Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-11
WIN, LOSE OR
GNAV By FRANCIS sTANN
Their Home Towns Have Odd Names

ACCORDING TO BASEBALL DIGEST total of four
pitchers and other major leaguers games for
pitchers 400 for catchers and 500 nelders and
feders bred Washington c. the best hitter?
Chances are you'd never guess. His is Paul Hines
The best pitcher easier That would be Doc White
O90l-l3) who won 1870 games. gentleman scholar
(Georgetown), Doc White was one of the truly artistic
southpaws.
Contrary popular belief of the s0Oo-odd players
who have made the majors since 1876 do not from
the South Baseball Digest says that almost IL per
born in Pennsylvania, with New York. Illinois, Ohio and
California ranking next. in order.
STILL it is not the big cities that produce young men
who play the game As it in the beginning it now
bapayers come from Of the most spots
in the country.
IF YOU KNOW YOUR BASEBALL, spavnaw OKLA is no
joke That is the birthplace of Mickey Mantle no less
witherbee, NJ Y.?Johnny Podres home Egypt Pa? Curt
Simmons - ~.
There is place called Strawberry Plains Tex because
the Cincinnati catcher Ed Bailey halls from thereust
his backstopping running mate Smoky Burgess
Caroeen Another catcher Sawats of the Braves
may be less famous but he yields to few when
home town with picturesque -Shickshinny, Pa.
Balpayers come from such places Honey Brook Pa;
Potts Camp, Miss; Grass Valley Calf; Mooseup Conn.,
Snohomsh, WASH Baskerville, Tenn; Pqua Kan Nitro
w. Va; Saulk Rapids Mich; Barring Ark and Drumheler
Alberta, Canada.
Goodness knows. the boys really get around although
they don't hardly tall buildings until they make
good in the big leagues
WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT the day would come
when Sugar Ray Robinson would need building up? Well
it's come The international Boxing Club fearful that it's
return match between Gene Fullmer Robinson might
lay financial egg is pulling out all stops to both humanze
Sugar Ray and to stress his chances of beating Fumer
This wasn't the way it before their fight last jan
uary 2, when Fulmer beat the off Robinson
the middleweght title Then Fumer who apparently
needed building up One IBC Official speaking off the
put it this way:
Robinson much better than Fullmer that Ray not
only can name the round but he name the punch"
Ironically this same gentleman is beating the drums
in behalf of Robinson.
Sugar Ray many popularity contests with the
press while he was riding high Now have the word
Murray Goodman and members of the New press that
he has changed The tip is out that Robinson
humble man. one anxious to please his interviewers.
So does adversely work, sometimes.
NOT THAT 1T COMES any surprise to insiders but
Whitley Ford Of the Yankees "My No. pitcher"-Casey
StengeD admits in the issue OF True Magazine that
there exists strong pitchers union the major leagues
Whitley calls 1t The Great American Pitchers Union"
Makes difference for what team pitcher performs
Ford says In essence I'VE gotta protect Htter
are our enemies Every time gets real hot with bat
we compare notes and make up book the guy"
In his Ford leads of with the of Walt Dropo
who red hot in 1850 member of the Red Sox "By
July he was outhtng Ted Williams Vern Stephens and the
rest OF Bostons good-hitting club Whitley writes e
leading the american League in hitting and batted in
He was numbering pitchers with home runs
Faced with this threat the pitchers from the other
seven clubs started comparing notes September the book
on Dropo had been pretty well set he no longer
feared Dropo we pitchers had discovered could hit any kind
OF pitch that inside the strike zone
But-one pitcher quickly told another-Dropo would
chase balls that were just little of the plate high low
inside, outside Some power htters as Yogi Berra
nit that kind OF pitch very we'll Dropo the whisper
couldn't"
1t may may not be to Whitley but the hitters
have union of their It's just that better hasn't got
around to writing about II in a magazine