Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-06

Each Of ; Top Clubs
Provides 7 Pitchers;
1urley Also Named
BY The Asseeie.ed Pres.

CHICAGO. July s. Casey
Stengel Of the Yankees. who will
manage the American League
team in the annual All-Star
Game at Cleveland July IS,
named eight pitchers for the
battle today.
Only one. Whitley Ford Of his
own Yankees, is a lefthander.
The others are Mike Garcia
and Bob Lemon of Cleveland.
Bob Keegan and Virgil Trucks
of the White Sox. Bob Porter
field Of Washington, Allie
Reynolds of New York and Bob
Turley of Baltimore.
The American League released
Stengel,s choices along with the
other players who, with the
eight starters selected in q poll
of fans, will represent the league.
The eight American League
starters, announced Sunday
night, are AL Rosen, Cleveland,
first base: Bobby Ayila. Cleve-
land, second base; Ray Boone,
Detroit, third base; Chico Car
rasquel, Chicago, shortstop; Or
estes Minoso, Chicago, leftfiield;
Mickey Mantle. New York. CEN
terrified; Hank Bauer, New York,
rightf1eld, and Yogi Berra, New
York, catcher.
Each of these eight top vote
getters must, according to the
regulations governing the game,
start and play a minimum of
three innings.
List Of Reserves.
For possible use in later in
nings. Stengel chose the follow
ing players to round out his Is
man squad:
Catcher-Sherman Lollar, Chi
cago.
Inf1elders-Ferris Fain, Chi
cago; Jim Finigan, Philadelphia;
Nelson Fox. Chicago; George
Kell. Chicago; Harvey Kuenn,
Detroit.
Outflelders - Larry Dolby.
Cleveland; Jim Piersall and Ted
Williams, Boston.
Stengel, managing the Amer
lean League stars for the fifth
straight year, presumably stacked
a righthanded pitching deck be-
cause of the National Leagues
rough lineup of righthanded bat
tiers. at least in the fans lineup.
It includes Gran Hammer of
Philadelphia, Ray Jablonski of
st. Louis, Al Dark of New York.
Jackie Robinson of Brooklyn
and Roy Campanella of Brook
lyn-all righthanders and all,
with the possible exception of
Dark. respected sluggers.
Only lefthanded hitters in the
National Leagues starting line
up are Ted Kluszewski of Gin
cinnati. Duke Snider of Brook
Ign and Stan Musial of st. Louis.
The pitchers and other men,
bers of the National League
squad will be named by Manager
Walt Aston Of Brooklyn tonight.
Corrects 1858 Error.
In naming Portertield to his
pitching staff, Stengel was right
ing what many fans considered
a serious error in his 1853 selec-
tons. Casey was subjected to
considerable criticism for not
choosing Porterfield last year.
Williams, plagued by injury
and illness this season, will be
making his ninth All-Star ap-
pearance. He has a .407 batting
average for the series. Berra,
Dolby and Kell each have been in
IlVe OF Cne games.
Finigan, promising third base
man for the Athletics, is the
only rookie on Stengel's squad.
The White Sox dominate the
25-man list with eight players.
New York and Cleveland have
five each, Detroit and Boston
two each, and Philadelphia, Bal
timore and Washington, one
each.
Other game personnel named
by Stengel:
Coaches - Fred Hutchinson,
Detroit, and Marty Marion, Chi
cago.
Batting practice pitchers
Duane Pillette. Baltimore, and
Alex Kellner, Philadelphia.
Batting practice catcher-Bob
Swift, Detroit.
Trainer-Wally Book, Cleve-
land.
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