The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1950-07-13
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By DOUG STEWART

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See Keeping Up With The
Braves" page 6, for the Interstate
League standings, postponed games,
schedule for the week, double plays,
and a review of the Braves games
of the past week, including the box
score of Saturday nights game with
Lancaster.
Rufus Edwards, general manager
of the Hagerstown Baseball Club, has
announced that tonight Thursday,
in appreciation of the fine support
given the Braves by the fans, will be
Fans Appreciation Night" with a
world of valuable prizes being
awarded the fans by the manage
ment, during the game.
Edwards also announced the fol-
lowing changes in the Braves ros-
ter:
Heinbaugh and Freund have both
been placed on the suspended list,
due to sickness; Astbury has been
placed on the inactive list, and Casey
has been given his outright release.
Replacing them are: Ralph Beard,
first baseman, who is owned by Ha-
gerstown; Ed Milecevich, shortstop,
who has been assigned to Hagers-
town by Boston; Jack Brench, a
righthand pitcher, and Rudy Folbert,
an outfielder, both of whom have
been optioned to Hagerstown by
Hartford.
Milicevich and Folbert broke into
the lineup on the Braves recent
road trip; Beard took over first base
in Tuesdays game with Allentown.
and Brench was scheduled to pitch
one of the double header games last
night, with Al Bennett going to the
mound in the other
In my book Pottenger was robbed
of two-base hit and two RIBS in
the seventh inning of Tuesday nights
game with Allentown when he
hit ball to short that caromed off
Kopenhaver's shin and went clear
out to rightfeld, that was scored by
the official scorer as a two base error.
Through the courtesy of the man
ager of the Maryland Hotel had the
pleasure of seeing the All-Star game
on Tuesday afternoon, via television,
and what game it was.
I saw the smuggling American
leaguers out-slugged by their Ma
tional League opponents; the first
extra inning All-Star game, and
some of the finest pitching in all the
years l have been following baseball. |
l saw i believe for the first time
in an All-Star game - a colored bat
ter, Larry Dolby, facing a colored
pitcher, Don Newcombe, with a col |
ored catcher, Roy Campanella, be-
hind the plate.
I saw Ted Williams and Larry |
Dolby make sensational catches in
the outfield, only to have both of
them put in the shade by Andy PAT
kos miraculous catch as he smashed
into the scoreboard.
| saw the American League get a
man on third base with none out.
only to have Newcombe retire the
side without run, and 1 also saw |
Larry Jansen, of the New York
Giants, retire the heavy-hitting
American League batters in order
IN three innings, getting six of them
on strike outs.
| saw Konstanty, that great relief
pitcher of the Phillies, retire the
side in order in the one inning he
pitched, and Ewell ''The Whip"
Blackwell end the game by forcing
Joe DiMaggio to hit into double t
play.
And finally, saw Ralph Kiner, the
smuggling outfelder of the Pittsburgh
Pirates, tie the game at 3-3 in the
top half of the ninth, with a ire
mendous home run, and Red Scho-
endlenst, the st. Louis Cards second i
baseman, win the game in the TOP
half of the fourteenth, with another
four-bagger. The final score
rrrnc a Il,