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Who is known simply as 'The Lip'?
Leo Ernest Durocher.
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Bob is one of the biggest men in baseball, and has the strength and savvy to overpower a batter. He's a mighty good pitcher, and if he had had a stronger hitting team behind him, he could have won more games. He lost 20 in 1950, while winning 13, but the record could have been reversed. Began in 1947 with Des Moines, after 8 games with them he finished the season with Nashville. Came to Cubs in 1948.
Lefty Gomez, one of the greatest of modern left-handed pitchers, started pitching for the New York Yankees in 1931, when they acquired him from the St. Paul Club of the American Association. During the first year with the Yankees, he pitched in 40 games, winning 21 and losing only 9, for an earned run average of 2.63. Two years later he led the American League pitchers in strikeouts with 163. In 1934 he not only topped the league in strikeouts with 158, but pitched the greatest number of innings, 282, won the greatest number of games, 26, had the best percentage, .839, and had the lowest earned run-average, 2.33. In 1937 he again won the greatest number of games in the American League; was again the strikeout king and had the lowest earned run average. He also holds the major league pitching record for World Series victories, with 6 wins against no defeats. His nine-year major-league average shows 153 games won, with 81 lost and 1235 strikeouts.
Clifford C. Cravath, outfielder of the Philadelphia Nationals, was born at San Diego, Cal., on March 23, 1882. He jumped from his work as a telegraph operator into the Pacific Coast League at Los Angeles in 1903. In the fall of 1907 he was purchased by the Boston American League Club. He failed to make good in the spring of 1908, and was shifted to Chicago and then Washington in the American League. In the middle of the 1908 season he was sold to Minneapolis of the American Association. The Philadelphia Nationals purchased him at the close of the 1911 season for $4000.
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