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The 1941 baseball All-Star game was held at Briggs Stadium in Detroit,
where the American League sent 22-year-old Bob Feller to the mound against Whit Wyatt,
who had a 13-4 record for the Dodgers at the break.
Two historic moments were taking place during the 1941 season.
Ted Williams was batting 4-0-5 at the time of the All-Star game, and would end the season batting 4-0-6.
Additionally, Joe DiMaggio was in the midst of his 56-game hitting streak.
At the time of this game, his streak stood at 48 games.
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Enjoy the game!
Good afternoon everybody, this is Ty Tyson speaking from Briggs Stadium in Detroit.
Speaking for WWJ, the Detroit News, and W45D, the frequency modulation station in Detroit.
And we're all set to bring you this All-Star baseball game this afternoon,
the annual All-Star game between the pictures of the American League and the National League.
A great day for a ball game, probably the best day that the teams have had since the inauguration of this series between the Blue Clubs some nine years ago.
Bill Finkel's fans are out here playing right below us.
It's pretty hard to talk over. They're right down here between the home plate and the screen behind the stands.
The American Leaguers are taking their infield practice in the present time.
And Al Schacht's doing a bit of frowning around third base.
Trying to get a little cleaner to you with all the fans going on.
I assure you the fans will not be here after the play starts. They'll be over in the stands.
Briggs Stadium is all decked out in the national colors.
There are very few vacant seats at the present time, and the reserved seats for the game were sold long before noon.
They're still coming in to take up positions in what few vacant seats are available now.
They're sold, however. The only seats that I can see that are vacant I know are in the reserved section,
so most tickets have been sold, and these latecomers will be here probably before the game starts or shortly after it gets underway.
The actual play will start at 1.30.
Right now with the American Leaguers taking infield practice,
Buddy Tebbott is doing the catching here with Artie Fletcher batting them out.
Jimmy Fox is at first base, and Al Schacht down there clowning at third.
He just let a ball go right through the center of the straw hat, getting quite a laugh from the crowd.
Al will do some other stunts here a little later, but at the present time he's doing that old stunt of his playing third base, which we've watched for years.
Now the lineups. I'm going to give you the tentative lineups right now.
We'll check later on, but I know that a lot of you like to get these written down when you have plenty of time and long before the game gets started,
and I think it will be the official starting lineup.
I got the American Leaguers from Del Baker, who was managing this club, and Bill McKechnie, managing the National Leaguers, gave it to me.
And of course there may be a change before the game actually starts, but I doubt it very much.
Inasmuch as this is played in an American League part, the American Leaguers are the home club, and the Nationals will go to bat first,
and here's their batting order.
Stan Hack, H-A-C-K, third base, he's from the Chicago Cubs.
Terry Moore, M-O-O-R-E, the St. Louis Cardinals, left field.
Pete Reiser, R-E-I-S-E-R, Reiser, from the Brooklyn Dodgers, center field.
Johnny Mize, M-I-Z-E, St. Louis Card, first base.
Bill Nicholson, N-I-C-H-O-L-S-O-N, from the Chicago Cubs, right field.
Markey Bond, D-A-U-D-A-J-N, of the Pittsburgh Pirates, shortstop.
Linus Fry, F-R-E-Y, Cincinnati Reds, second base.
Mickey Owen, O-W-E-N, the Brooklyn Dodgers, catcher.
And Whitlow Wyatt, W-Y-A-T-T, of the Brooklyn Dodgers, pitcher.
Now let's see, that gives two of the Chicago Cubs,
two of the St. Louis Cardinals,
three of the Brooklyn Dodgers,
one Pittsburgh Pirate, and one Cincinnati Red,
the starting lineup for the National League.
For the Americans, it's Bobby Doerr, D-O-E-R-R,
for the Boston Red Sox, second base.
Cecil Buck Travis, T-R-A-V-I-S, Washington, third base.
Joe DiMaggio, New York Yankees, center field.
Ted Williams, of the Boston Red Sox, left field.
Jeff Heath, of the Cleveland Indians, right field.
Joe Cronin, of the Boston Red Sox, shortstop.
Rudy York, of the Detroit Tigers, third base.
Bill Dickey, the New York Yankees, catcher.
And Bob Feller, of the Cleveland Indians, pitcher.
So that gives us DiMaggio and Dickey, of the Yankees.
York, of the Tigers.
Feller, of the New York Yankees, catcher.
And Heath, of the Cleveland Indians.
Bobby Doerr, Ted Williams, and Joe Cronin,
of the Boston Red Sox.
And Cecil Travis, for the Washington Senators,
in the starting lineup. Just a minute.
Yeah.
All right, what do you want?
Al Schacht has now gone out on that pitcher's mound.
He is warming up with a gent that almost knocked him over.
I think it's Johnny, Johnny Radulovich.
He's really sucking it back to Al.
Al has taken his glove off the hand.
And now one of the boys are bringing him out a glove
that is just about as big as the ordinary catcher's chest protectors.
Not quite as big as the ones that the umpire use,
but maybe Al will do a little better later on.
Winding up, you can't even see from, well, a little below his shoulders.
He's entirely covered from there up by this mitt.
He's lost out there. He's facing the center field as he starts winding again.
Now he turns around. He heaves this one in, the ball.
Catcher shakes his head and throws it back awfully hard.
Backs Al back three or four feet. Tears that glove off.
And he has a telephone there. He's picking it up and calling.
And here comes the same lad out from the Tigers bench,
which will be the American League bench this time,
more of the third base side, wheeling out a glove that just fills a wheelbarrow.
And it's a good sized wheelbarrow, not a toy barrow,
the kind that Neil Conway uses out here to keep the field in good shape.
He's got this glove up on his shoulder and partly on his head.
He's staggering around out there.
He's really putting on a good show for the folks.
He starts, starts to swing and the weight of the glove
pulls him back about ten feet behind the pitcher's mound.
There's the wind up and the glove knocks him flat on his back.
He puts it up and down on his head and it drives him flat to the ground.
In the meantime, Bob Feller is warming up in all seriousness
down here for the American Lakers and Whitlow Wyatt for the Nationals.
Both right handers.
Shack is down on the ground.
This catcher threw the ball back just over his head and cleared out into center field.
They're getting ready to raise the flag.
And the band is all set here to play the National Anthem.
The umpires have just come out.
And here's the way the umpiring will be handled during the first four and a half innings.
Bill Summers of the American League.
We're getting the lineup over the P.A. system.
And I'll give you the umpires before they start.
Bill Summers of the American League at behind the plate.
Hugh Jordan of the National League at first.
Bill Grieve of the American League at second.
And Babe Pennelly of the National League at third.
And incidentally, Babe Pennelly played third base here in Detroit, 1920.
So he's starting this all-star game as umpiring at the same spot.
I will check up on this official batting order.
We're all right so far.
Mack, third base.
Moore, left field.
Reeser, center field.
Myers, first base.
Nicholson, right field.
Vaughn, shortstop.
Frye, second base.
Owen, catcher.
And Wyatt, pitcher.
National League lineup, which I gave you a while ago is correct.
Here comes the American League batting order.
Doar, second base.
Travis, third base.
Joe DiMaggio, center field.
Williams, left field.
Heath, right field.
Cronin, shortstop.
York, first base.
Dickie, New York, catcher.
Feller, Cleveland, pitcher.
The umpires are coming up, and it won't be long until this all-star game is actually on the way.
In the eight previous games, ten home runs were made in these all-star contests,
five by each league, so they're all even as far as that's concerned.
Only Frankie Frisch of the Cardinals and Lou Gehrig of the Yankees produced more than one.
Frisch hit for the circus in the inaugural game in 1933, repeated in 1934.
Gehrig made a home run in 1936 and another in 37.
Now, others that are, may get a home run today are Joe DiMaggio, who hit one in 1939.
Jimmy Fox, when playing with the Athletics, hit one in 1935.
Joe Medwick, who was representing the Dodgers this time while with the Cardinals, hit one in 1934.
The umpires, the managers, and the coaches have come out to the plate, getting all set.
And as I say, it will not be long until here we go.
In 1933, the American League won 4 to 2.
In 34, the American League repeated again 9 to 7.
And again in 35, they won 4 to 1.
Everybody up, National Anthem.
National Anthem.
There we are.
There's the roar of the crowd.
The band gets away from here and it won't be long, continuing with this record of the All-Star Games.
After the Americans had won again 8 to 3 in 1937 for five straight victories,
the Nationals have won the last three, or have won two.
In 1938, the Nationals won 4 to 1.
In 39, the Americans won 3 to 1.
And in 40, the Nationals won 4 to 1.
The Nationals also won in 36. Pardon that.
There were there 4 to 3 in 1936.
So the American League has the edge of 5 to 3 so far.
Umpire Bill Summers, the plate umpire, first half of this game is yelling,
come on boys, get the field clear to photographers.
Parafinalia, bring the lads out.
It's just about 1.30.
And Commissioner Landis, President Harridge, and Frick of the two leagues,
want to get this thing started right on time.
A lot of old ballplayers here today in this crowd of over 50,000.
I probably, the oldest one, at least the oldest one that I have any recollection of,
any knowledge of being here, is Bobby Low.
He's over 70 and he was a great hitter at the time.
He's out here, lives in Detroit, he's enjoying it.
There go the American Leaguers, out on the field.
York at first base, off the Detroit Tigers.
Bobby Doerr, the Boston Red Sox at second.
Joe Cronin of the Red Sox at third.
Cecil Buck Travis, short rather Cronin, Cecil Buck Travis, of the Senators at third.
William Williams of the Boston Red Sox in left field.
Joe DiMaggio of the Yankees in center field.
And Jeff Heath of the Cleveland Indians in right field.
And out there pouring in the ball to Bill Dickey behind the plate is Bob Feller,
Cleveland Indians' ace right-hander, with 16 victories as against four defeats.
Now the rules of the game, the all-star game, is that a pitcher works three innings.
He can't work any more than three unless he happens to be the third pitcher in the game
and the game goes into extra innings.
Then he dares to stay in as long as the manager so desires.
Umpire in chief Bill Summers is yelling something to Neil Conway,
the groundkeeper, to be sure and get a couple of these photographers out of the way
so they're down beyond the American League dugout opposite third base.
Stan Hack, left-handed batter, third baseman of the Chicago Cubs,
his first man up in this ballgame.
The National Leaguers are wearing their road uniforms,
so they're quite colorful, different ones.
Feller's first pitch, a fast ball on the inside corner around his knees for a call strike.
The Cubs have sort of a silky looking uniform, light blue pants with a white stripe down the seam.
Same color shirt, sort of a jersey effect with dark blue sleeves, white shoulder pads,
and a red stripe around the sleeve just above the elbow and a blue cap, rather colorful.
Feller just broke another fast one in there for the second called strike on Hack.
Hack is hitting in the neighborhood of 310 for the season.
The count is two strikes and nothing.
Feller starts that windup, here's the pitch,
and it's a low breaking curve inside close to the batter's feet for ball one.
Two strikes, one ball.
First man up in the all-star game, Stan Hack of the Chicago Cubs,
third baseman on the National League team.
We have a strong breeze blowing from the outfield right into the plate.
There's the windup for the next one, and Hack swings on a curveball to drop down in the dirt.
Dickie digging that out of the dirt.
Feller not relying on the fast ball to blow by that time, but a beautiful curve, one out.
Next we have Terry Moore of the St. Louis Cardinals, left fielder, and a right-hand batter.
Wearing the gray with the red trimming, steps in there, waves his batter.
And swings on the first pitch, a high fast one, getting the underside of the ball, falling it back to the net.
Strike one on Moore.
One man up, first inning, one strike on Terry Moore.
Feller draws his pitching hand across his shirt front,
goes on the old meat hand, leans over, gets the sign, begins that windup.
The arm is up, there's the kick, and the pitch is a curve outside, a little high.
Ball one and strike one.
One ball, one strike, one away, bases empty in the first inning.
Leo DeRoscher coaching at first base for the Nationals,
barking in there, Terry telling him to pick out a good one and hit it.
Feller starts his windup, and the pitch is in there, a fast ball on the inside corner, belt high, and 20 rapid.
On the count is two strikes, one ball.
Two and one on Terry Moore.
Feller pulls his cap down a little more firmly, kicks around at the pitcher's slab, leans over to get the sign from Dickey.
Bill comes out of that crouch, the windup starts, and the pitch is a hit, a fly ball rather, in short.
Center field, shortstop Cronin backing up for it and takes it fully out.
A little blooper in short center field, about 40 feet behind second base.
Cronin, shortstop, making the foot out.
So there's two away, and Pete Reeser, sensational hitting outfielder of the Brooklyn Dodgers, hitting 360 and a long ball hitter.
This kid is a pimp. I've seen him in spring training and he really can hit.
Left-handed batter, Feller goes to work, the base is empty, two outs, first pitch, fast ball high, outside, ball one.
He works for DeRosier, and DeRosier hollered, hey, and he looked around, he says, make him get it over and then sock it.
One ball to count.
Two men out, base is empty.
Dickie comes out of that crouch, Feller starts his windup, then begins all over again.
There's the motion, the pitch is a fast ball around the batter's knees for a called strike.
The count is one and one on Reeser.
Brooklyn Dodgers road uniforms are gray, blue stockings and blue caps, blue letters.
The count is one and one.
Feller has the sign, there's the motion for the windup.
They're playing Reeser straight ahead, Reeser bunt, foul down the third baseline.
And the count is two strikes and one ball.
Two and one.
Jimmy Wilson is the manager of the Chicago Cubs, coaching at third.
Leo DeRosier, manager of the Dodgers, coaching at first.
And the count is two strikes, one ball to Pete Reeser.
Feller gets a new ball ready, the arm goes up, here's the pitch.
Reeser swings on a low fast ball off the outside corner for strike three.
That ends the first half of the first inning.
Feller striking out two and causing the other to pop to Cronin and trot center field.
No run, no hit, no error.
First up struck out, Moore popped to Cronin behind second and Reeser struck out.
Now we get the American Leaguers.
See what they can do against the right-hand pitching of Whitlow Wyatt.
Mickey Owen, who is doing the catching at least as long as his battery mate,
Whitlow Wyatt is on the hill, first three innings at least,
wasn't expected to catch at all in this game although he'd been chosen,
but he suffered a bad bump over the eye and it didn't look as though he'd get into the game at all.
However, he is here and is going to catch.
He's wearing a mask with a special padding, looks like sheep's wool all up around the top there
and also along the left side at least, down along his jaw.
First man up will be Bobby Doerr of the Boston Red Sox playing second base for the American Leaguers this afternoon.
Right-handed batter.
Bob was out of the game, Bob the lineup for some time due to a very bad Charlie hold.
He's telling me he's all right now and he's in there ready to go.
He's been playing recently.
The last time the Red Sox were here he was out of commission.
Now here's Whitlow Wyatt, the record of 13 victories and 40 defeats.
Big right-hander used to be with the Tigers.
The first pitch, Doerr hits a high fly, a rainmaker right up at second base and fight.
Takes it for the putout.
One away on the first pitch.
Next comes Cecil Travis.
Third baseman, Washington Senators, left-handed batter.
Nice to the American Leaguers all wearing the white uniforms, the home uniforms.
Wyatt's arm goes up for the pitch.
It's a curve ball down in the dirt, ball one.
The boys are passing the ball around the infield a bit.
Owen tossing it out to Hack.
Hack gives it a rubbing up and tosses it back to Wyatt.
They're playing Travis just about straight away at that,
except shortstop Archie Vaughn has moved over a little toward second,
but the outfield is playing straight ahead.
And the next pitch to Travis, a fastball on the outside corner,
letter high for a called strike, makes the count all even at one and one.
One strike, one ball.
And the motion for the next one, outside.
Wyatt trying for that outside corner, has missed with two pitches.
He isn't very far outside, but just off.
So the count is two balls, one strike.
Taking his time looking for the sign, Owen comes out of the crotch.
There's the motion.
And it's fouled into the upper deck, opposite third base, souvenir ball.
Strike two and the count is two and two on Travis.
He hit a fastball, a high fast pitch.
A little late getting around that time.
Two strikes, two balls.
One man out, bases empty in the first, no score.
Here's the pitch.
Travis turns one around back here in the screen, right behind the plate.
Foul ball.
I can't see very many open spaces in Briggs Stadium right now.
I would say right now there are over 50,000 in here.
Wyatt gets a new ball, rubs it up a bit.
Choosy's gum, waiting for the sign.
He already has it.
Owen comes up, here's the pitch.
And there goes a drive to center field, coming in fast for it.
And takes it for the putout, his center fielder, Pete Reiter, a reacher.
Two men out and a big hand being afforded, Joe DiMaggio.
Joe comes up there, taps the plate for the handle of his bat.
This game doesn't count on that consecutive record of hitting.
He's already hit in 48 straight games.
See whether he makes it 49, but this will not count.
Thursday's when Joe wants to get number 49.
First pitch of Wyatt, right over the outside corner, belt high, a nice curve for a called strike.
And they're playing Mr. DiMaggio plenty deep and shading him a little toward left field.
The next pitch is a high fly.
Third baseman Hack is coming over across the foul line as the wind blows it right into the third base coach's box.
He takes it for the putout.
So each team retired in order in the first inning.
No run, no hit, no error.
Door, pop to second baseman Frye.
Travis, fly to reacher in left center, and DiMaggio fouled out to third baseman Hack.
Now we're ready to go into the second inning.
We'll have Johnny Mize, Bill Nicholson, and Archie Vaughan.
First three to face Bob Feller.
Big Johnny standing there working with three bats.
He's a powerful lad, hitting.348.
Johnny Mize, Cardinal, first baseman, left-handed batter.
First man to face Feller in the second inning.
No score, no hits.
The windup, Feller's first pitch to Mize is a fast ball outside for ball one.
Bob steps around, gets a better footing out there on the hill.
Field is an excellent playing condition.
An ideal day, bright sun, little breeze.
Next pitch, Mize hits a high fly to center field.
DiMaggio playing perfect position, fades a couple of steps and takes it for an easy out.
One down and Bill Nicholson of the Chicago Cubs, left hand hitting right fielder.
Moving up in the spot just vacated by Mize.
He's a big powerful lad, too.
Now that wind has switched a little bit and blowing more toward the right field stands,
benefiting left-hand full hitters a bit.
Feller's first pitch, a fast ball, fouled back against the screen, strike one.
Came in there with a fast, letter-high pitch.
One strike on Nicholson.
One man out, bases empty, second inning, the all-star game.
No hits and no runs.
Feller working on this new ball, he's satisfied with it now.
Leans over and gets the sign from Dickey.
Bill comes out of the crouch, the arm goes up, here's the pitch.
A curve ball breaks over, starts outside and comes over belt-high for a called strike on Nicholson.
Feller throwing a nice hook.
One ball, one strike.
Now Bob is crouching over, he's all set, straightens up.
The arm goes up twice, there's the kick, the pitch is a fast one outside, a little high for ball two.
Two balls, one strike.
Two and one.
Crowd pretty quiet, very tense.
Feller begins his motion, here's the pitch.
Outside again, another fast ball, a little high and outside.
Two balls and two strikes.
That derosher has plenty of voice coaching down there.
First base, Jimmy Wilson, manager of Nicholson, just gave him a sign.
I don't know whether he's reading Feller or not, but at any rate he gave him a sign.
Now we'll see what happens.
There's the wind up, here's the pitch, and it's a curve ball that breaks over for a called third strike.
Whatever Jimmy gave him, I don't know whether Nicholson caught it or not,
but at any rate he stood there with his bat on his shoulder as Feller broke over a curve for a called third strike.
So there's two out, bases empty.
Arki Vaughan of the Pittsburgh Pirates, shortstop and left-hand batter coming up.
Three left-hand hitters in a row in this inning.
That's three strikeouts for Feller of the first five men retired.
First pitch is a high fly close to the foul line in left.
Ted Williams is coming over fast for it.
He's under it and takes it just as he crosses the foul line.
Plenty high in left field and the wind blowing toward right field helped keep that ball in
where Williams could finally get up to it to make the catch.
So that ends the second inning for the Nationals.
No run, no hit, no error.
Mize fly deep to DiMaggio in center field.
Nicholson took a called third strike and Vaughan fouled to Williams in left.
Coming up for the second time at bat, the American League presents Ted Williams hitting 4-0-5.
Jeff Heath, 3-71.
Joe Cronin, 3-38.
Williams is the only lad who has hit a ball over the roof of the third deck in this ballpark.
It is quite a cloud.
There's Owen's cause to fry at second, fry whips at the Vaughan, Vaughan over to Hack.
Hack gives it a going over before returning it to the pitcher's mound.
Now Wyatt has it and we're ready to go.
And this is WWJ and W45D Detroit bringing you the All-Star Classic from Briggs Stadium.
Williams up there at the plate, Wyatt looks him over.
Now he has the sign, Owen comes out of that crouch, the arm goes up for the pitch,
and it's a fastball outside about shin high for ball one.
And when shin high on Williams, it's up there pretty close to six feet.
They're playing Teddy well around toward right field.
The defense, next pitch a curve breaks over the plate but too low.
Ball two, two balls, no strikes.
Two and nothing on Williams leading off.
There's the wind up, the pitch, ball three.
Ted almost went for that one, a sinker that broke right down almost in the dirt.
Owen had the back of his glove on the ground when he received that pitch.
Three and nothing, fastball through the middle, the automatic strike.
Williams taking it, never moved his bat off his shoulder.
He looks down toward first base where Merv Shea is doing the coaching.
Artie Fletcher coaching at third for the Americans.
Count is three and one.
Wyatt winds, he pitches low for ball four, the first man to get on base in this ninth All-Star Clash.
Ted Williams getting there by the base on ball group.
Jeff Heath, another left-handed batter, hits a long ball coming up there.
Heath of the Cleveland Indians hitting 371.
Williams on first, nobody off.
Heath seems ready to go and he's backed out of the batter's box, rub a little dirt in his hand,
getting a little sign from Fletcher down there at third.
Wyatt pitches from the shoulder for the first time.
Heath swings at a low breaking drop for strike one.
Wyatt had that one down pretty tight, right down around his chin.
One strike on Heath.
Williams taking a little lead, not much.
Mize is holding him on pretty closely.
There's the ground ball to second base, it looks like a double play.
It's a double play from Fries to Bond to Mize.
Looks like a since Taylor made double play when that ball left Heath back.
Not very hard hit ball and down toward second, which gave Fries a chance to come into the ball
while running in toward second base.
Bond coming across, taking the easy toss, then rifling it to Mize to complete the double play.
And here comes Joe Cronin of the Boston Red Sox, right-hand batter, two out and the base is empty in the second.
He's there with his bat boys high in the air, waiting for that first pitch.
And here it comes and it's in there too, a fast ball, plenty fast on the inside corner about belt high.
Call strike on Cronin.
Wyatt starts his motion for the next pitch and bends a curve over this time, pulling Mr. Cronin.
Belt high curve ball for strike two called, two and nothing.
Out base is empty in the second, no score and no hits.
Only one man has reached base. That was Ted Williams starting this inning on a base on balls.
Playing Cronin toward left field with Bond playing a very deep short stop over toward third.
There's the pitch and Cronin flies to right and settling himself for the catch out there in right field
as Bill Nicholson takes it for the out and that ends the second inning.
No runs, no hits, no errors.
Williams first up, walked on five pitches.
Heath grounded into a double play, Fry, Bond to Mize and Cronin fly high to Nicholson and right.
This is a tight little ball game but we expected the same.
Pitchers like Feller and Wyatt opening the game.
It really didn't look to me as though either team were going to get any runs in that first three innings.
Here comes a couple of boys from the bullpen out under the stands
because this will be Feller's last round to go.
That is a large gentleman trotting in there Paul, big Paul.
When he carries a windbreaker just on half of his body he looks much larger, doesn't he?
Yeah, he looked pretty large against Tigers in the last game, last ball.
Here we go, it's Linus Fry first up for the Nice and Lakers, Cincinnati Reds second baseman.
Left handed batter, Fry, Owen and Wyatt unless they use a pinch hitter for Wyatt.
Don't think they will because Witt may pitch the third against the American Lakers.
Feller starts his windup and the first pitch is way outside, ball one.
One ball to count, Linus Fry first up, third inning, no runs, no hits.
Here's the pitch, a swinging strike and he goes for a low ball off the outside corner.
On the count is one and one.
One strike, one ball, Feller mopping his brow with his search sleeve.
Now he's around satisfied, getting the sign, Dickie still in the crotch, Bill comes up, Bob starts his motion.
The pitch, ball two, a little high and a trifle outside to a left handed batter.
Started throwing him off this near corner to me.
Two balls, one strike.
And the motion for the next pitch.
A foul down the first baseline, right between the bag and the coaches box.
The Rochers jumping away from someone has a souvenir, that one took a nice hop as it got out there to the barrier.
Someone sitting in a field box reached out and got it.
He has a souvenir of this all-star game and the count on Fry is two strikes, two balls.
First man up in the third inning of a hitless and scoreless game so far.
Feller steps around out there on the mound, smoothing the dirt a little bit where he comes down after delivering the pitch, get a better footing.
Now he's in the hole ready to go, his arm goes up and down and up again, here's the pitch.
Fry lines a single to right field for the first hit of the ball game.
Line drive about ten feet high as it went through the infield midway between first and second base.
The first hit of the ball game, Linus Fry of the Cincinnati Reds.
And here comes Mickey Owen, Brooklyn catcher.
One man on, nobody out.
The second-leaguers put the first man on in the second inning but he was erased with a double play for the next batter.
Now here's the national, national leaguers have their first chance.
Owen is a right-hand batter, Tickey comes up out of that crouch calling for the pitch.
Feller pitching for the first time without a full windup, lays the first man over, letter high for a called strike.
One strike on Owen.
Fry edges off first a bit, Yorker standing right on the bag.
There he's caught between first and second, throw to York and then to Cronin.
And he's out.
Feller, York to Cronin.
Fry made his break too soon before Feller delivered the pitch and was an easy out.
Feller, York three-six to Cronin.
One away.
Now Feller can go back to that full windup.
And that's a bad break for the nationals.
Time called. Owen starts to wander out of the batter's box as an airplane passed not over the field.
He was off the beam this time, didn't fly right across the field.
But it was a bit disconcerting. Mr. Owen didn't want to take his eye off one of Feller's pitches looking at that airplane.
Mickey doesn't want to get hit in the head again.
Here comes another plane. I don't know whether it will stop for this one or not. It's coming right over too.
Here's the pitch and there's a high fly to left field. Plenty of chance.
Williams is galloping in slowly. He's under it now waiting and takes it for the out.
Two away.
And Wyatt is not going to pitch. We're going to have a pinch hitter for Wyatt.
The with is all through after pitching two innings.
Mel Ott. Mel Ott is batting for Wyatt.
Ott is a left-handed batter that cocks his foot, lifts it off the ground before he swings.
That front foot comes up and the pitch is low. Ball one.
Ott batting for Wyatt.
Melvin is a pretty fair hitter, if anyone should ask you.
He has 18 home runs to his credit, leading the older circuit.
Left-handed batter. The count is one ball. Two men out. Base is empty.
Feller pitches and it's a fast one outside and high for ball two.
Feller pitching him down and then high and outside.
Two balls, no strikes.
Bob starts his windup. Here's the pitch.
And he lays that one over midway between the belt and the letters on his uniform for a called strike.
Two balls, one strike.
Lots of chatter out there in the American League club talking it up to Feller.
Bob peers in there for the sign. Dicky's out of the crotch. The arm goes up and the pitch is bowled.
Back in the netting behind the plate for strike two, making the count all even at two and two.
Two strikes, two balls.
Two men out. Base is empty. No score in this ball game.
Feller getting a new ball in shape. Has his glove tucked under his arm.
Now he pulls it on, dries his pitching hand on his shirt front, leans over, comes up straight, begins his windup.
Here's the pitch. And the pitch is outside for ball three.
So Ott will have a chance to look over a three and two pitch and make up his mind.
I'm glad it's Ott, not me.
Three and two. One hit has been made off Feller. He has fanned three and he's walked none.
Now there's the windup. This is the pitch. Here she comes.
And Ott strikes out, the bat flipping out of his hand, going clear up to first base.
Dicky dropping the pitch, which was in the dirt, picked it up through the arc.
And that ends the third inning for the National Lakers.
And Feller is all through after pitching his three-inning score, allowing one single, no runs, struck out four, and walked none.
No score in this ball game. And since Ott batted for Wyatt, Wyatt only worked two innings, gave up no runs, no hits, struck out none, walked one, and Big Paul Derringer, Cincinnati right-hander, now pitching for the National Lakers.
He'll pitch first to Rudolph Preston York. And both boys are familiar with each other as far as playing against each other.
We also have a new catcher in there. Al Lopez of the Pittsburgh Pirates catching.
Rudy York first up, Derringer pitching. And Rudy gets quite a hand.
Local boy, only one on this club today.
Hits the first pitch, an extremely high fly, an easy chance for center fielder, ricer, and he takes it for the put-out.
One away.
Next we have Bill Dickey, Yankee catcher, having a marvelously good year after a bad one last year.
Bill has come back a long way this year, which is a big help to putting the Yanks up where they are.
He's hitting 330 last year. Bill could hardly buy a base hit at this time of the season.
First pitch to this left-hand batter is outside, ball one.
Derringer winds, pitches a sidearm pitch, which is hit on the ground to second baseman Fry.
There's the toss to first, and Dickey is out. Fry to Myers.
Roy Cullenbine, St. Louis Browns, Detroit boy, batting for Feller.
Roy Cullenbine, he's getting quite a hand.
Left, he's a switch hitter, so he'll bat left-handed. Two men are out, base is empty, no score.
Derringer winds, here's that pitch, and he breaks a curve over for a called strike.
And the motion for the next one, a swinging strike, fastball. He was a little late getting around on that.
Two strikes and nothing.
Here's the pitch. Cullenbine hits right back to the box, an easy bounder.
Derringer grabs it, tosses to Myers, Cully is out, and that ends the third inning.
No run, no hit, no error. Three scoreless innings in this ninth All-Star Classic.
And now we've got a new American League pitcher, and it looks to me very much as though it might be Lefty, Thornton, Lee.
The last time I saw Lefty, Thornton, Lee, he was doing tricks for the Tigers here.
He has won ten games for the White Soxers.
Lefty, Lee, Thornton, Lee, now working for the American Lakers.
No score in the first three innings. This is WWJ and W45D Detroit.
The third man, Lee, will pitch to left-handed batting Stan Hack. First time around, feller, fanned Hack.
All right, here we go. Hack is in there, leading off in the fourth inning.
Lee's arm goes up for the first pitch, a sidearm curve for a called strike.
Hack was going to swing, decided not to, but the ball bent over the outside corner, around his knees for a called strike.
And the motion for the next one. Inside, ball one, one and one.
Throws a sidearm half crossfire pitch. Big tall range, you lad, six feet.
Arm goes up and he pitches low, ball two. Tried for that outside corner with a knee-high pitch, but the ball was too low.
And it's two balls and one strike. Two and one.
Ball three, a little bit off the outside corner, up around the letters of the uniform.
Shakes his head, he didn't think that should have been called a ball.
That's the first time we've seen any of the pitchers question the pitch, or just question the calling of a pitch.
Three and one, he may have to come in with a fat one this time. He does for a called strike.
Not too fat at that. Ball was down around the batter's knees.
Hack preferred to play the string out, the count is three and two.
This is the payball, there's the wind-up. Here she comes, and it's socked on the ground for a hit.
A single just out of the reach of Cronin, tried for a backhand stop, going over toward third base,
but the shortstop couldn't get in front of it, and that's the second hit of the game,
and the National Leaguers have both of them.
Fry is single to open the third inning. Hack's single to open the fourth.
The Fry was tapped off first, and I imagine that Hack will play it a little safer,
especially with a left-hand pitcher up there holding him on.
Terry Moore, foul of the first pitch into the crowd out beyond the National League dugout up first base way.
Ball skipping around out there. Here's a fan something to laugh at.
And umpire Summers tossed a new ball out to Lee.
Hack takes a bit of a lead. Moore here a right-hand batter, hits the right field, a fly ball,
and it's an easy chance for the putout out there taken by right fielder Heath.
So there's one away. Hack remaining on first.
Heath Reeser is up. Left-handed batter whom Beller struck out on his first appearance at the plate.
He hits a bounding ball to York, grabs it, steps on the bag. He's throwing down to Cronin.
And Cronin tags. Hack sliding in the second for a backhand double play.
An easy bounder to York right at the bag. Rudy grabbed it, stepped on the bag, and whipped it to Cronin,
putting it on to Hack as he slid for the bag, and that ends the fourth for the National Leaguers.
They had to play that double play in reverse. And the runner at second had to be tagged.
No run, one hit, no error. National Leaguers have the two hits that have been made.
Neither team has scored. The American Leaguers have received the only base on balls issued.
Ted Williams drawing one to open the second inning for the American League.
Any changes yet?
What about left field?
Elliott, Bob Elliott of Pittsburgh, is playing right field for the National Leaguers now.
And Bobby Doerr is first up for the Americans, fouls up into the stands behind third base for strike one.
He popped the second base for the first time at bat.
Derringer all set with a new ball. Pitches, Doerr fouls into the dirt, strike two.
Two strikes and nothing on Doerr. Derringer waiting out there with that new ball, nods his head,
Lopez comes out of the cross, hears the pitch, and it's socked on the ground to second baseman Frye,
picks it up, he didn't have to move forward, and throws him out at first.
So there's one away in the fourth.
And Buck Travis coming up, lied to center field the first time up. Left center.
The National League lineup at the present time is Terry Moore on left, Pete Reiser center, Bob Elliott on left,
Donnie Myers at first, Linus Frye at second, Archie Vaughn at short, Stan Hackett third, Derringer pitching,
and Lopez catching the first pitch. Travis, a left-hand batter, low outside. Ball one.
And the windup for the next one. Foul, strike. Just ticked a little piece of that.
White padding on the mask used by the National Lakers. The catcher turns around,
he looks sort of like one of these white-faced monkeys.
There's a drive to left center field and it looks as though it's in there for a hit.
It is. It's going between Moore and Reiser for a two-base hit to the barrier in left field.
365 feet away, the first American League hit. And the first extra-base hit.
But Travis, off Washington, getting that one. With one out, Travis on second in the fourth inning, no score.
And that was a clean double. There was no chance for either Moore or Reiser to get in front of it.
And here comes Joe DiMaggio fouled out the third base the first time at bat.
First pitch, inside, ball one.
This is the first time anyone has got to be on first base.
High, fastball, outside, ball two.
Two balls, no strikes. Derrens are hunched at his shoulders.
Shoes is gummed, Modsy's head to Lopez.
Shortstop Bond playing well over toward third. DiMaggio hits a long fly to center, deep center field.
And it's taken by Reiser after a long run, 400 feet away out there.
And Travis sprints to third after the catch. That ball was really tight.
Reiser scampered well over into deep right center field to haul that ball in while still going,
at least 400 feet from the plate.
And someone, I think in the upper deck out there, threw something down.
I saw something pass between the ball and the direction Reiser was going,
which is not very good sportsmanship in anybody's ball yard.
Now they had a little huddle out around the pitcher's mound.
Hacks the third baseman, Lopez the catcher, and Derrens are the pitcher.
Has Ted Williams coming up to the plate.
Theodore Walks the first time at bat.
Long, lackey left-hander. Says he's right in the pink.
Steps in the left-hand batter's box. Derrens' arm goes up for the pitch,
and it's a fast ball outside, chin high for ball one.
The wind has shifted around again and is gently blowing in from right field.
Such a gentle step. And the motion for the next.
Strike called. Big Paul found that outside corner with a letter high fast ball.
One ball, one strike. Travis on third, two out on the fourth.
No score in this ball game.
They're shading Williams around toward right field. Derrens are pitchers.
Williams fouls back up in the top deck.
Up among the working press.
And the working press are pressed for space today.
There's a lot of them here. The count is two strikes. One ball. Williams up there. Here's the pitch.
Williams blinds the right field.
And right fielder Nicholson falls down the ball over his head against the barrier.
Travis comes home for the first run of the game, a two-base hit for Williams.
A line drive double for Elliott over Elliott's head.
He fell down, slipped out there, and fell flat on his back.
Could have had that ball had he been able to keep his feet.
With a low-lying sinker shot over his head then against the barrier for a two-base hit.
And the first run of this ball game is in.
The American Lakers leading one to nothing.
A cheap way to get a run, but the runs count.
Jeff Heath is up there, left-hand batter's box. First pitch a called strike.
That's a tough break for Derringer and the National Lakers when Elliott lost his footing and sat down on the grass.
Strike swinging.
He could have caught that ball about set time.
Strike, where he goes.
Two strikes and nothing on Heath. Jeff steps out of the batter's box. He's in again.
Derringer waiting for him.
Now Paul pitches, Heath fouls back in the net, and the count is still two strikes and nothing.
The crowd is murmuring about that drive out there and the fact that Elliott fell down.
He just feet shot right out from under him, sat down gently. Strike three called on Heath.
Derringer laying that one right in the middle.
And that ends the fourth inning.
And the American Lakers take the field with a one-run advantage.
One run, two hits, no error, and one left on base.
Bobby Doerr, first up, grounded out on an easy chance, second to first.
Prior to Myers, Savas lined a double between left and center field against the barrier out there, 360 feet.
For the first American League hit of the game, a two-base hit.
DiMaggio flied very deep to Reeser in right center.
Williams lined to right field, a sinking line drive.
Right fielder Elliott slipped in the grass, sat down, and the ball just over his head against the barrier for a two-base hit, scoring Savas for the first run of the game.
And Heath then took a called third strike.
So there you are, one run, two hits, no error.
Each team has made two hits.
And the American Lakers have the one run that's been scored.
Myers, rather, first up, starting the fourth, fifth inning rolls to York for an unassisted putout.
One away, and here comes Elliott.
Right-handed batter.
Now Bob can get back in the good graces of everybody by stocking one home run out here to make up for that sitting down in the grass business out there.
Foul ball, hits Dickey on the right pole.
And Bill is stepping around there, limping a bit.
Strike one.
One strike on Elliott.
Lee's arm goes up, he pitches, a fast ball down toward third.
Savas comes up with a nice stop and throws him out at first.
Two away, bases empty.
Archie Vaughn, the Pittsburgh Pirates, shortstop in this game for the National Lakers, tried to left field the first time up.
Moves in there in the left-hand batter's box.
Lee starts his wind-up motion.
Here's the pitch.
And a wide sweeping curve outside, ball one.
There's the motion.
Foul, bouncing up toward Leo DeRoscher, coaching at first.
One strike, one ball.
Two men out on the fifth.
American Lakers leading one to nothing.
Lee pitches a curve ball outside for ball two.
It's two balls and one strike.
And the motion for the next one.
Foul right over our heads up here.
No change in the count, two and two.
Two strikes, two balls.
Two men gone, bases empty.
Ready to go, the arm goes up.
Here's the pitch, fast ball inside, nearly hit him.
Stayed up there a long while to see whether that pitch was going to break.
It didn't.
That high hard one inside, right under his chin.
Three and two, what'll it be?
There's the motion, the pitch.
It's a bounding ball over the pitcher's head, coming in fast as Bobby Doerr.
The throw is too late.
An in field hit, a leg hit for Archie Vaughan.
Slow high bounder over Lee's head.
Doerr rushed in from second base, had to take it.
Near the edge of the grass, coming in, and the runner beat the throw by ten feet.
That's the third National League hit.
We're getting a pinch hitter, I believe, for Linus Fry.
Brooklyn Dodger, apparently by the uniform.
Herman.
Bill Herman batting for Fry.
Right handed batter.
Two out, one on.
Curve on the outside corner.
Called strike.
One strike on Herman.
Fast ball high.
Ball one, one on one.
Billy Herman, former Cub, now with the Dodgers.
Lee pitches way outside.
Dickie had to leap out in the left hand batter's box for that,
and the ball apparently slipped out of the lefty's hand.
Bill is carrying it back to him, now tosses it to him.
With a word of encouragement, comes back behind the plate to count as two balls and one strike.
Tying runners on first.
Marky Vaughn, two men out.
Billy Herman batting for Linus Fry.
Lee pitches.
Herman swings and misses.
Strike two.
Missed the fast ball that was outside.
I think he was looking for a curve.
Thought that would bend into him.
But it didn't.
Two strikes, two balls.
There's the stretch, the pitch.
And there goes a drive safely into center field.
DiMaggio takes it on the first hop.
A single for Herman.
Advancing Vaughn to second.
The tying runners on second.
Al Lopez, the catcher coming up.
That's the fourth National League hit.
One hit off Beller.
Free off Lee.
First pitch to Lopez, a right hand batter, a little guy.
High outside, ball one.
Dickie carries the ball out again, has a word or two with his pitcher.
Runners on second and first, one away.
Now Dickie's back there again.
He's out of that couch.
Lee pitches and there's a bounder to Sabbath.
The third grabs it up, runs over and touches the bag.
Ahead of Vaughn coming in for a fourth play at third.
Ending the first half of the fifth inning with no runs, two hits, no errors, two left on base.
Now here we go for the recap of that inning, the fifth.
Johnny Myers first up, grounded to York for an unassisted put off.
Elliott grounded off third to first.
Vaughn singles to door.
Herman batted for fry and singles the center.
Vaughn stopping at second.
Lopez forced Vaughn at third.
Sabbath unassisted, no run, two hits, no error, two left.
Now we have a change in the umpires.
There's probably a change in some of the lineups too, I don't know.
Herman, who batted for fry, is now playing second base for the National League.
And Bucky Walters pitching for the National League.
The score is one nothing in favor of the American League.
The American All-Stars coming up for their turn at bat in the fifth.
Herman playing second, Walters pitching.
And we'll get a change in these umpires, they'll move around.
Finnelli, I believe, is coming in behind the plate.
Finnelli of the National League, he's exchanging with the way it looks now with Bill Summers,
who did the first four and a half innings behind the plate.
Bill is going out to third, take up his position along that foul line behind third.
Finnelli coming in behind the plate.
Jordan taking care of the second base assignment.
And Bill Grieve of the American League, the first base assignment.
So there's National League umpires behind the plate and at second.
American League umpires at third and first.
Joe Cronin first up, face Bucky Walters, swings and misses the first pitch for strike one.
And the motion for the next one.
Fast ball inside.
One strike, one ball.
Cronin fouls up in the third deck.
Strike two, two strikes, one ball.
Finnelli stands off with a right-hand batter up there.
Stands a bit as we're facing the diamond.
Stands a bit to the left of the catcher and crotches right down with him.
You really can see those pitches come in there.
Another foul back upstairs.
In other words, with a right-hand batter up, Finnelli, the plate umpire, is virtually between the catcher and the batter.
Not out in front of the catcher, I understand, but he really gets a good look at that plate.
And he's right down there with him and Cronin fouls another one high up on the roof behind the stand.
Two strikes and one ball.
Cronin first up facing Bucky Walters, the right-hander.
Cincinnati Red, Joe fouls another one back in the screen.
Passing a new ball out each time, this one goes out to Stan Hack, the third baseman, giving it a going over, then passing it back to Walters.
Cronin flied to right field the first time up.
Walters looks him over, begins that motion.
Here she comes.
Fast ball for a called third strike and Cronin lets off one yell, but quickly stops and starts over to the dugout.
It looked like a pretty fair pitch to me, right in there in the inside corner of fast sidearm heave.
Bob Felti for a called third strike.
Rudy York coming up.
Rudy flied to center field, a towering fly the first time up on the first pitch.
All right, one away.
York up there, strike.
He says he swung.
Pompaya Pennelli says he swung.
Rudy says he didn't.
He's out barking at Babe.
Babe says it's a strike, Rudolph.
It was a nice curved ball that did miss the outside corner and a bit low.
It was breaking off, a nice jugg.
One strike and the next pitch.
Ball low.
One strike, one ball.
Seems like an American League crowd out here.
The way they're yelling, it's a good ball game.
Whoever you're for, ball two, low and inside.
Two balls, one strike, one out.
The ball is empty, one nothing in favor of the American Leagueers, fifth inning.
York at the plate, hits the next pitch, a single in the left field.
Low line drive into left, here comes the throw.
The shortstop and York is on first.
One man out, Rudy on first, Bill Dickey the batter.
That's the third American League hit.
Russell Travis, Ted Williams have doubles, York a single.
Derringer worked two innings, gave up one run, two hits.
Struck out one and walked none.
One gone, York on first.
Dickey up there in the left hand batter's box, first pitch.
There's a spin going down the left field line.
York is stopping at second.
Dickey rounds first and now he comes back when he sees that York pulled up at second.
Pretty fast feeling out there by Terry Moore and they know that Terry has a good arm also.
And Artie Fletcher coaching at third, knowing Moore's arm and York's rather lack of speed.
Rudy has no flash on the bases.
Held him at second.
Dickey had made a wide turn of first and was halfway down to second.
Had York not been ahead of him, it would have been an easy double of course for Dickey.
But they had to play this safe, chances are York would have been thrown out trying for third.
Lee is batting for himself.
Lefty Lee, the American League pitcher, bats him as he throws him, follows the first pitch, strike one.
One man out, scores one nothing in favor of the American Lakers, fifth inning.
York is on second, Dickey on first.
Each team has now made four hits.
Waters takes the stretch, there's the clutch, and the pitch, a swinging strike.
Lefty went for one that was low and outside, a fast ball.
Two strikes, no ball.
The high stretch, the clutch, he pitches, Lee fouls right over our heads.
New ball tossed in the game, count two strikes, no ball.
Finnelli moving over now with a left hand batter up there.
He's to the right of catcher Lopez, squats down with him to get this pitch.
And Lee drives the fly ball to Reeser in left center, a nice running catch, and York is going for third.
Here comes the throw, a good throw but too late, and York takes third after the catch.
Dickey remaining on first.
Reeser ran well over into left center for that one, a well-hit ball.
Two men are off, and Bobby Doerr comes up, has popped to second base, grounded to second.
Right-handed batter, Doerr of the Boston Red Sox.
Two gone.
Shortstop Bond playing rather deep for Bob.
Walters pitches, fast ball on the inside corner, letter high for a called strike.
Scores one nothing, remember, in favor of the American Lakers.
Two out, two on, Doerr fouls, going into the stands out left field way, strike two.
New ball tossed in, they're passing it around the infield.
Lopez to Mize, Mize to Herman at second.
Herman decides not to go any further with it, just tosses it back to Bucky Walters.
Bucky is doing a little juggling with the rosin bag, dusting even the back of his hand.
Standing there calmly, getting the sign.
Lopez down on the crouch, now Al comes up, there's the clutch.
Here's the pitch to Doerr, a swinging strike, and thus ends the fifth.
No run, two hits, no error, two left.
And that gave Walters two strikeouts in that inning.
The American Lakers also made two hits.
The American first up was called out on strike.
York single to left.
Dickey also single to left.
York stopping at second.
Lee hit a long fly to center fielder Reeser, who made the catch over in left center.
And then York took third after the catch, and Doerr struck out to end the fifth.
The score's still one nothing in favor of the American Lakers.
Each team has made four hits.
The American Lakers have had three left on base, the Nationals two.
And it's Joe Gordon playing second base now for the American Lakers.
Lou Budrow playing short.
And I, of Cleveland, and I guess that's the only change.
Yep.
Joe Gordon playing second base, Budrow playing shortstop.
Gordon of the Yankees, and Lou Budrow, the flashy shortstop of the Cleveland Indians.
As the National Lakers come up in the sixth inning.
First man up, sucked that first one down the line.
And he's going for third, going the left field line, and he's going for two bases on that pitch.
It's Bucky Walters, the pitcher.
That's the way to hit him when you're pitching.
The tying run on second on Walters' double.
Down that left field line on the first pitch.
Third double in this ball game.
Walters on second with a tying run.
Stan Haack coming up.
Left-handed batter.
Lee tows the rubber. There's the stretch.
The clutch and the pitch.
It's bunted toward third.
Lee fields the ball, whips it to York, a sacrifice, advancing Walters to third.
One man out on the tying run on third.
The batter coming up for the National Lakers is Terry Moore, right-hander who has popped to third, slide to right field.
He goes into a full windup.
The infield playing shallow, a long fly to left.
Williams backing up, takes it for the putout, and here comes Walters, streaking home with a tying run.
Williams shot a nice throw in there.
A perfect peg, but he had to throw clear from the barrier in left field.
So it's all even, boys and girls, at one run.
The base is empty and two men out in the sixth inning.
Lucky Walters, Lucky Walters the pitcher for the Nationals, open with a double, took third on packed sacrifice, lead to York,
then came home on Terry Moore's long lift to Williams and left.
Heath Reesor is up, hits the first pitch, a high fly to right field.
Jeff Heath is waiting on her, looking up at the sun.
He drops it for a two-base error.
Heath dropped that one for a two-base error.
He was under it for plenty of time, looking up at that sun, and I guess apparently lost it at the last minute.
The ball came into his glove and then popped out.
The first error of the ballgame.
The score tied at one run.
Reesor on second, 20 miles up.
Big left hand hitting first base, and the fly to center field and ground to New York.
Johnny's in there swinging.
Lee pitches a curve, clips the outside corner across his knees for a called strike.
And the stretch for the next one.
Swinging strike, going for a low one.
Two strikes, no balls, Johnny Myers at the plate.
Heath Reesor on second, the score tied at one run.
Sixth inning of this all-star game.
Lefty Lee pitches a fast ball, a little low, over the plate but a little low,
and Lee was on his way to the bench, and so was Dickie.
Thought he had him on that one.
Pumpire Pennelly says, no, it's a ball, boys.
Get back there and go to work.
Two strikes, one ball.
There's the clutch.
The pitch.
Myers hits a funny roller to third baseman Travis, comes up with the ball, whips it over to York.
Johnny is out, and that ends the first half of the sixth inning.
And the score is tied at one run on Bucky Walters' double,
opening the inning on the first pitch.
Sacrificed to third by Hacks.
Lee to York was the play, and then came home on Terry Moore's long high fly to Williams in deep left.
Reeser then ran two bases.
When Heath dropped his fly in right field,
Myers ended the National League half of the inning,
grounding out third to first, Travis to York.
One run, one hit, one error, one left on base.
Score all square at one run.
The American Lakers coming up in the sixth inning.
This is WWJ and W-4-5-D.
Enos Slaughter playing right field for the National Lakers.
Buck Travis first up for the American Lakers.
First pitch.
A line drive, an easy line drive, the second baseman, Billy Harmon.
One out.
DiMaggio coming up.
Joe hit a long drive, center field, second time at bat, first time fouled out to third baseman Hacks.
Leans away from a fast inside, Walters pitch for ball one.
And the next one, inside and low, ball two.
Two balls, no strikes.
One man out in the sixth.
The score tied at one run.
DiMaggio at the plate.
Joe takes a called strike, started the swing, let it go.
It was down around his knees and it's a called strike.
Walters starts his wind up, he pitches inside.
Buckie turns around to his back to the plate, rubbing that ball a bit.
Satisfied with it now, his arm goes up.
Here's the pitch.
Ball four.
Almost a wild pitch, nearly got past Lopez and DiMaggio walks.
First base on balls off Walters and the second base on balls issued in this game.
Whitlow Wyatt walked one, Derringer walked none, Feller and Lee have walked none.
Williams coming up.
DiMaggio on first.
Williams doubled the first time or the second time at bat drove in Travis for the lone American League run.
Ball one outside to this left-hander.
And the stretch for the next one.
Williams fouls to Mervin Shea coaching at first.
Took it on the first pop, strike one, ball one.
One ball, one strike.
The stretch, the clutch, and the pitch.
Ball two, it was fast and outside.
Fouled belt high.
Lopez all set, cocking his arm for a throw should DiMaggio break for second.
Joe was on first, one out, the score tied at one run.
This is the sixth inning.
Walters is set, he pitches.
Williams flies to center fielder Reeser.
Pete takes it for the put out and DiMaggio hustles back from down around second.
Two away.
Jeff Heath coming up.
Grounded to third and struck out.
Grounded to second rather and struck out.
He hit into a double play the first time up. Second time up was called out on strike.
Bucky takes his stretch, he's ready, he pitches to this left-hander.
A fast ball high and outside, ball one.
And the next pitch.
In the dirt, nice picking by Al Lopez, the catcher, digging that one right out of the dirt,
causing the dust to blow all over Pennelly's nice blue uniform.
Two balls, no strikes.
Slaughter playing Heath very deep out there in right field.
Reeser playing dead away in center field.
Here's the pitch, Jeff swings and misses, there's a throw down to first base.
And DiMaggio gets back safely.
Maia's taking the peg in front of the bag.
He had a big lead that time with a count, two balls.
Looked as though the old hit and run was on there, but Heath missed.
Two balls, one strike.
And the stretch for the next one.
Heath fouls out left field way, Hack is going for it, I don't think he can get to it.
Nope, the ball drops in the ground.
Those of you familiar with Briggs Stadium drops out there in the Tiger bullpen.
Heath picked it up and backhanded it into the crowd for a souvenir with Bill Summers right beside him.
Giving Hack quite a round of applause for that friendly gesture.
I remember a day when Hack was on third and it didn't look like a friendly gesture out here
when Tommy Bridges had to go to work and how he did that day in that World Series.
Two and two, the count on Heath, the pitch misses the outside corner.
Ball three, three and two.
Two men out on Medwick on, on DiMaggio on first.
There goes Joe, here's the pitch outside, ball four.
Heath rambles down the first, second base on balls off waters in this inning.
DiMaggio moves to second, two men are out.
And Lou Budroll who has just replaced Croninot shortstop.
The Cleveland flashy shortstop is in there, bats them right handed.
Lou, very popular around here, I guess all over the circuit, a grand kid and a great ball player.
First pitch low, ball one.
Two men on, two men out, DiMaggio on second, Heath on first.
Walters pitches high, ball two.
Two balls, no strike.
Lopez carries the ball halfway out to Walters.
Now he's tossing it to him.
Scored tight at one run, sixth inning, two men out.
Runners on second and first.
Budroll keeps waving that bat, he's in that crouch.
Walters pitches and Lou lines a single over second, a line drive in the center field.
Then it's missed by Reeser trying to pick it up on the dead run.
DiMaggio has scored and Heath is stopping at third.
Art Fletcher held Heath at third.
Budroll went all the way to second when Reeser trying for a one hand pick up of this line drive in center field.
Overran the ball and it permitted Budroll to take second.
Scored as a single and an error for Reeser.
DiMaggio coming home on the hit.
The run batted in for Lou and Heath pulled up at third.
The score is 2-1 in favor of the American Lakers.
Rudy York coming to the plate.
York has one hit, two times at bat.
Single to left.
Walters pitches a high, fast one inside for ball one.
And the next one.
Backs him away with another high, fast one inside. Ball two.
Two balls, no strikes.
Two men out, second and third occupied.
Walters using a full wind up.
He's backed Rudy away from the plate with a couple of pitches.
Now his arm goes up for the next one.
York swings at a high curve. Strike one.
Two balls, one strike.
Bucky shakes himself out there on the slab.
Glances over toward third.
Begins his wind up.
The pitch and Rudy hits a long high fly.
The left field. Reeser is under it and takes it for the out.
Heath coming over from center field into left.
Taking the ball about 350 feet away from the plate.
Plenty high in the air.
Not enough carry against that wind.
That ends the sixth inning with one run.
One hit.
One error.
And two left on base.
Travis, first up.
Line to second baseman Herman.
DiMaggio walked.
Williams, fly to Reeser in center.
Heath also walked.
Budrill lined a single over second in the center field.
Scoring DiMaggio.
Advancing Heath.
To third. Heath took third and Budrill second when Reeser fumbled a hit.
Heath being charged with an error.
Then York.
Slide high to Reeser.
For the third out.
Sid Hudson. Big right hander.
Now pitching.
Jimmy Fox of Boston.
Playing first base.
Dominic DiMaggio of the Boston Red Sox.
Playing right field for the American Lakers.
And this is the first time the two DiMaggios have played together since they came up in organized ball.
We hope they don't quarrel out there right in center field.
Going into the seventh inning. Scoring out 2-1 in favor.
For the American Lakers.
Now we get these changes.
Hudson starts his windup. He's a fastball pitcher and that's hit right back into left field for a single.
Fumbled by Williams. He falls down, comes up again and he goes an extra base.
Archie Vaughn.
Enos Slaughter, first man up.
For the National Lakers. Pickled that first pitch of Sid Hudson.
For the Washington Senators, a single in the left.
Then when Williams slipped out there and fell down, Slaughter took an extra base on the error.
Hanging runners again on second. Nobody out.
Archie Vaughn coming up. Left handed batter.
Woodrow keeping the runner close to second.
And just as Hudson was ready to pitch, Vaughn playing a little deep baseball there, backed out of the batter's box.
Bill Dickey has gone out with the ball to talk to Sid.
It's the kids' big moment.
Now the conference is broken up.
We're set to go. There's the stretch. And the pitch. Curveball inside low. Ball one.
One ball. No strikes. Nobody out. Slaughter on second.
There's a drive to right field. It's carrying high up and it's a home run.
The first home run of the ball game. Here comes some straw hats.
And it's Archie Vaughn of the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Tomoring in the upper deck of the right field stands.
Over 315 feet away.
And putting the National Lakers back in the lead.
As he throws Enos Slaughter across ahead of him.
It's now 3-2 in favor of the National League and nobody out in the seventh inning.
It's going to really tickle that Hudson fast pitch.
Riding high up in there.
This brings up Billy Harmon.
He batted for Fry in the fifth and singled and replaced Fry at second.
Socks a fast one down the third base line.
Rolling out into the left field corner. There's an extra base hit.
Being grabbed by one of the fans reaching out of the stands out there.
A two base hit.
And these National Lakers seem to care very kindly for the pitching.
Flipped in here by Sid Hudson.
A single, a home run and double. The first three men to face him.
They're out in the seventh.
Jimmy Foxx playing first base now goes over and talks to Hudson.
Coming into the batter's box. Right hand hitting catcher Al Lopez.
Sid pitches from the shoulder. Al Buntz out in front of the plate.
Dickie grabs it up and throws to Gordon covering first for the put out a sacrifice hit.
And Bucky Waters. His turn to bat.
He did all right the only time he's been up by talking a double down the left field line.
I don't know whether he, no he's not going to hit.
Somebody else coming up a Brooklyn Dodger.
Leo DeRosier has a little contact with him.
Number six it's Joe Ducky, Wucky Medwick.
Ducky Medwick batting for Waters.
Ducky had fun out here one time in the World Series.
When a member of the cards.
First pitch right handed batter breaks over for a called strike.
And the next one.
A sock on the ground, a shortstop.
Budrow bluffs the runner back to third then rifles the ball over to Foxx.
Retiring Medwick a swell play by Lou Budrow at Cleveland shortstop.
He held Herman on third and then whips the ball over to Foxx ahead of the runner for the second out.
Dan Hack coming up left handed batter with one hit and two official times at bat.
Herman on third the score three two in favor of the National Lakers seventh inning.
Hudson starts his wind up pitches a fast ball low ball one.
Dicky down there in the crouch calls for the pitch now he's straightening up.
Sid delivers a curve it's bunted a surprise bunt but it's foul over in the Tiger dugout.
Last where the American Lakers are huddling today behind third base and the count on Hack is one and one.
Score is three two in favor of the National League seventh inning.
One strike one ball that gets the sign he starts his wind up.
He pitches high over Hacks head fastball and plenty fast.
So the count is two balls and one strike the rocher coaching it first says now you're ready kid.
Pick him up meaning stock one out there and drive in this runner on third Billy Herman.
There's the motion the pitch right in there curveball Belfi for a called strike.
Count is two and two.
Two men out and Herman on third.
Hudson gets the sign he starts his motion he pitches a fast curve outside ball three and strike two.
Three balls two strikes the motion and the pitch is inside a little high for ball four.
Hack walks down the first and this brings Terry Moore to the plate.
Terry has popped the shortstop slide to right and a long fly to left field drove in the first National League run in that sixth inning.
Right handed batter runners on first and third more swings and misses the first pitch Hudson dropping a curve in there pretty low.
It's waiting around now he's all set.
Mickey out of the crowd here's the pitch foul pop deck out first base way rolling around on the roof strike two two strikes no ball.
No ball thoughts in there Hudson pitches a curve outside ball one.
The count is two and one.
Herman on third hack on first more at the plate.
There's the pitch and he swings and misses a fast from the inside close to his thumbs to strike three.
So that ends the seventh inning for the national leaguers in which they jumped in the lead by scoring two runs made three hits.
Had two men left on base and the American leaguers made one error started out with Enos Slaughter facing Sid Hudson the third American League pitcher single to left on the first pitch and took an extra base when Williams fumbled a hit.
Archie Vaughn homered in the upper deck of the right field stands calling behind slaughter to put the national leaguers in the lead three to two.
Herman doubled down the left field line Lopez sacrificing the third.
Dickie to Gordon who covered first medway battered for Walters grounded out short to first what role the shortstop holding Herman on third while throwing the runner up.
What and more struck out. Now we have the fourth National League pitcher coming in. Todd Patel of Chicago.
The Chicago Cubs. Water. Worked two innings gave up three hits one run.
Look out to walk to. That's always pitching for the Chicago Cubs pitching Harry Danning of the New York Giants now catching for the national leaguers and Charlie Keller of the New York Yankees.
Will undoubtedly bat after Bill Dickie bat for the pitcher Hudson. Dickie is first up. Bill has one hit and two times a bat and Keller is waiting here in the batter's ring strike called on Dickie Paso a right hander playing that one over the outside corner to Bill.
Score three two in favor of the National League seventh inning. Todd pitches high enough that football one one and one.
Flexes his arm a bit and pitches over that outside corner knee high to Dickie for the call strike two strikes and one ball.
Two and one. There's the wind up the pitch outside ball to two and two Harry the horse behind the plate.
Big Harry Danning. Good catcher good hitter. Two and two the count on Dickie. A couple of pretty good catchers right there at the plate now.
Dickie fouls into the dirt. Right on top of that pitch and I think it hit Bill on the toes have bounced up. He's leaning on the bat out there.
The second time he's been hit on that right foot.
Limping around as he comes slowly back to the left hand batter's box.
Bill time is up as he's standing there talking to umpire babe finale.
All right I guess we're set he's back in there the count two and two.
Herman is playing very deep for Dickie way out on the grass second base position.
That's all starts his wind up he pitches Dickie line third baseman Hacks and going in the air and spitting that ball as he was riding over behind third base.
Robbing Dickie of a two base hit and Charlie Keller will bat for Hudson.
Charlie Keller of the New York Yankees left handed batter now batting for Sid Hudson.
Hudson worked one inning.
Gave up two runs.
Three hits.
Walk none walk one.
Look out one.
One man out base is empty.
Strike two call finale raising his right arm at that's all found the outside corner around the batter's knees.
Two strikes and nothing on Charlie batting for Hudson.
Standing calls for the next pitch here it comes.
Ball a little high outside two strikes one ball.
And the wind up here's the pitch Keller fouls back.
But so getting a new ball gives it a going over.
Wipes his pitching hand on his trousers.
Those pretty light blue trousers with the white socks where that road uniform now he's in motion here's the pitch outside fastball up around the batter's eyes ball to two and two.
And the score is three to in favor the national Lakers seventh inning with one man out base is empty.
So taking plenty of time he does a lot of fiddling around now he's on the rubber and the arm goes up for the pitch it's coming and Keller struck out swinging going for the fastball on the outside corner down around his knees.
Joe Gordon.
New York Yankees now playing second base and coming to bat for the first time in this game.
Who gone in the seventh Joe steps up in that right hand batter's box he swings and misses a high fast pitch for strike one.
One strike on Joseph and the next one little high outside for Paul one one and one.
One strike one ball.
I thought taking his time to out got a one run lead to protect.
He pitches low and inside the Gordon ball to.
Two balls and one strike.
Clear out against the screen and left field nearly against the screen is Terry Moore left fielder.
He knows Gordon hits them out that way when he hits them and he filed that pitch off for strike two and account is two and two.
Two strikes two balls two out bases empty three two in favor of the National League.
National League has made eight hits they're supposed to be the club without the power while the American League has made five and there's a grounder to shortstop Archie Vaughan comes up with it pegs it to my eyes at first and Gordon is out and that ends the seven.
No run.
No hit.
No error three up and three away.
Dickie line to hack third baseman for a leaping one hand catch Keller batted for Hudson and struck out and Gordon grounded out short to first.
Now we get the land they fought.
American League pitcher and it looks like lefty Edgar Smith.
The White Sox Frankie Hayes of the Philadelphia Athletics going behind the plate.
Edgar Smith left hander used to be with the Philadelphia Athletics before going to Jimmy Dyches Chicago Club and Hayes with his battery mate there.
So they ought to have a whole lot of trouble getting signs fixed up.
The score is three to in favor of the National League this is WWJ and W forty five D Detroit bringing you this nine 12 star classic from Briggs Stadium.
National League is out in front three to two going into the eighth inning first man up will be Pete Reiser.
The Brooklyn Dodgers better be that no hit three times at bat.
He's a leading National League hitter.
Many a left hander right or a right hand batter.
It's first pitch is popped up into short left field but going out for it falls down and the ball drops foul.
There's been a good deal of skidding around in this field today on account of the rain yesterday.
The couple of heavy showers we had the infield is in excellent shape but apparently the outfield is a little bit skiddy because earlier in the game if you've been in all the day you'll remember that right fielder Bill Nicholson of the National League fell down and right out there causing a line drive at Ted Williams.
The skid over his head for a two base not Ted Williams has also fallen in left field and Budrow would have made a catch of this foul ball had he not slipped and fallen.
Count is one and one on research.
Hayes comes out of the crouch Smith pitches research swings at a ball that hit the dirt in front of the plate. That's how much drop Smitty had on that one strike to strike one ball three two in favor of the National League eighth inning.
Oh kick that one into the dirt. Another drop that Smith was throwing in there. Reacher got just a little bit of it on the end of his bat.
First man up in the eighth left handed batter strike called on research.
Smith finding the outside corner with a fast pitch between the knees and the belt.
The man coming up is Johnny Meyers left hand batting first baseman foul takes the first pitch strike one foul that right in the Hayes.
And the arm goes up for the next one.
Slow curve failed to come over on a little bit inside ball one one and one.
One strike one ball. There's the motion. My lines to right field it's going safely against the barrier bouncing away being chased out there but Dominic DiMaggio having trouble picking it up and it goes for a two base hit.
Dominic broke toward center field as my swamp.
But Johnny pulled the ball up toward the foul line on the opposite way from which he was going.
For the time he could get back the ball was passed him against the barrier playing it on the rebound. He had trouble picking it up.
It's a two base hit for Johnny.
One man out. My zone second Enos Slaughter.
Who opened against Hudson in the last inning and single.
Took an extra base when Williams fumbled moves into the left hand batter's box Smith pitches a curve low and outside down in the dirt out in the right hand batter's box for ball one.
That's the fourth to base hit my with the fourth to bagger.
One has a home run that accounts for the extra base hit.
One ball account to slaughter pays out of the crouch holding the myth for Smitty to see Smith pitches a beautiful curve starts at the batter.
He backs away a little breaks over the plate felt high for a call strike.
One man out and my zone second.
But he takes a stretch. He pitches a foul ball back into the stands bounces down the screen strike two on slaughter and it's two strikes and one ball.
Leo de Rocher coaching at first giving advice to Johnny Myers the runner on second.
Smitty comes up to the stretch down to the clutch he pitches strike three called and the Rochers talk to my eyes to watch a ball hit out there meaning left field didn't mean much there.
The slaughter took that pitch for a call third strike and here comes our people on getting a big hand from the crowd.
The darkies home run off said Hudson in the seventh inning with water on base put the national leaguers back in the put them in the lead two to three and they're still in there.
First pitch to our left hand batter ball one.
One ball account.
Smitty looks him over taking plenty of time. Now there's the stretch he comes down he pitches and there's another drive that looks as though it's his second home run it is it's up in the upper deck again.
Pickling that one in the upper deck of the right field stand to home runs for Archie Vaughn in this ballgame.
And that puts the national leaguers out in front by two more runs to make it five to in favor of the older circuit.
He really that ball was hit harder than the first hit further down toward center field.
But up in the stands I would say about 350 feet away the upper deck of the right field.
And the home runs in succession for Archie Vaughn each with a man on base. That's the time to get them to our faces empty now.
Billy Herman up that to hit the single and double in this many times that that first pitch ball on a right handed batter.
Proud is still murmuring over Vaughn's second homer a smash on the ground that Jimmy Fox gives it the chest then tosses to Smith Smith misses the bag and umpire grieve at first base rules the runner safe.
Smith is charged with the boot a bounding ball down toward second Jimmy Fox the first baseman went down and gave it the chest. In other words blocked it with his chest.
Picked it up. Tossed to Smith covering the bag. But he got the throw in time but his foot missed the bag ahead of the runner.
Herman is on first on Smith's error. Two men out. Harry Danning the catcher making his first appearance at the plate right handed batter takes the first pitch a fast one on the outside corner knee high for a called strike.
And the clutch for the next fast one outside ball one one and one.
Gorgeous five to in favor of the National League eighth inning two men out. Herman on first. Smitty pitches low ball to two balls one strike.
Two and one. Herman takes a lead Smith pitches Danning drops a fly ball out right field way. Joe Gordon goes out for it and takes his over his shoulder for the put out second baseman Gordon running out of the short right.
Take that over his shoulder for the put out that ends the eight for the national league. And they've got a three run lead on the Americans.
The American League comes to bat in the eight.
Two runs.
Two hits.
One error. One left.
With Edgar Smith left hander pitching for the American League.
Reaser was called out on strike. Mize doubled to right. Slaughter was called out on strike. Vaughn duplicated his hit of the previous inning by hitting a home run up in the right field pavilion scoring behind Mize.
Herman was safe at first when Smith missed the toss from Fox for the play and Danning popped to Gordon for the third out.
McCormick is playing first base for the National League McCormick of the Cincinnati Reds.
Frankie Vaughn's two home runs in this all star game goes just a little bit better than any of the his predecessors. Lou Gehrig and Frankie Frisch were the only ones to hit more than one home run in the all star games in which they participated.
Frisch getting one in thirty three and thirty four Gehrig making one in thirty six and thirty seven Vaughn got his in the same game.
Up at the dish is Cecil Travis. Count us one and one.
Buck has had one hit three times at bat a two base hit. He cracks a high fly foul over near the Tiger dugout toward third and it's taken by Stan Hack for the put out the National League is third baseman.
Harry Danning the catcher was right over there with him. One out in the eighth.
Joe DiMaggio coming up Joe has gone hit list he walked once slide deep to right center field and followed up the third base.
Rod Pesso right hander of the Chicago Cubs now pitching and lays a fastball in their letter high for a called strike.
One strike on the mark the score is five to in favor of the National League is Joe fouls a pitch that will go through a runway in the second deck coming up there looks like a souvenir ball but went right down through one of the runways and the ball was traveling pretty fast.
Maybe the good thing it did might have hurt someone who strikes and nothing. So getting a new ball from umpire finale guys his hand blows on the meat hand now rubs it dry boys are out there parking it up.
That National League team feels pretty cocky right now. Rerun lead in the eighth inning. So starts his windup. Here's the pitch DiMaggio drives the left center field it's dropping safely and getting past research against the barrier to the 400 foot mark and DiMaggio pulls up at second a double between center fielder research and left fielder Terry Moore.
Two base hit for the mod. This game doesn't count however in the consecutive game record.
54,674.
This ball little low ball one the official attendance just came in. I don't know whether you heard it or not but it's 54,674. Nice crowd but not the largest crowd that's been in this ballpark.
On pitchers a curve ball that fails to find the plate for ball to broke a little inside the Williams DiMaggio on second one man out in the eighth five to in favor of the National League.
There's the clutch.
Foul into the dirt right at the batter's feet that going for a low breaking pitch just got on top of it and the count is two balls one strike.
Wind freshening up a bit and blowing from the left field corner toward the right field corner coming more in just right in toward the plate from left field.
Beautiful day for this ballgame very high sky now no clouds up there tough on the outfielders. So pitches Williams fouls another one back right to an account is two and two.
Two strikes two balls.
That's so taking plenty of time out there.
He knows he has a kid up there that wants to wear the car out of this pitch.
Now he said, there's the clutch he pitches and Williams is called out on strike on a knee high pit.
Two men out.
Dominic DiMaggio coming up.
Now here's brother and brother Joe on second Dom at the plate.
Both of them right hand batters Joe a whole lot bigger than his brother both of them take about the same wide stance at the plate.
Two men out.
Five two in favor of the National League is in the eighth inning.
There's the clutch.
So pitches Dominic fouls back up in the screen. Strike one.
One strike on Dominic.
So looking at this new ball examining it very carefully and I seem satisfied with it.
He's a cagey pitcher out there. He takes his time. He goes through a lot of motion.
Now he's ready and Dominic drives a hit in the right field.
Here comes Joe coming home.
Joe DiMaggio scoring from second on brother Dominic's line single the right center.
The score is now five three.
In favor of the National League.
Two out Dominic DiMaggio on first.
Lou Budrow coming up.
Lou batted in a run in the sixth inning the only time he's been at bat.
So takes his stance. There's the clutch the pitch a very high fast one over the batter's head ball one.
Throw to first trying to nip the runner off nothing doing as Budrow took a cut at that pitch.
The count is one and one. Danning snapped the ball down to McCormick at first.
But Dominic DiMaggio got back safely.
But wrote the plate with a count one and one two out in the eighth.
So pitches and budrow singles through the box and over second.
Little Tom is going to third as Reeser fumbles and Budrow takes second.
Reeser has looked bad on a couple of ground hit.
And Dominic DiMaggio for site that Reeser would have fumbled that when he did come all the way home.
He had already stopped at second when Pete fumbled a bit.
Then he headed for third and Fodder went on to second.
Jimmy Fox is at the plate.
The tying runs are on second and third.
Two men are out in the eighth inning and this is Fox's first time to bat.
Budrow has done very nicely with two hits and two times at bat.
Go in a run the first time.
Fox swings at a high fast inside pitch for strike one.
And the crowd is a bit noisy right now.
I hope I'm getting this into the microphone.
All right Frank.
One strike on Fox.
Claude Wines.
Jimmy swings.
Strike two.
Fox is really trying to belt that ball out of the lot.
Two strikes and nothing.
Five-three in favor of the National Lakers.
Dominic DiMaggio on third.
Lou Budrow on second.
Two strikes on Fox.
Jimmy struck out on a high one.
I saw getting him on three pitches.
He went for all three of them.
That ends the eighth with one run.
Three hits.
One error.
Two left on base.
Travis first up.
Fouled out to third baseman hack.
Joe DiMaggio doubled to right center.
Ted Williams called out on strike.
Dominic DiMaggio doubled to right.
Scoring brother Joseph.
Budrow single to center.
And when Reeser fumbled a hit, DiMaggio went to third.
Budrow second on the error.
Fox struck out on three pitches.
The score now five-three in favor of the National Lakers.
Paso first up in the ninth getting a fine hand from the crowd.
He took care of a tough batter there when he had to.
Bud bats them as he throws them right-handed.
Eddie Smith out there on the hill left-hander.
The fourth National League pitcher to work.
Each team has used four pitchers.
And the first pitch is a called strike on Paso.
And incidentally Mr. Paso is quite a hitter.
He has banged out several home runs for the Chicago Cubs.
When it meant a lot while he was in there pitching.
Takes the next one outside.
Takes a look at it rather.
Ball one. One and one.
National Lakers have made ten hits so far.
The American League, eight.
The National League is leading by the same margin of runs.
Two runs. It's five-three.
Paso hits a drive to right field.
Dominic DiMaggio is waiting for it and takes it for the put out.
One away.
Stan Hack is next.
One hit.
Three times at bat.
Cookie Lavagetto is going to bat for Hack.
Cookie Lavagetto of the Brooklyn Dodgers batting for Hack.
He's a right-hander batter.
Right name Harry but they all call him Cookie.
He's a third baseman.
First pitch. Fouls behind.
Coming back for it is Hayes but the ball is in the stands.
Bouncing right around down there where Virginia is.
He almost got hit on Hayes.
Been bad for the ball.
Smithy gets a new ball from umpire Pennelly.
He's in there looking for the sign.
Hayes still in the crouch.
Here's the pitch.
Cookie socks a fast one to Jimmy Fox.
A swell stop.
He's tossing to Smith and this time Smith gets his hoof on the bag out there to retire the runner.
A nice play by Jimmy Fox, the first baseman.
A hard hit smash.
Curving foul.
Jim had to go for it fast.
Made the stop.
Smith hurried over, took the toss, and there's two away.
Next, Terry Moore.
Left fielder who has gone hitless in four times at bat.
Right-handed batter.
First pitch.
Fast ball in there.
Belt high for a called strike.
And the next one, a high foul up first base way.
Fox shielding his eyes from the sun with his glove is under it and takes it.
And that ends the ninth for the National Leaguers.
Now the American Leaguers come in facing a two-run deficit.
It's five-three in favor of the National League.
Smith got by the ninth inning retiring the side in order.
No runs, no hits, no errors.
Pass-over flag to Dominic DiMaggio and right.
Lavagetto batted for Hack.
Fox made a swell play on his fast bounder and tossed to Smith for the outtick first.
And Moore fouled to Fox.
Lavagetto will play third, replacing Hack.
We've got a new shortstop in there.
Eddie Miller of the Boston Bees playing shortstop for the National Leaguers.
Now I guess that about takes care of the changes.
Frankie Hayes will be the first batter-up for the American League.
Markey Vaughn can well afford to rest in this ninth inning.
He did all right.
He only made three hits, two of them home runs.
He drove in four of the five runs scored by the National Leaguers.
Eddie Miller of Boston, number seven, playing shortstop.
Lavagetto of Brooklyn, number five, playing 14 for the National League.
That's the only changes.
Lavagetto playing third, Eddie Miller playing short.
First pitch to Hayes, a called strike.
Aspaso broke it on the inside corner to this right-hand batter.
This is Frank's first time at the plate.
And the next one is hit to a high fly in short center field.
There's a gang of them out there for it.
And second baseman takes it for the putout.
A very high fly in short center field.
Three of them out there for it.
And second baseman, Herman, took it for the putout.
And Paso, all he has to do is get two more to win this ballgame for the National Leaguers.
Here's a pinch hitter.
Ken Keltner batting for Smith.
Ken Keltner of the Cleveland Indians batting for Smith.
Takes the first pitch on the outside corner, letter high, for a called strike.
Right-handed batter, two out, five-three in favor of the National League.
The pitch, Keltner smashes to shortstop.
Miller boots the ball.
And Keltner is on first on the error.
It was a tricky bounder.
Came to Eddie Miller the shortstop on a bad bounce.
And it scored and rightly as a base hit.
That ball took a bad hop down there.
Hit Miller in the chest.
He made a second grab at it.
And it scored as a base hit for Keltner.
He was batting for Smith the pitcher.
Now we have Flash Gordon up there.
Joe's been at bat once, grounded the shortstop, first pitch, swinging strike.
One man out on the ninth, five-three in favor of the National League.
And the next pitch.
Gordon lands a hit in the right field.
Keltner pulls up at second.
Slaughterfield did that ball fast.
The rally is on.
There's a chance here for the American League.
One man out and runners on first and second, a tying run.
And a fellow by the name of Buck Travis coming up, who has already hit one double.
In four times at bat and scored one run.
Left-handed batter, one away in the ninth, five-three in favor of the National League.
First pitch to Travis is a fast ball, a bit outside.
Letter high, ball one.
Keltner is on second, Gordon on first.
Paso pitching from the shoulder, here it comes.
And there's a foul ball drifting out left field way into the bullpen,
usually occupied by the Tiger warm-up pitchers.
Strike one and ball one.
For the National League, Archie Vaughan has batted in four of the five runs.
Terry Moore batted in the other with a long fly to left field.
Vaughan is not in the game now, Eddie Miller playing short.
Paso is ready.
He pitches, a curved ball gets the outside corner for a called strike on Travis.
Two strikes, one ball.
One man out, second and first occupied.
Here's the pitch, outside, ball two, two and two.
Two balls, two strikes.
There's the clutch, the pitch is coming.
Another one outside, ball three, three and two.
The crowd is hanging around.
I haven't seen anybody go home yet.
54,674.
Ted Williams has batted in one of the American League runs.
Lou Budrow has batted in one.
Dominic DiMaggio has batted in one.
Travis has a chance to bat in one, right here.
Paso working on the new one, dries his hand, faces the batter, here's the pitch.
Ball four, that loads the bases.
He tried to make him go for another outside pitch.
Travis wouldn't swing.
Three men on, one man out and Joe DiMaggio up.
Joe's had one hit, a double off Paso the last time up.
Walk once, fly deep to center field, bowled out to third base.
That's the first base on balls issued by Paso.
Bucky Walters walked two, Whit Wyatt walked one.
Derringer walked none.
Three on, full windup, here's the pitch, DiMaggio fouls.
Tops one, bounces it on the ground over toward the Tiger dugout behind third,
where the American Lakers are huddling today.
Fang runners on second, Keltner on third, Joe Gordon on second.
Buck Travis on first, one man out and one strike on DiMaggio, Joseph.
Plenty of racket out here.
Paso's arm goes up for the pitch, DiMaggio swings at a fast one,
and he was swinging from the heel please.
High fast pitch, Joseph failed to meet it.
He was really going, going for three or four that time.
Yeah, but he was going for more.
All right, two strikes, one, a bounder to shortstop, Eddie Miller handles the ball fast.
Here comes Keltner scoring, Miller's toss to Herman at second, forces Travis.
DiMaggio beat Herman's rather bad throw to McCormick, it pulled him off the bag,
and there's only one out on the play.
Instead of a double play ending the ball game,
Herman's throw from second to McCormick at first to try to complete the double,
pulled the first baseman off the bag and gave Joe DiMaggio a life at first.
Gordon moved over to third, the score is 5-4 in favor of the National Lakers.
A big huddle out there at the pitcher's mound with Ted Williams coming up.
And we'll see what the dope is.
First and third occupied, Williams has had one hit, a double,
has walked once, lied to center field and struck out.
Now the tying run, the person that Joe Gordon is on third.
First pitch to Williams, way outside, little high,
looks as though it might have possibly been a pitch out for Danning to take a peg at third base.
However, Lavagetto isn't paying much attention to the base runner,
he's protecting that territory.
Williams might push a hit down through there, playing right on the line between third and second.
While Eddie Miller, the shortstop, is deep and over near second.
Second baseman Herman up toward first, foul ball right over our heads, strike.
Count us one and one.
Two men gone in the ninth.
5-4 in favor of the National Lakers.
One strike and one ball, Ted Williams the batter, Danning out of the crouch,
Paso pitches high inside, ball two and Paso is asking umpire Babe Pennelly,
tossing a new ball, there's something wrong with that one, Babe does.
Claude gives this one a going over.
And this boys and girls is a ball game and has been one all afternoon.
A real all-star affair, they've done everything, made errors, good plays, hits, the pitch.
Williams hits a powering fly, it looks as though it's way up in there, way up, way up,
and the clap hits the top deck, the third deck, and this ball game is over.
With the American League coming through again, it'll count as a home run because the ball is up on the top deck
of the right field stand, everybody grabbing Ted, patting him on the back.
Joe Cronin has his hat off and is giving him a Dutch rub.
Artie Fletcher is also on his back and the kid really laced that one out.
Boy oh boy, it didn't go over the roof, but it hit the third deck barrier in right field, way up there, plenty high.
The third home run made in this ball game,
Archie Vaughan made two for the National Lakers and drove in for their five runs.
And Williams came along with this one to win the ball game, knocking in Gordon.
And Joe DiMaggio, and of course himself.
So that makes the totals for the ninth inning, two men out when the home run was hit, and the winning run scored.
Three, four runs, three hits, no error, and none left on base.
And the final score, the American Lakers, seven runs, 11 hits, three errors.
The American League, seven runs, 11 hits, three errors.
National League, five runs, ten hits, two errors.
The winning pitcher, Edgar Smith, are the Chicago White Sox, the last one in there.
And the loser, Claude Pesso, are the Chicago Cubs.
So Chicago was very prominent in this.
Ladies and girls, this game came to you through WWJ and W45D, and it was quite a ball game.
And now the American League has the edge on the Nationals, six games to three.
Started out today with five to three, now it's six to three.
And it looked for quite a while as though the National League was going to sort of upset the Dope Bucket,
because all the pregame dope was that the American League would have the power at the plate,
while the National League would have the better pitching.
However, up until this ninth inning, the National League not only had made more hits, but also more runs.
It looked as though they were going to come in there with a five to two victory.
After Frankie Hayes, first man up with a score of five, three in favor of the National League,
Frankie Hayes, first up, popped a towering fly to second baseman Billy Harmon.
Ken Keltner, then, of Cleveland Indians batted for Smith the pitcher and singled.
Joe Gordon kept it going with a single, Keltner stopping at second.
Then Travis walked, filling the bases.
Joe DiMaggio slapped a fast bounder to shortstop,
which ordinarily would have been turned into a double play and a victory for the National League.
Miller gathered up the ball all right, tossed to Herman at second, forcing Travis.
But Herman's throw was a bit wide to first base.
It pulled McCormick off the bag, DiMaggio going fast, hit it, before McCormick could get back or tag him,
and was safe, preventing a double play, on which Keltner scampered home from third.
Then they had a big consultation out around the mound as to what to do with Ted Williams,
with runners on first and third and two out.
Should we pitch to the kid, or shall we walk him and take a chance on Dominic DiMaggio,
who would have been the next batter up with the bases loaded?
They decided to pitch to Ted, and Ted took a crack at the third pitch,
hit it high against the top barrier, often right field,
a home run, scoring Gordon and DiMaggio ahead of him, ending the ball game,
with the American Leaguers winning 7-5.
The pitching summaries of this game, Whitlow Wyatt, who will take the National League first,
Whitlow Wyatt of the Brooklyn Dodgers started, worked two innings, allowed no runs, no hits,
struck out none and walked one. Paul Derenger followed him, worked for two,
gave up one run, two hits, struck out one and walked none.
Bucky Walters, also of the Cincinnati Reds, pitched two innings, gave up one run, three hits,
struck out two and walked two, and Pesso, Claude Pesso of the Chicago Cubs,
the last pitcher in there, worked the last three and was touched for five runs,
six hits, struck out two and walked one. He's the losing pitcher.
For the American League, Bob Feller, the Cleveland Indians, worked the first three,
allowed no runs, gave up one hit, struck out three and walked none.
Lefty Torrenton Lee of the Chicago White Sox, worked the next three, he gave up one run,
four hits, struck out none, walked none.
Sid Hudson pitched one inning and got himself into trouble in that seventh inning.
First man up, single, then Archie Vaughn hit the first of his two home runs,
scoring behind Slaughter, who had single.
Hudson got rid of the rest of them without any further scoring,
but his record for the one inning was two runs, three hits, struck out one and walked one.
Edgar Smith of the Chicago White Sox, pitched the eighth and ninth.
Smithy struck out the first man to face him, Slaughter,
and then Mr. Vaughn came through with his second home run in succession.
He struck out the first man, Pete Reesher.
Johnny Myers doubled off Smithy, and Smithy fanned Slaughter.
With two out and Myers on second, Archie Vaughn repeated his performance of the seventh inning
and homered off Smith to knock in Myers ahead of him.
That ended the run scoring for the Nationals.
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