  Grimm got two strikeouts in that inning. No runs,
• 2:23:44
  no hits, no errors, one left. And so at the end
• 2:23:46
  of the eighth inning, the score is Indians five,
• 2:23:49
  Athletics five. And now it's the ninth inning
• 2:24:34
  of the ballgame. baseball is over Detroit 6 Chicago
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  2 Boston 8 Washington 3 Yankees 3 Baltimore 2
• 2:24:47
  and in the National League all of those ballgames
• 2:24:51
  are over Philadelphia defeated Cincinnati 3 to
• 2:24:53
  2 Pittsburgh knocked off the Braves 5 to 4 the
• 2:24:57
  Giants buried the Cubs 18 to 2 and the Cardinals
• 2:25:00
  won their third in a row taking the Dodgers 9
• 2:25:03
  to 5. A new pitcher for the Athletics. Dick Hall
• 2:25:12
  started. Trowbridge came out in the first inning.
• 2:25:15
  Brunette in the sixth inning. And now it's Marty
• 2:25:20
  Coutina. Marty Coutina. He'll be facing the big
• 2:25:30
  hitters on the Cleveland club. So we're in the
• 2:25:36
  ninth but nothing has been settled. Still tied
• 2:25:38
  five and five. Bettina has appeared in one game.
• 2:25:43
  Having pitched one and eight. Formerly the property
• 2:25:51
  to the Cardinals. Pitched only seven innings
• 2:25:54
  for the A's last year. Spent most of his time
• 2:25:56
  at Portland where he won 14 and lost 10. Here's
• 2:26:00
  Tito Francona to start it off in the ninth inning.
• 2:26:02
  He walked twice and lumpy threw him out twice
• 2:26:05
  from second base. Curveball ball one. Shot foul.
• 2:26:25
  One and one. The fourth Kansas City Huller in
• 2:26:29
  the ballgame. Cleveland meanwhile he goes three.
• 2:26:36
  He started laughing and ran in the seventh Grim
• 2:26:40
  in the eighth and was still in a foul out of
• 2:26:44
  play. And Francona is in the hole one and two.
• 2:27:05
  out the one to pitch. They said to left a single
• 2:27:10
  for Frank Conner to left. His first hit third
• 2:27:16
  time he's been on base. And there is the lead
• 2:27:19
  run. Stroke that nicely to the opposite field.
• 2:27:24
  Well they said by the book that's where you're
• 2:27:25
  supposed to hit a curve ball and I think folks
• 2:27:27
  at home on their screen could see that that pitch
• 2:27:30
  was a curve ball. He laid it in the left field
• 2:27:32
  for a base hit. Now it's Russ Nixon the catcher.
• 2:27:38
  Who has a single out of four trips. And has going
• 2:27:42
  around. Time called. Francona was breaking with
• 2:27:49
  the pitch but time had been called. Interesting
• 2:27:56
  to see what happens on this play we'll keep an
• 2:27:58
  eye on the base runner for your Seaborn holding
• 2:28:00
  him close. Popped up. Third baseman wants it.
• 2:28:10
  Now the shortstop, Hamlin. Nixon pops out to
• 2:28:16
  the shortstop. And here's the Kansas City favorite
• 2:28:20
  coming. J .D. talking to Tina. Run around first
• 2:29:18
  to be looking forward to the. Ninth inning for
• 2:29:22
  the A's it's due to be at the top of the order.
• 2:29:24
  Tuttle lumpy and bowler. Might have been a pitch
• 2:29:33
  out. Tina has a. unusual style he steps almost
• 2:29:39
  as a crossfire sidearmor but his his right arm
• 2:29:43
  comes over the top. He's keeping a real good
• 2:29:48
  eye on Frank Conan. If held here it keeps the
• 2:29:56
  inning going. Love of Phillips will be the batter.
• 2:30:00
  Two men out here in the top of the ninth. situation
• 2:30:06
  like this you oftentimes see them turn the hitter
• 2:30:09
  loose on a three nothing pitch. Run around first
• 2:30:16
  to outscored tied 5 all in the ninth ball for.
• 2:30:23
  Francona goes to second. The batter is due to
• 2:30:29
  be Phillips. We're going to have a pinch hitter
• 2:30:32
  I believe. Bob Hale is going to come out and
• 2:30:45
  that. Phillips had gone two for three in the
• 2:30:53
  game. Bob Hale an infielder formerly with Baltimore.
• 2:31:01
  Left handed batter comes out to hit. So a single
• 2:31:03
  and a walk is put the. Athletics in trouble foul
• 2:31:07
  out of play. Two on and two out. The Indians
• 2:31:21
  have left quite a few stranded in the ballgame.
• 2:31:23
  They've left a total of ten men on base. Curveball.
• 2:31:31
  Coutinho should throw them out. ninth inning
• 2:31:47
  the score is still tied Indians five athletics
• 2:31:50
  by. The left range of big league baseball every
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  Saturday. Mr Loffa yeah it's almost seven oh
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  thank you I'll be right there. But Frank there's
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  nothing to worry about I'm mining the store good
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  evening Peter well good evening welcome to the
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  the infield. Bob Grimm has this ball game to
• 2:33:00
  hang onto. It's tied 5 -5. The A's looking for
• 2:33:03
  their second in a row over Cleveland. Cleveland
• 2:33:06
  trying to win their first of the year and here's
• 2:33:07
  the top of the order, the center fielder Bill
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  Tuttle. George Strickland is the third baseman
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  now for Cleveland. There's the base hit. Makes
• 2:33:20
  a wide turn. A single for Cuddle. That's the
• 2:33:24
  first time he's been on base and the A's fans
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  say it couldn't have happened at a better time.
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  Bill Cuddle parked one through the middle. only
• 2:33:37
  hit number eight for the A's have been out hit
• 2:33:39
  13 to 8. They could win it right here. Here is
• 2:33:42
  lumpy and of course they'll be looking for the
• 2:33:44
  button. Good fun. You'll be out at first. Seeing
• 2:33:55
  a lot of good sacrificing in the game today.
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  They go back to that one run brand of baseball.
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  Hank Bauer, who is already considered the mayor
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  of Kansas City, could really be a popular guy
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  right here. Now the Indians have a couple of
• 2:34:20
  choices to make. They have first base open. They
• 2:34:21
  could pitch to Bauer and walk Sievern. Or they
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  could walk Bauer and bring in left handed or
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  pitch to Sievern. All of those things are going
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  to be discussed right now on the mound between
• 2:34:33
  Gordon number 35, catcher Nixon and the pitcher
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  Bob Grimm. He's in trouble right here. In a pitch
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  to our base not going to get this time we can
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  fly and power the batter. He's all for three
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  he struck out twice. Seaborn is due to that next.
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  To repeat, Bill Tuttle, at whom you're looking
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  now, can really run. by the score of six to five.
• 2:36:09
  We've driven the hosing cover, and Marty Kutsana
• 2:36:12
  getting the win in the ball game. The final score,
• 2:36:15
  the Athletics six and the Indians five.