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Mel Allen and Jim Britt (Baseball Announcers)
Because of the World Series broadcast that follows, Checkerboard Jamboree sponsored by the makers of Purina south will be canceled in certain areas today. Which Queen for a Day, jointly sponsored by the makers of Alka Seltzer and one a Day vitamins, the makers of Robin Hood flour and the makers of Philip Polish cigarettes will be delayed until immediately after the game. We take you now to Braves Field in Boston. Look sharp, feel sharp, be sharp. Use Gillette blue blade with the sharpest edges ever honed. Gillette's Cavalcade of Sports is on the air from Braves field in Boston, Massachusetts. Gillette presents the World Series for the 10th consecutive year. Good afternoon baseball fans everywhere. This is Mel Allen with Jim Britt greeting you for the Gillette Safety Razor Company as the Cleveland Indians and Boston Braves get set for the opening game of the 1948 Championship Classic. Fans for the tops in sports tune in Gillette's Cavalcade of Sports the year round. Every Friday night, Gillette broadcasts the major boxing bout of the week for the fistic fancy coast to coast. Also as they occur, Gillette airs leading events of turf diamond and gridiron. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it's been said many times in jest that the country could or should be given back to the Indians. Well today that quip has taken on an aura of reality for America truly has been taken by the Redskins, the Cleveland Indians and the Boston Braves. Many times have these warriors been to the well through the years, but it's been quite a long time between thirst punching pennant drafts. It was 1914 when the Boston Braves last headed the National League contingent. The dramatic surge from last place in midsummer to the top at curtain falling time. And then a spectacular sweep of a star studded Philadelphia Athletics team in the World Series. That's a story that has been repeated time after time after time. One of the greatest in baseball history, the warriors from the Lake Area reservation, the Cleveland Indians had gone hunting but wanting for an American league flag since 1920 when they knocked over the Brooklyn Dodgers in the Fall Classic. That was the series you remember, in which Wamby made that unassisted triple play. And so it's been 34 and 28 years respectively for these two clubs since they were last represented in this greatest of sports spectacles, the World Series. And today our wigwam is pitched on the bank of the Charles river in what has often been referred to as quaint or staid old Boston. But you can take it from us friends that baseball fans in these parts are just as rabid and sportsmanlike as any you'll find anywhere at any time. I know you're interested in the weather. Perhaps may ive from coast to coast might have received reports from the many members of the various press, associations and newspapers who are here in attendance that there was prediction of rain. There was. Everyone expected that the rain would be coming down today and that there would be a postponement of the opening game of the World Series. But somehow or other the weatherman has cooperated to a great extent, at least thus far since early this morning the sun was shining. However, at the moment the sun is not shining, but there are patches of blue around and about. There's a bit of a breeze blowing. It's somewhat cool, but not too cold. It's not quite cool enough for football weather almost and the ball players will be comfortable. The wind is blowing in from right field toward home plate the present time, so that left handed pull hitters will not be aided exactly by the wind. And we're going to give you the distances from home plate down the foul lines in a moment as we go about the ballpark and describe that for you. But let us say as we return to the weather that it looks as if we'll be able to get in nine innings without any trouble there. There are a few clouds beginning to move into the blue, but it appears that we'll be able to play baseball all the way. As we look around Braves field, we look off to the left and when we look to the left from our broadcasting booth, that's down the left field line, out over the left field fence, over the New York Central railroad tracks, and we see Benard harbor, the campus of Harvard University in the distance. And as we move around looking out across the center field fence where the Charles river floats by, we see Cambridge and Somerville. And off back of right field we see the skyline of downtown Boston. Getting back to Braves Field, the fans are being entertained at the moment by some antics on the playing field itself as the Cleveland Indians at the moment are taking infield practice and warming up are the starting pitchers for today, Johnny Sane of the Boston Braves, sensational right hander. And for the Cleveland Indians, realizing a dream of a lifetime, one of the greatest names in the history of baseball, Bobby Feller. Just a moment ago we saw something that sent our mind spinning back through the years. Chris speaker was talking to Lou Boudreau Lou Boudreau, the wonderful, peppery, smart, great manager of the Cleveland Indians, was talking, talking with Chris speaker, who managed the Cleveland ball Club in 1920, when Cleveland last won its pennant. We couldn't tell exactly what they were talking about, but you can imagine just about as well as we can. Chris was probably saying to Lou, just do the same thing, Lou, that you've been doing all year and you'll bring a World Series to Cleveland. A World Series championship, just as I had the good fortune to do back in 1920. On the other side, there's Billy Southworth, a veteran of many World Series campaigns. I remember broadcasting one World Series when Billy Southworth entered as the underdog, just as he has entered the underdog in this series. Cleveland, the favorite against the New York Yankees. It was in 1942, but with Johnny Beasley pitching sensational ball and the masterminding of another outstanding manager and a great handler of men and a keen strategist, Billy Southworth. The St. Louis Cardinals that year beat the Yankees in the World Series for an upset triumph. You never know what's going to happen in seven games, so why try to predict? All we can tell you is that around the hotels, wherever baseball men gather, there are those who predict anywhere from four to seven games. And that just about covers it all. Pitching here is the big thing in any short series. Billy Southworth has Warren Spahn to back up Johnny Sane. Lou Budreau perhaps has a little more depth to back up Bomb Feller. He has Gene Bearden and Bob Lemon. But you never know who might come out of the ranks to star in a short series. Somebody that you never expected, at least didn't anticipate to star. But on the other hand, these managers might have been grooming him over the past few weeks and they are tight lipped about it. So we'll just sit tight and watch what happens as the World Series unfolds between the Boston Braves and the Cleveland Indians. There's another striking parallel here. Jeff Heath, who gained stardom in the major leagues with the Cleveland Indians, had the misfortune to break an ankle and leg in Brooklyn just a few days before the 1948 season ended. Jeff Heath, now with the Boston Braves, who was looking forward to playing in his first World Series and particularly against his old teammates. Dame Fortune did not see fit to smile on Jeff. However, he had a big smile himself. When Cleveland beat the Boston Red Sox in the playoff game at Fenway park, he went into the clubhouse, crutches and all, and congratulated the men with whom he had played. There have been others who have come along since with whom he did not play. And then he stuck up his leg that had the cast on him, said, boys, go ahead and autograph this for me. And the parallel goes back to a guy named Rent smith from the 1914 team with the Boston Braves. That was that great team, you know, who came from last place around 4th of July to win the pennant. Red Smith broke his leg in similar fashion to Jeff Heath and against the same team against the Brooklyn Dodgers toward the end of the year and was unable to play in the series. And both of those men are out here today to watch the action. Jeff Heath, his heart of course, pounding, his heartbroken to a degree because he can't play. And Redsmith there to comfort him, to tell him about his own experience. And then we saw Hank GY a little while ago. Hank G. Is now with the New York Giants. And the crafty of coach was with that great braves team of 1914. And it's been wonderful just to watch all these men who have been invited by Mr. Lou Perini, owner of the Boston Braves. And a wonderful gesture. All the living members of the 1914 Braves team, the last to win the National League pennant and his invitation have come to watch the World Series. But here are the lineups, ladies and gentlemen, for the Cleveland Indians as we get ready for the more important business at hand. The start of the World Series. For the Cleveland Indians, it'll be Dale Mitchell leading off, playing left field. He hit.336 on the season. Larry Dobie will hit second place center field for the bending average of.301. Batting third, playing shortstop will be the manager, Lou Budreau, hitting at 3:55. In the cleanup spot will be Joe
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Mel Allen and Jim Britt (Baseball Announcers)
No stranger to World Series playing, but the first time that he has appeared in the fall classics since becoming a member of the Cleveland Indians, batting at 279, playing second base, hitting fifth is Kenny Keller, hitting at.298, third base. Following him in the batting order, playing right field, is waller Judney, who hit.257 on the season. Then comes Ed Robinson, first base, hit.252 on the year, batting eighth and catching. Jim Higgin, who lives in Lynn, Massachusetts. Nearby here, with a batting average of.248 and in the ninth spot in the batting order and pitching is Brownie Feller for the host Boston Braves. Leading off, playing right field, Tommy Holmes, hitting at.325, hitting second, playing shortstop, one of the sensations of the year, Alvin Dark, hitting at.322, batting third, playing first base. Touson, hitting at.251 in the cleanup spot and playing third base. Last year voted the most valuable Player in the national league. Elliott, hitting at.283. Bob Elliott. Marv Rickard will follow Elliott in the batting order. He received special permission to participate in the series after the injury to Jeff Heath, which reduced the outfielding strength of the Braves and was recalled in a hurry by manager Billy Southworth from Milwaukee. Marv Rickert, who at one time played in the major leagues with the Pittsburgh Pirates. My record hitting at.211. And then we'll come Bill Salkel heading at.244 during catching. Mike McCormick will place our field hitting at.299. He once played in the World Series for the Cincinnati Reds. And the guy that played in the World Series last year, but with a different club. And he's going to start today. And it's going to be interesting to see that little pepper pot in action again. Eddie Stankey, second base. Sitting at.315 and on the ninth spot in the banning order in pitching is Johnny Sane from Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Now, ladies and gentlemen, a national anthem. Sam. And with Johnny Sane, that completes the lineup, there go the Boston Braves pounding onto the field. Ladies and gentlemen, the umpires back the plate will be Bar of the National League. Summers of the American League at first base. Steward of the National League at second base. Greave of the American League at third base. The alternates, Caparello. The American League will be stationed down the left field line, left field foul line. And Pinelli of the National League will be stationed down the right field foul line. And now it's with a great deal of pleasure that I introduce to you your play by play announcer for the first four and a half innings of today's game. A man who knows these Boston Braves real well. He broadcasts their home games as well as those of the Boston Red Sox. It's a pleasure to introduce you now, ladies and gentlemen, to Jim Britt. Thank you, Mel. Good afternoon, everyone. John Saint is out on the mound, limbering up before throwing the initial pitch to left fielder Dale Mitchell. And Mel harder and Bill McKechnie are taking their posts in the coaches boxes at first base and third. But before the first game of this historic 1948 World Series gets underway, we pause 10 seconds for station identification. This is the Mutual Broadcasting System. Back at Brace Field. Umpire George Barr is dusting off home plate and he also is erasing the parallel lines of the batters box so that they will in no way interfere with the whiteness of the outside corners on which many a pitch may hang. Dale Mitchell batted.336 for Cleveland during the regular season. He comes from Normal, Oklahoma. He's the left fielder. There's a strong wind blowing in from the river Charles. An east wind, we call him in Boston. And it will take a mighty wallop by a left hander to hit home run territory. Johnny Sane winds up. He takes his stride. The first pitch. Ball outside. Third baseman Bob Elliott broke for the plate, thinking Mitchell might try to drop down a bunch. The outfield's disposition is slightly to the left. The right side of the infield is in a bit. Sane winds up again. Here's the second pitch and there's a drive to center field with Mike McCormick drifting to his own left waiting for it. One out. Mitchell lined out to Mike McCormack in left center field. In left field for the Braves, Marv Rickert playing his first World Series for the Bostonians. As a matter of fact, very few of the Braves have had World Series experience. Eddie Sankey is the only one in the batting order who is seated in an active role. The great Cleveland center fielder Larry Dobee of Norwalk, Ohio has a batting average of.301 and he's a left hander. He stands just a little open in the left handed batter's box. He has great power. The outfield is straight away. Here's the pitch. High curveball, ball one. No strikes. Every seat, of course, is filled. The park has been sold out long since. Sane gets his sign from Salkeld. He delivers. Ball two. Two and nothing. The two foul line umpires are standing just about 30ft from the right and left field fences. That was a move instituted by Commissioner Chandler. Time is being called and one of the ushers is being told by Bill Summers to get off the playing field and get back in the confined area of the field boxes along the right field Side. Two balls, no strikes. Elliott in fairly close. Here's the pitch and the curveball is high. Three or nothing. And the Braves partisans grow somewhat apprehensive. Down in the on deck area is the great Cleveland manager, Lou Boudreau. Doby sets himself for the pitch. It comes in for a strike called 3 and 1. Sane, slowed up just a little through a moderate speed pitch that was letter high. And Doby plants himself again. Now he takes a wide open stance, feet wide apart, sets himself for the three. One pitch with one out, same pitches, and there's a high pop foul. Elliot is chasing it, but the wind blows it into the third base. Stands for a three and two count. Three balls, two strikes. Before the game, the great comedian, acrobat, contortionist of the Cleveland Indians, Jackie Price, gave a very interesting demonstration. Suspended by his legs from the bleacher wall, he caught fly balls and returned them. 3 and 2. The count confronting same and Dobby. Here it is. There's a high fly ball to right center field. Mike McCormick has scarcely to move for it. He waits and he takes it. Kobe was 2/3 of the way to second base when the ball dropped into McCornick's glove. So the first two Cleveland batters, left fielder Dale Mitchell, center fielder Larry Doby, have flied out to center fielder Mike McCormick. And the great Cleveland manager is up. Lou Boudreau, runner up to Ted Williams in the American League batting championship. He single handedly sparked his Indians to two rallies last Sunday. He teamed with Bearden, Keltner and company to beat the Red Sox in the playoff. His batting average was.3,5 5. He's a right hander. He's in his crouch. Here's the pitch. Strike call. Curveball letter high. Lou comes from Harvey, Illinois and he was one of the greatest athletes the Illini ever produced. Shane delivers outside one and one. One ball, one strike. The experts were just about even in their choice of whether or not Sane or Feller would be the winning pitcher in this battle of aces. Johnny winds up, strides and there's a fly ball down the left field line. It's being chased by Ricketts and he takes it in foul territory. Just crossing the line. The foul ball hit the Rickett. So Cleveland goes down in 1, 2, 3. First inning order. The score is nothing. Nothing. Fans. For a double header and shaving value. Get Hepta Gillette blue blades. They're double edged for double economy. 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Mel Allen and Jim Britt (Baseball Announcers)
was no runs, no hits, no errors. No one left for Cleveland in the first half of the first inning as Johnny Sane induced Mitchell Dobie and manager Lou Boudreau to fly out. Two of them to centerfield, the other just outside the foul line and left to Mark Rickard. Rickard, you know, was declared eligible because of the injury to Cafe Tommy Holmes. Thomas Kelly Holmes, Brooklyn born Boston Brave, will be the first batter. He finished the regular playing season with a batting average of.325 and has long been regarded as one of the most difficult men to strike out in baseball. He's a left handed batter, he gets to all fields. Third baseman Ken Kelner is playing in fairly close. Mitchell is in left field, Doby in center and Judnick in right the infield for the Indians. Robinson, Gordon Boudreau, Keltner. Bob Seller gets set to pitch to Jim Hegan. Here's the pitch, low and inside. He threw a fast curveball, it broke down near the ankles and the count is one ball. Billy Southworth is the coach at third base and Johnny Cooney, an old time pitcher with a famous hesitation delivery. A pitcher outfielder is coaching it first. One ball, no strikes, no score as the Braves lead off batter. Holmes waits for the pitch. Ball two. Fastball outside, two or nothing. The Mr. Chandler's box is immediately to the right of the screen and misses. Boudreau is seated back of the Braves dugout. Mrs. Southworth is seated back while the Braves dugout naturally enough and the Braves 1914 stars are here, and so are some of the great old Clevelanders. Two balls, no strikes. Here's the pitch. Fastball caught the inside corner, called strike two and one. The umpires are positioned at first, second and third, back of the plate and on the two foul lines in the interest of accuracy. And the wind continues to blow in strongly from right center field. Holmes waggles his bat. Feller takes a big wind up. He fires one, and there's a drive in center field. Doby goes over to his own right, and he takes it. The ball was crisply hit, but it was an easy chance. Holmes flies to center, just as Mitchell did to lead off for the Indians. One man out. And the great young rookie shortstop of the Braves comes up. He is Alvin Dart, the former Louisiana State University star from Lake Charles, Louisiana. With a batting average of.322, he was largely responsible for the success of the Braves in the National League. And he drew high praise from rival managers and players alike. He stands almost straight away, feet wide apart. They play him fairly short in the outfield. Swing and a miss. Feller fired a fastball. This is his first look at Bob Feller, by the way, outside of the game he watched at Fenway park to decide the American League championship on Monday. One strike to count. Feller takes that big wind up. He strides, pitches. And there's a buttered foul down the third baseline, fielded by Billy Southworth. He decided to catch Ken Keltner napping, but the ball was fouled by about 10ft. The count is two strikes. Someone called the attention of George Barr to the fact that Dark's right foot was not in the batter's box. But the umpire looked it over very carefully and indicated that it was one of the Cleveland coaches. Two strikes to count. No score. In the last half of the first inning of the 1948 World Series. Teller gets set, he pitches. And there's a foul ball into the right field pavilion. Two strikes, the count. Dark swung late on a fastball that was outside. Two strikes to count. One man out. Feller is studying the sign given him by Jim Hegan. The infield is straight away. Here's the pitch. And there's a curveball that missed the outside corner. Feller stepped to his right and fired a crossfire. One ball, two strikes. The first four batters in this game that failed to hit for the Indians. Mitchell, Doby and Boudreaux went out and Tommy Holmes lines to Doby to start the inning for the Braves. Now it is one and two on Dark. The Pitch. There's a ground ball that goes to Eddie Robinson. Robinson decides to beat him in the race with the bag. And he does. Robinson had to slide into the bag at first base for the decision. Dark grounds out unassisted to Eddie Robinson on an extremely close play with Robinson sliding into the bag to beat Dark, who really got up speed as he neared first. Two men out and Earl Parkerson up. Snohomish Washington. Earl Averills first place had a batting average of.251 this year. He wears eyeglasses as do some of the other players in the contest. Two men out. Mel Harder of Cleveland does Joe Tucker of Cleveland also. Torgerson wants the rosinbag and Bob Elliott who was in the on deck area throws it up to him. And then he steps back into the left handed batter's box again. Darks out with the first infield chance of the game. The first ground ball that was handled in fair territory. The first four men to face the pitchers went out on fly balls. Two men out. Jorgerson sets himself and the first pitcher, the curved strike. Calls one strike to count. Feller is one of the all time greats of the game. He missed 19 victories this year. His record was 19 and 15. He takes a big wind up, delivers and there's a foul ball grounded to the right of the plate. And first base coach Johnny Cooney is fielding it. The count is two strikes. As Mel told you, the consensus varied all the way from a four game victory for the Cleveland Indians to a six game victory for the Boston Braves. A seven game contest. Even up. But in a short World Series, it's almost impossible to speculate accurately. In 1914 the Braves were underdogs, but they won four in a row. The first team ever to do it. Feller gets set. He throws. Strike three called. He broke a curveball over the plates to strike out Torgerson. No runs, no hits, no errors and none left. Neither team has put a runner on. In the first inning of play. George Parr comes back on the plate to get some fresh baseballs. Bill Salkeld trots out to his catching position. Billy Sopworth is a believer in the two platoon system. Consistently all season long he has thrown left handers and I guess right handers. An announcement is just being made calling the attention to the fact that 31 of the players in this World Series classic, 31 of the Indians and the Braves started under the American Legion Junior baseball program. And here as guests of the Boston Braves and the Cleveland Indians today are the 1948American League. American Legion Junior National Champions. The Trenton, New Jersey team. They were all out on the field getting their fill of autographs. And who knows, many of them may someday be playing on this and on other major league fields. Because all told, about 200 major leaguers got their start in the program. Joe Gordon, the ex Yankee and the great Cleveland second baseman will come up. He's a Portland Oregonian with a batting average of.279. Regarded by many as one of the great second basemen of all time. He stands deep in the box. Johnny Sane throws the first pitch and it's a strike called that caught the outside corner belt high. Here's the wind up the pitch. Foul ball that's drifting into the first base. Stands out of play in the counter strike two. Bill McKechnie is the coach at third base. Mel Harder is doing the coaching at first base. And Harder, by the way, was the batting practice pitcher for the Indians prior to game. The outfield is deep to the left with Gordon up. No score in the game and so far both pitchers have pitched. One, two, three, baseball. Sane is all set. He delivers. Strike called. Strike three. A curveball across the outside corner. Gordon took it. So both Feller and Sane have a strikeout. Ken Keltner comes up. Keltner put the skids under the Red Sox last Monday with a three run home run that broke an existing one run tie and gave the Indians a 41 lead, which they never relinquished. He's from Milwaukee and has an average of.299. He's a hard hitting right hander. He lets the ball go by inside. One ball, a fastball. The outfield is still to the left with Keltner up. Here's the wind up by saying he pitches overhand and high. He threw a fastball. The count is two and nothing. One man out on the second inning. Third baseman Bob Elliott plays in as he should, about 10ft inside the line. Kelner sets himself for the pitch. And he takes a strike. A curveball. Two balls, one strike to count. Sane won 24 ball games. He's the top winner in all of Major League Baseball this year. Johnny delivers. There's a foul ball that goes right back into the press box. The first souvenir to go to the boys in typewriter row during the ball game. Nothing. Nothing to score so far. Neither team has forced a break. The pitching is holding up, but the game is in its very early stages. The second inning with one out and none on. Here's the pitch. There's a drive that goes over Elliot's head for the first hit of the ball game. Rickard throws it into second base and holds Kelner to a single. Only because the outfield was stationed to the left was that blow kept from going for extra bases. So there is the first hit of the 1948 World Series by third baseman Ken Keltner of Cleveland. And Walt Judnick, a left handed batting right fielder, comes up. Judnick is from San Francisco. He also has played first base for the Indians this year. The outfield moves to the right a bit. The pitch outside. One ball, no strikes. Bill McKechnie hollered. There he goes. Just as soon as the pitch came over. But there was no attempt made by Keltner to run. The Braves infield has moved into the halfway position. Hopeful double play. The stretch by Sane. The pitch. Ball two. A curveball that was a little on the inside, so it's two or nothing. First blood in the hip department by Keltner. He takes a lead off first base. Sane delivers. Strike call. Curveball that curved over after Judnik had stepped away from it. Eddie Spanky cups his mouth with his glove and shots some instructions to Al Dark, the shortstop. Sane is taking a stretch and he throws quickly to first base. But there's no tag. Keltner got back and now Sane concentrates on the batter again. The pitch to Judnick. There's a drive down the right field line. Foul ball. That was ruled foul by the right field foul line umpire, Babe Finelli. It was a wicked line drive. The Indians were trying to try to hit and run. And that ball was very nearly in there for extra bases. The field boxes out in right field will keep some balls perhaps from going all the way into the right field corner where they rolled up Tarpaulin Restaurant. And similarly, the field boxes out in left field will serve as a protection. Two and two, Judd nick the batter. Keltner on. One out for the Indians in the second. The pitch from sane inside. And there's the first full count of the ball game. Three and two. A great many World Series first of 1948 are bound to be registered in the early innings of play. The weatherman was wrong. Fortunately. He predicted rain. There's a 3:2 pitch. The runner goes. There's a drive to right field. Tommy Holmes makes the play and he throws to first base to chase Keltner back. So there are two men out with Keltner returning to first base as Judnick hammered a hard line drive that was taken by Tommy Holmes. With Judnik having Flied out to right field. Eddie Robinson, the first base win. He batted.252 this year. He's a left hander and comes from Paris, Texas. He's a tall, likable, husky batter who is not unmindful of Hal Trotsky, who once played first base for the Indians. Sane. Delivers. Strike called. He threw a fast one. He has a good fast curveball and an excellent sidearm curveball which he delivers on rare occasions. Usually good. Control the stretch. There's a ground ball to Ferguson. He knocks it down, steps on first and Robinson is retired. Unattended. No run, one hit. No one left for the Indians. The score at the end of an inning and a half. Nothing. Nothing. Anybody who grows as tough whiskers as Leo Durocher of the Giants does should know a thing or two about razor blades. So, folks, here's Leo Durocher. Fans, this is one man's opinion, but in my experience, Gillette Blue blades are far and away the easiest shaving time there is. Care to recommend that Gillette dispenser, Leo? Yes, sir. It's a marvelous convenience, fellows. A handy plastic case loaded with blades. When you want one, you push with your thumb and there it is. Unwrap, men. The Gillette Dispenser makes blade changing a breeze with any Gillette razor. 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Mel Allen and Jim Britt (Baseball Announcers)
Bob Elliott will be the first batter for the Boston Braves in the second inning. In two innings, the Cleveland Indians have no runners, one hit, no errors, one runner left. The only hit was that of Ken Keltner with one man out. A single to left in the second, but he was left stranded. Bob Elliott was last year's most valuable player in the National League. He batted.283 this season for the Braves. He's a right hander from San Diego, California. He stands with A very closed stance on the outfield plays in to pull the ball. Bob Feller gets ready. He pitches. Foul tip. Robert went right after that first one. In five of the last six years, Elliott has driven in 100 runs or more. He just did make it this season, driving in his hundredth run in the final game against Leo Durocher's Giants. By the way, one strike to count. Feller is, as always, a deliberate workman. Baseball is his profession and he treats it like a business. He pays meticulous attention to detail. He goes into that big wind up, he strides, pitches a curveball low outside and the count is one and one. Rabid Robert the Van Meter, Iowa farm boy, now from Waukegan, Illinois. Johnny Cooney and Billy Southworth are coaching at first and third. The outfield swung to the left. Kelner fairly deep at third base with Elliot up. Gordon over to the right of second. The pitch. There's a drive that goes toward right field. Coming in fast is Judnick and he takes it. It looked for the moment as though he misjudged it and it also sounded like a broken bat. Elliott flyed out to right field. Marv Rickert R I, C, K, E, R, T, who was recalled from Milwaukee after the injury to Jeff east down at Brooklyn, was declared eligible as a result of a special ruling by the Commissioner of Baseball with the full approval of the generous Cleveland Indians. He lives in the Tacoma, Washington area and has batted.211 during his short time with the Tribe. He's a left handed, bats from a crouch and he hits a high fly ball toward right center field. Judnick is under it, but Doby calls for it. And Doby takes was easier for him because of the position of the wind. Two men out as Elliott and Rickard have flied to right into center and left handed. Hitting catcher Bill Sawkell comes up like Lou Boudreau. He's wearing a turtleneck sweater. Several of the players are. Because of the chill air here at Brayfield today, there's no score in the game. Ken Keltner so far has accounted for the Cleveland hit. Saul Kelt is from Los Angeles. He batted.244 during the regular season of play. He stands with an open stance deep in the box, left handed. The pitch strike called Feller through a fast one to open up. Mike McCormick is the on deck batter. The outfield is just a shade to the right and the infield isn't deep on the left side. But Gordon and Robinson are back near the edge of the outfield grass. Between first and second. The wind up by Feller. The pitch. Foul tip. He got that with the very end of the bat. Two strikes, the count all the way. The boxes are covered with red, white and blue bunting. And a few Cleveland Indian and Boston Braves pennants are in abundance. As Mel Allen told you, the country has literally been given back to the Indians, baseball wise, because both the Indians and the Braves wear tribal insignia. Two strikes, Feller pitches. Strike three. Swinging a fastball. And that is the second strikeout for Bob Feller. No runs, no hits, no errors, none left. This has been an even ballgame so far, except that Ken Keltner has dented the hit column for the Cleveland Indians in the first half of the third inning of a scoreless World Series opener. Jim Hegan of Lynn, Bob Feller of Waukegan and Dale Mitchell of Normal, Oklahoma, will be the batters in two innings. The Indians have sent seven men up to the plate and the Boston Braves have sent seconds. Practically every name well known to baseball is here today. And probably the most interesting concession to sentiment, a tribute to the 1914 Boston Braves, of whom Hank Gowdy, the popular coach of the New York Giants, is one. George Stallings Jr. Is here representing his late father and such grand old timers as Rabbit Moranville, Red Smith and the restaurant. Jim Higgin is extremely popular in New England because he lives in metropolitan Boston. He has a batting average of.248 and he is one of the most durable receivers in the business. He did the catching for Cleveland with very, very little relief. He worked 144 games for the Indians this year. He's a right hander. Same pitches to him. And it is ball one. Curveball. Had just missed the inside. Same shook his head. Eddie Stankey is positioned out on the grass about 15ft to the right of second base for Hegan, figuring that he's likely to pull one back through the middle. Same pitches. Foul tip, right into Bill Sawkell's glove. That was a fastball. And the count is one and one. The outfield is deep to the left with left fielder Marv Rickert playing right down under the big scoreboard. Here's the pitch. There's a ground ball. It goes to Elliott. He fumbles the ball, can't find it. Keegan is safe at first. No throw was made. It is an error for third baseman Bob Elliott. Ed Burns, one of the official scorers, just gave us the decision. Bob not only fumbled the ball, it bounded up over his head as it hit his glove. But he couldn't Find the ball. He looked around in rather bewildered fashion. Bob Feller is up. He had a season's batting average of.095. His earned run average is.333. He's a big right hander. They're looking for the bunch. And it's a foul ball. He tried to butt it, fouled it back. Torgerson was just 15ft in front of the plate when the ball was fouled. So the first error of the ball game is charged to Bob Elliott. It was a routine grounder, but it was a hard one. It took a high hop about letter high and bounded out of Elliott's glove. Sane takes his stretch. There's no one out. Here's the pitch, and it's a high one as they're trying to keep Feller from punting the ball. 1 and 1. Both Sane and Feller have excellent fastballs. And when they throw a good fast one close to the batter, it's difficult to punt the ball. Here's the pitch and there's a foul ball. As he tried to punt it, it just turned the bat in his hands and went to the right of the plate. One ball, two strikes to count. Bob Feller looks down the third baseline to get his sign from coach Bill McKechnie, who doubtless has already given it to him. Eddie Sankey came in to have a brief conference with Johnny Sane. The infield is in a bit on the grass. Third baseman Bob Elliot in close the count. One ball, two strikes. Here's the pitch. Strike three. Swinging curveball. Half three got Feller into a one and two hole. Zane served him and the two pitchers have two strikeouts each. One man out. Left fielder Dale Mitchell up. His season's average was.336 and his first time up, he lined out to center fielder Mike McCormick of the Braves. Dale is a left hander and he was one of the most potent factors in Cleveland's tenant drive. Same pictures to him outside. Ball one. George Barr is working back of the plate and Bill Stewart at second because bars the senior of the two and the other base umpires are Bill Summers and Bill Greave. The pitch. There's a high infield pop up. Elliott calling for it in foul territory to the left of third base. And he takes it. A foul ball taken by Elliot just outside the third base coaching box for the second out with perfect support, the side would have now been retired. But because of the error that opened the inning, permitting Hegan to reach first base, Larry Dolby now must be retired by Johnny Sane. Dolby fired out to centerfield his first time up. He hit a monumental home run this season at Washington and Griffith Stadium, about which they're still talking in the nation's capital. He has tremendous straightaway power. He's a left handed batter. The first pitch. Curveball High. Ball 1. Two men out. No score in the game. Four goose eggs already adorned the scoreboard. Keltner has the game's only hit. The stretch. There goes the runner. The pitch is outside and the throw is not in time. And Hegan steals. He got a good lead on Johnny Sane. He stole that base on the pitcher, not the catcher. By the time Salkeld had drilled his throw to Al Dark, there was no time for the tag. Egan had already slid in with the first stolen base of the 1948 World Series. Two balls, no strikes to count on Doby. Egan takes the lead off second. There's a ground ball that goes to Al Dark. He's in fast. The throw to first. That's all for the Indians in the third inning. Doby grounded out six to three, short to first. No runs, no hits, one error, one left. 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Mike McCormick will be the lead operator for the Boston Braves going into the last half of the third inning. Mike was born in Angels camp, California, seen at the famous Jumping Frog Derby, and he lives in Ventura. His season's batting average missed the.300 mark by just one point. He batted.299. He's the center fielder. Stands feet close together and he crowds the plate a bit. Bob Feller gets his sign from Jim Hegan and Rapid Robber takes his wind up. He pitches and There's a high fly ball going to short stop going to shortstop. Boudreaux back under it and Lou took it. He very the second batter of the inning, Eddie Stankey. A pop to Bob Elliott at third base. And we pick up the action with Johnny Sain batting a fast call. Strike one strike to count.
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Mel Allen and Jim Britt (Baseball Announcers)
This game has started out the way the real baseball fans like to see. World Series competition get underway with two pitchers on even turns. The breaks later perhaps to decide it. Here comes foul ball that goes back into the crowd and the count is two strikes. It was fouled off to the right of the play. Cooney and Southworth are the coaches for the Braves at first and third, while for the Indians they are consistently Mel harder and Bill McKechnie. The outfield is set a little to the left. Two strikes, two men out, no base runners for the Braves in the third. The wind up. Here's the pitch and there's a high foul ball to the right of first base. Robinson is chasing it, the wind is carrying it. And he makes a nice catch and then sends himself off against the retaining wall of the boxes. A 1, 2, 3 inning for feller. No runs, no hits, no errors, none left as Payne fouls to first. At the end of three innings there is no score. Now we pause 10 seconds for station identification. This is the Mutual Broadcasting System. This is W New York, the Mutual station that brings to the World Series and other top sports events the year round. This is Jim Britt back at Brave Field in Boston where on the top of the fourth Johnny Fane will have to pitch his way by Boudreaux, Gordon and Keltner. Cleveland shortstop, second baseman and third baseman. Three quarters of a very potent infield. The last time Cleveland won an American League championship was back in 1920. And in the series that followed they beat Brooklyn in in five out of seven games. That was a great series. In all the timers will remember the unaffected triple play by Bill Warant and Elmer Smith's grand slam and Stanley Ki's free. Five hitters. Boudreau fouls to left field. His last time at that. He bats from a peculiar right handed crouch. Johnny Sane fires one and there's a high foul ball that's drifting out of play into the sand for strike one. That dropped right out of the bunting of one of the flags that flanks the first base Skyview seat. They have Skyview seats at Brace Field. It is not a double deck affair. One strike to count. Zane, get your sign. The outfield is set to the left. Here comes close and fast for a ball. Boudreaux got his head out of the way and the count is one and one blue posed with the very attractive Mrs. Boudreau with her orchid and all. Just before the game, the pitch. A high foul ball that's drifting into the first base stands out of play. One ball, two strikes. The newsreel men are all atop the press box. So that actually there are three levels from the spectator and press coverage point of view. But it is a single deck structure and there are no center field or left field bleachers. The only bleachers is called the jury box out in right field and it holds only 1800. One ball, two strikes to count. Boudreaux waits for the pitch. And he strikes out A curveball letter high. Boudreaux struck out. That is the third strikeout the same. Here's Joe Gordon. He was called out on a strike. Curveball had caught the outside corner his last time. One man out. Joe Gordon the second baseman up. Nobody on in the Cleveland fourth inning. Gordon hit the ground foul down the third baseline foul by not much, about four or five. Five feet, that's all. One strike, no score in the game. Ken Keltner singled in the second inning. And in the third inning, Keegan reached on an error by Elliott and stole second. He's the only man so far to have reached second base. The outfield is deep to the left, the infield over to the left. Same pitches and there's a long foul ball that goes into the left field pavilion. That's the longest ball of the ball game. That would have been all the way out of the ballpark had he not pulled it so much. Two strikes. Tanky is playing about 20ft to the right of second base. Sane winds up, he fires one and there's a ground ball that goes by dark for a single to left center field. And Gordon has the second Cleveland hit of the ball game. The throw in goes to the shortstop. He just leaned into one. Ken Keltner, the battery. That's the second hit. Keltner single to left. His last time up, he hit a line drive over the head of Bob Elliot. Gordon leads off first. Inside that one. Very nearly hit Keltner. He had to spin to get out of the way. He was trying to take a toehold and same threw one close to the whiskers. One ball, no strikes. Cleveland has two hits. The Braves have committed one error and Hegan has stolen one bait. But it's nothing. Nothing. Fourth inning. One on, one out. Here's the pitch to Keltner. And there's a drive down the left field line. And it's a foul ball by about 8 inches. And there is one of the reasons why the commissioners insisted on foul line umpires. The third base umpire, Bill Green, gave the sign, but so did the left field umpire, Joe Paparoa. That was outside by about 8 inches. Keltner missed an extra base hit, and it conceivable that Cleveland just missed the first run of the ball game. Gordon had started to go and the count now is 1 and 1. Kelner season's average was.299. He hit his 31st home run in the playoff game at Fenway park on Monday. There's the stretch by Fain. The pitch. Strike calls. Curveball one and two. Gordon is being given his running directions by Mel Harder. Harder. Looks toward the dugout. There's a set by saying Gordon leads off first. Here's the pitch. And there's a foul ball down the left field line. Fouled by a great many feet. Rickard went over and it dropped into the field boxes. And the usual scramble followed. It's a scoreless World Series opening game. We're in the first half of the fourth inning and the only activity so far has been produced by the Indians from an offensive point of view with two hits and cashing in. One brave error, briefly. One ball, two strikes. The pitch. Foul ball. Back into the press group. 1 and 2. Red Barber scooped up. That, by the way, a souvenir. A souvenir baseball. One ball, two strikes to count. Gordon leads off first. There he goes. Strike three. It's a strike three and a stolen base. There goes a throw to first base, but that's just a precaution. For an instant, I think the fans suspected that was a foul ball. But the plate umpire, George Barr, very alertly said, no foul. Strike three. But the ball was dropped by Sawkill and Gordon is credited with a stolen base. That's the fourth strikeout for Sane. Walt Judnick is the batter. Judnick is the left hander. His first time up, he lined out to right fielder Tommy Holmes. So for the second time, the Indians have a runner on second. Here's the pitch. Strike. Called the curveball. So far, both pitchers have been an excellent form. Judd Nick season's average was.257. He's deep in the box. There's the pitch low. And he fell away from it one and one, saying tried to tease him to go after a bad curveball. A low one. One ball, one strike. Cleveland so far has stolen two bases. One base was stolen on Sane. The other when a third strike. The pitch. There goes a fly ball to right field. Tommy Holmes is coming in under it and it should be easy for him. Out number three, as Gutrick for the second time flies to Homes. No runs for the Indians in the fourth. One hit, no errors, one left and a stolen base by Gordon. The score is nothing. Nothing. You expect Gillette, with factories throughout the world and unmatched technical knowledge and facility to make shaving as easy and convenient as possible in order to maintain leadership. Naturally, Gillette technicians work constantly to improve Gillette razors and blades. 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Feller is an artist, a baseball pitching artist, and the coordination with which he works is beautiful to watch. He's a magnificently conditioned athlete and he regards baseball as a highly successful profession. He pitches, there's a ground ball right back to him. He turns around, waits, throws the first for the out he made, Tommy run took plenty of time. That's his first success. Holmes grounding out to the mound and shortstop Alvin Dark comes up. Dark is one of the fastest men in baseball. His first time at that. He very nearly beat out a hit. But Eddie Robinson slid into the bag after fielding it unassistedly. One man out and unarmed. The outfield is playing Dark straight away. The wind up by Feller. The pitch fastball for a strike.
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Mel Allen and Jim Britt (Baseball Announcers)
To the Feller fireball. Let's came over. Let her high. Bob hasn't been close to walking anyone so far and has two strikeouts. He struck out Ferguson on a called strike in the first and Sawfeld went down swinging in the second. Here's the wind up. Dark sets himself and he hit the ground ball. It goes to Gordon. Gordon comes up with it. There's a quick throw to first for the out. Nice play. That ball was about as hard hit as any of the Braves had hit. But it was fielded flawlessly by the great Cleveland second baseman Earl Torgerton. Left handed first baseman up. He was called out on strikes as Feller sneaked a curveball over the inside on him. His first time at that and first inning. Seller has retired 11 consecutive Braves. The outfield moves around to the left a little with Ferguson up because of the wind blowing in the pitch outside. That was an overhand curveball. Lou Boudreau, you know, was the originator of the Ted Williams shift. And he seems to have the knack for placing his infielders with an almost uncanny premonition as to where the ball is hitting. That's been largely responsible. The pitch fastball moving ferguson out of there. 2. And oh, Torgy steps back in again. His boyhood idol was Earl Averill, the Earl of Snohomish. They both Came from the same town, but now Torgerson resides in Natick, Massachusetts. Feller hasn't assigned it yet. Hegan is doing his catching from a crouch. He straightens up just a little. Here's the pitch. Ball three. There's the first three and nothing count Bob has had in the ball game. Two men out for the Braves in the fourth inning and Torgerson has a count of three balls. No strikes. Feller rubs up the COVID of the ball, spins it in his glove a little. The Feller wind up and the pitch. Strike called 3 and 1, like threading an eagle. Bob Elliot, the on deck batter. So far Cleveland has had two baserunners on second. They both got there by stealing. Jim Hegan was the first, Joe Gordon was the second. But neither team has put a runner as far as third. Three balls, one strike. Jorgison bends his knees slightly, bats from a left handed crouch. Here it comes. Ball four. And there's the first Boston baseline. It is also the first baseline balls of the series. Bob Elliott comes up. He flied out to right field at last time. Elliott is the number four man in the batting. His nickname, as far as his teammates are concerned, is Mr. Team. A tribute to his Most Valuable Player award of last year. Two men out. Jorgensen is a very fast base runner. So you may speculate on whether or not Billy Southworth will tell him to try to pilfer a base and set up a run. He was thrown out only once this year. He stole his first 18 bases without interference. Time called. Elliot throwing some dirt onto the handle of the bat, then drying his hands on his uniform trousers. Feller pitching from a stretch for the first time. Strike called fastball. He threw that one. Let her high. Ferguson is being held close at the bag by first baseman Eddie Robinson. There's no score in the last half of the fourth inning. Keltner and Gordon have the only hits of the game. Feller takes his stretch. Torgerson leads off first base. He draws a throw, but there's no tag. And Robinson returns it to the mound as Keltner comes over to back up. That's an automatic task assigned to a third baseman. There's another throw to first base, a little quicker this time, but still no tag. Feller, realizing that Ferguson is capable of stealing a base if he's given too much of a lead on the pitcher's throw, is trying to keep him close. One strike. Ferguson has a long lead. Swing and a miss. Fastball. Feller really fired that one. Feller has looked more and more like the Bob Feller of old. In the last month and a half, you know, he won seven straight ball games and came a cropper only against the great Hal Neuhauser. That was what forced the playoff at Fenway Park. But Gene Bearden pitched a magnificent five hitter and the Indians played great. Team ball to win. Going away. Two strikes account there, go to bluffs. Comes back and it's high and wide. Ball one. Ferguson broke and then immediately dug in and returned. One ball, two strikes. There's a little track worn in on the first baseline about 30ft where Target has been dancing out towards second and then coming back, back as the situation demands. Feller has thrown over twice to try to keep him close. There are two men out, fourth inning and no score. There goes Ton. It's outside. There's the throw. Stolen base. The throw was on the right side of second and high. Boudreau took it, but Ton has stolen a base. The third stolen base of the game. The Indians have stolen two. The count on Elliot, two and two. Egan didn't have much of a chance to make a good throw on it because Seller's pitch was so wide. The roar of the crowd tells you, of course, that the majority of the fans here at Braves Field is naturally a brave crowd. There are baseball figures from all over the United States. And when we move out to that huge lakefront stadium in Cleveland, the roar will be even greater when the Indians attempt to rally. Targets are now on second. Two men out, two and two on Elliot. Here's the pitch. There's a fly ball to left field. It should be easy for Mitchell. He's running over toward the foul line and he takes it. He had to step because the wind tried to break it down. No runs, no hits, no errors. One walk, a stolen base and a runner left. So at end the. At the end of four innings of play, the Cleveland Indians have two hits, the Braves have an error. The Braves have left one runner and Cleveland has left three. Going into the first half of the fifth inning of a good pitchers duel, Robinson, Egan and Feller, the last three men in the Cleveland batting order, will be up for a rousing time. Get your friends together Friday night and enjoy a corking good scrap on Gillette Cavalcade of Sports. Yes, for the major boxing event of the week, tune in Gillette's Cavalcade of Sports Friday night. Consult your newspaper for local time and station. I know that Mel and the other members of our broadcasting crew will agree when I tell you that the setup here physically, as far as broadcasting is concerned is as good as there is. Men who have broadcast World Series from all the stadia in the United States were overwhelmed when they saw the way the Braves had set us up. The view is perfect. Eddie Robinson grounded the first his last time. He's a left hander. The pitch. Foul ball back into the screen for strike one. Stalkel lost that for an instant. Looked up in the air, thinking the ball might be directly overhead. Eddie Robinson is a tall, husky Texan and he's an excellent leather man. He's wearing a bandage on his right thumb. Lou Boudreau is wearing a bandage on his right thumb. Jammed it slightly, but insists it's not serious. One strike to count. Here's the pitch from Sane. And there goes a little fly ball to right field. Holmes coming in fast for it. And he takes it. Nice running catch. Looked for an instant as though that might be a Texas leaguer. But the wind held it up so that Holmes was able to run over towards the right field foul line and grab a. So Robinson flies out to right field. He has no hits in two trips. And Jim Hegan, the Cleveland catcher, comes out. He got a life in the third inning when Elliott booted his ground ball. And then he stole second and was left. He's a right hander. Payne delivers. There goes a drive to left for a hit. The third Cleveland hit of the game. Hegan is rounding first. The throw in from Rickert makes it a single. That's the 30th Sane has yielded in four and a third innings. So Hegan is the only man in the game who is quite reached. And Bob Feller comes down the path to the Pune of the applause. He touched his cap as it started. With an opportunity to enhance his own cause. His first time up, Bob tried to sacrifice. And then with a count, one ball, two strikes, he struck out. He's a right hander. There's the pitch. There's the bunny. And it goes there. The throw at the first base with Torgeson taking it for a sacrifice. Egan going to second. The ball was just inside the third baseline. It was fielded by Sauk Hill, thrown to Torguson, the first baseman. And that is the third Indian to reach second. Egan has twice reached. And Dale Mitchell, left handed, batting left fielder, is up with a runner on second. Two men out. Mitchell flies center fielder Mike McCormick. His first time and his second time in the third inning. His foul popup was taken by third baseman Bob Elliott, so he has none. And two. He's left handed. Sane stretches, pitches, overhand curveball Outside. Ball one. One ball, no strikes. The outfield is set to the left. There's a wide open hole in right center field. Takes a stretch, he delivers it. And there's a fly ball that's drifting toward left center field. Rickard is under it, the left fielder. And he takes it to retire the side. No runs, one hit, no errors, one left. At the end of four and a half innings of play, the score is nothing. Nothing. Believe me, Shaving's really something. When you prepare your whiskers with Gillette Shaving cream and ease them off with a Gillette Blue blade and your Gillette razor. Gillette Shaving Creams, both lather and brushless, remove moisture resisting oil from your beard almost instantly. Every bristle gets soaked through and through pronto. That makes shaving a cinch. Now listen to this. Both Gillette Brushless and gillette lather contain K34. 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Mel Allen and Jim Britt (Baseball Announcers)
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We're at something concerning the style delivery that Bobby Feller is employing. That's just a guess from this point high above the playing field. At any rate, we're all set to go. Now in the last half of the fifth inning, the scoreless ball game. And leading off. Leading off for the Boston Braves in the last half of the fifth inning is Marv Rickett, left hand hitter who flied to center in the second inning. There's a boy who never realized he'd be playing in a World Series this year. Because of Jeff Heath's injury. Rickert was recalled by the Braves and given special permission. Bump Bella throws outside the fastball and the count is one ball. No strike on Marv Rickett, batted over.300 with Milwaukee in the American association, went home. Billy Southworth sent out a hurried call to come on, finish up the season with us. Then he got special permission from baseball Commissioner Chandler and with the consent of the Cleveland Indians to participate in the World Series. There's a pitch that's cut on foul. Back to the screen. Strike one. Count is even up at one and one. Marvick at the batter with Bill Saw, Kel on deck and Mike McCormick. No score. Last half of the fifth inning. First game for the 1948 World Series. A game that has been primarily a pitchers duel thus far. A game that has not been productive of too many fireworks, too many exciting plays. But they'll come. Kind of a ball game that suddenly would explode and the crowd will roar. Bobby Feller into the lineup, delivers. Marv Rickard swings and lines 1 pass first out of the right field for a base hit. Judney goes over, fields the ball, whips his throw in the second and Rickard is on with a base hit to right field. A single. The first hit off Bob Feller. And just as we said, the crowd was waiting for something. Then it happened. So Rickard lined one to the right of Eddie Robinson in between first and second to right field. And the young man who had no idea at all of playing in this World Series gets his team's first hit in the World Series. And that brings to the plate Bill Salkal, the left hand hitting catcher for the Boston Braves. That at 244 struck out in second inning. Bobby Feller blows in his pitching hand. No score in the ball game. That's the Braves first hit. So you can relax now. If you have any attention about a possible no hitter, here's your pitch. It's a bunt up in front of the plate. He got up for the ball, switched it to Robinson for the out. Going down to second is Rickett. It's a sacrifice as Bill Sales to the right of the plate down the first baseline. Egan pounced on the ball, whipped his throw to first in time to retire Sal Kells, who is credited with a sacrifice. Rickert moves to second, put him in scoring position and brings to the plate Mike McCormick. Mike popped out to Lou Budrow in the third inning. A.299 hitter on the season. A right hand batter who saw a World Cherokee service with a Cincinnati red back around 1939 and 40. So the world Series has no unusual tension for him. Outfield plays him a step toward left. Infield shaded around toward third. Rickard with a short lead off second. Here's the pitch. Swung on to high fly ball out into short center. Gordon goes out on the grass. Doby comes in, Joe calls for it, makes the catch. Right in behind him were Doby and Walt Judy. Holding second base as Ricketts Mike McCormick pops the joker. Gordon in short center. And now coming to bat is Eddie Stankey. Eddie bats him right handed. Popped out to third baseman Kenny Keltner his first time up. He was certainly a spark plug in the 1947 World Series when he was playing second base for the Brooklyn Dodgers against the New York Yankees. And was a spark plug for the Braves the early part of the year. Until he broke his ankle. Right hand batter swings and sends a little dribber back to the mound taken by Feller and two hops. He whips his throw over to Robinson in time for the out. That's all for the Brave threat in the last half of the fifth inning. Stanky grounding out the pitcher to the first baseman. Feller to Robinson. No run for the Boston Braves. They got one hit. Their first hit off Feller. A ringing liner to right field by Marv Ricketts. No errors for the Cleveland Indians and one man left on for Boston. And thus the score at the end of five innings of play. Nothing and nothing with your totals. The visiting Cleveland Indians. No runs, three hits, no errors. The host Boston Braves. No runs, one hit, one error. And so we're ready now to move into the top half of the sixth inning. And the Cleveland engines will come up with Larry Doby, Lou Badrel and then Joe Gordon. Johnny Sane from Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Arkansas. Folks down there mighty proud of him as our baseball fans everywhere because he's a great pitcher. Pine Bluff, Arkansas, also the home of Don Hudson, who made his Mark in the football world. Johnny Sane all set to work. Larry Dobie stepping in the hitting position. A scoreless ball game. And the thousands who have come to Braves Field today to watch this first game of the World Series are sitting back, somewhat relaxed, not too much. They know something's going to happen pretty soon. It's got to and they're just waiting for it. The right hander Johnny Saint into the wind. Up in comes the pitch. The left handed hitting Dolby who takes the curve inside for ball one. Dolby flying to center and grounded to short in his first two times at bat. Bill McKechnie coaching at third base, walking up and down same, working rapidly. Delivers an overhand fastball that swung on a broken back. Bengal out over second and dark. Almost got it but couldn't quite do it. The ball goes into center and it's in there for a base hit. Up for the ball is Mike McCormick. He whipped his throw back into second and Doby is on with a broken bat, single to center. Baseball players don't care whether they break their bats or not if they get their base hits. Doby gets a single to center for the fourth Cleveland hit of the ball game. And that brings to the plate the manager Lou Bedro, who flied the left and struck out. There goes Dolby. The hit and run is on the ground. Ball hit. To think he's up with it. Over to first base, to targets and in time for the out on Bud road. No chance for the double play as Lou put on the hit and run and Doby was off and winging on the pitch. Bud behind the runner into right field. Was unable to get it into the gap between first and second. Hit it to Eddie Stankey whose only play was the first base. So there's one away. Doby's on second in scoring position and the batter is Joe Gordon. Joe's had one for two single last time up a right hand. Batter takes strike called over the inside corner. He didn't like the decision. Steps out of the batter's box and remonstrates briefly with plain umpire George Barr. Gordon looked at the third strike in the second inning. Single left from the fourth and stole the base comp of the sixth inning. No score. Larry Doby on second takes a big lead. Sing takes the stretch. Texas runner, here's the pitch. It's a curve that's high for a ball. Johnny Sane has a peculiar motion. He takes that stretch and sort of whirls around back towards second. That forced Larry Doble. He had a wide lead to Go back to the bag. And then Sane comes back around and into the plate with it. It keeps the run from taking too wide a lead. There's an attempted pickoff, a throw down a second. Back in there safely as Doby with a headlong slide. The count is one ball, one strike. Eddie Stankey took the throw from Johnny Saint. Returns the ball to Big John. Joe Gordon the batter one away. Doby again takes his lead. Stretch by saying, look back. Here's the pitch. Joe Gordon swings and fouls it back onto the screen. And the count now is one ball. Two strikes on the flash the outfield for Gordon way around toward left. They play him as a full hitter infield shaded around toward third. Bob Elliott is deep at third, close to the line. Al Dark deep on the edge of the outfield grass. Over toward the third base hole slightly. Eddie Stanky about three strides to the right of second base as we look out onto the field. Earl TORGERSON Laying about 15ft off the first baseline in the halfway. Johnny Singh looks in a Getty sign. Then he decides to step off the rubber. Goes to the Ross and back for a moment, comes back upon the hill, toes the slab. Joe Gordon, slightly open stance, awaits the pitch to count one ball, two strikes. Here it is. Gordon swings and lets a fly ball out in the left center field. Converging over there are Rickert and Mike McCormick. Richard Dunnert makes the catch. Dobby halfway towards third, scoots back to second. They're two down and the batter now is Kenny Keltner. Joe Gordon is retired by Johnny Sane on the fly ball the left center, which Marv Rickett took easily. And now Keltner steps up, a.298 hitter during the season. Almost a.300 batter. Keltner single the left in the second inning for the first hit of the World Series. Struck out in the fourth. Always a dangerous man in that clutch. Johnny Singh with a stretch, throws. Keltner swings and fouls it back onto the screen behind the plate for a strike. Indians have Larry Doby on second base in scoring position to stormless ball game, top half of the sixth inning. Keltner, who's a 6 foot, 180 pounder, hails from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He put the big blast on the Boston Red Sox in the playoff game at Fenway park the other day when he hit a home homer following singles by Woodrow and Gordon. That was the big blow that touched off the Indian pennant celebration a couple of hours later. Now the pitch. Keltner swings and lines went out to left center field. There's Richard racing over 100 and grabs it for the out. There was a tremendous liner to deep left center. Marvichord was laying back deep, raced to his left and grabbed the ball about 10ft from the scoreboard. No runs for Cleveland, one hit, no errors for Boston and one left on for the Indians. No score at the end of five and a half innings to play the score Cleveland nothing, Braves nothing.
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I've recommended to plenty of fellows and any number of them have thanked me for fitting them next to it. Fans, take Joe DiMaggio's advice. Will you get a Gillette Super Speed Razor, the only razor that combines instant blade changing with supreme shaving comfort and double edge economy with a 10 blade Gillette dispenser. It's a regular $50 value for only a dollar. Coming into the last half of the sixth inning scoreless ball game and it's going to be Johnny Sane leading off of the Braves. That's a right handed Bobby Feller who has limited the Braves to one hit over the first five innings all Set to work. Sane fouled out to first baseman Eddie Robinson in the third inning. Swings pretty good for a pitcher. Bob Feller throws. Sane swings and hits one on the ground after short scooped up by Lou Bedro. There's his throw over to Robinson in time. And there's one away for the Boston Braves in the last half of the sixth inning. Zane going after that first pitch, grounding out Budrow to Robinson on a little low liner. Two hops to Budrow. We go to the top of the order now to pick up Tommy Holmes. Tommy Flied to center and bounced out to Feller in the fourth inning over two. Incidentally, of the 18 foot outs for the Braves, 10 have been fly balls and pop ups. Tommy Holmes, the left hand hitter. Bobby Feller rocks in the box. Brown comes the right arm. The pitch. Fastball. Outside. Ball one. Tommy is a Brooklyn boy. Used to be the property of the New York Yankees, who sold him to the Boston Braves. He's become quite a star. Bobby Feller throws. The left hand batter takes fastball low. Ball two. Two balls, no strikes. Although Tommy is a left hand hitter, they don't play him to pull too much. As a matter of fact, they shade him somewhat toward left. He hits that ball where it's pitched. Slices a lot. Kenny Keltner laying in close at third. In the event of an attempted bunt. Blue Bedro, who plays the shallowest shortstop of anyone we've ever seen anywhere over near the bag at second. Here's your pitch. Outside. Ball three. Three balls, no strikes. Incidentally, the official scorers for the World Series, there are three of them. Ed Burns of the Chicago Tribune, who is national president of the Baseball Writers association of America. Bert Whitman of the Boston Herald representing the Boston contingent. And Ed McCauley of the Cleveland News, representing that end of the picture color, throws a pitch in there for a call. Strike three. One. The count now on Tommy. One down, last half, six inning. A scoreless ball game. And as anticipated, as expected, and almost, you might say, as advertised. It's been a pitchers duel between Johnny Sane and Bobby Feller. Two great right handers. Rapid Robert into the wind. Up, fires away. His pitch. Swung on and fouled. Back to the screen. Ball rolls up the screen, almost into the press box. So you have full count now on Tommy. 3 and 2. Seller goes Ben Rosinbach gives it a bit of a touch. Stands with his back to the plate, looks around the outfield. Lou Badreau walks around out at short. Blue hollers something through his pitcher. Kenny Kelp over there. Third kicks the dirt. Joe Gordon swings his arms around, up over his head. He's laying about two strides off to the right of second base. Bobby fell into the lineup for the playoff pitch. Here it is. Tommy Holmes swings and fouls it off. Back up, third out of play going forward was Dale Mitchell, but he couldn't get anywhere near it. The left field foul line on fire. Joe Paparella, the American League, goes over to retrieve the ball. Billy Southworth coaching at third. Brave skipper walking up and down wearing the number 30 in the back of his uniform. Hollers words of encouragement up to Tommy Holmes. Johnny Cooney coaching at first base. Bob Feller blows in his pitching hand. That's a pitching characteristic of his. Jimmy Hegan gives him the sign. Three ball, two strikes, one out. Last half, six Stunning, no score. Bob's into the wind, up around comes the right arm. Here's the playoff pitch. Holmes swings and sends a long fly ball to left field. Dale Mitchell backs up, whirls around, gets under the ball, makes the catch. And they're two away. Mitchell played that one beautifully. He got a look at the ball, went back, whirled around with his back to the ball, raced toward the wall about 10ft, then turned around and was set to make a catch. So with two down, up to the plate steps Alvin died Stark grounded out through the first baseman in the first inning. Eddie Robinson was tossed out by Joe Gordon in the fourth inning on a hard smash. Alvin, a right hand batter, wide open stance. Bob Feller throws dark swings and lifts a fly ball out into left center field. Here's Larry Doby digging in. He's under it waiting now. And he makes the catch for the out. Thus, the Boston Braves go out in order in the last half of the sixth inning. No runs, no hits, no Indian errors, nobody left on for Boston. And the score at the end of six innings. Cleveland, nothing. Boston nothing. With your six inning totals. Cleveland, no runs, four hits, no errands. Boston, no runs, one hit, one error. Before we go to the top of the seventh inning, friends, we pause 10 seconds for station identification. Your dial is set at 7:10, the spot for sports all year round, your World Series station WO in New York. This is Mel Allen speaking to you once again from Braves Field in Boston. The first game of the 1948 World Series. Jimmy Britt and I have been having a wonderful time describing the scoreless pitchers duel with Johnny Sane and Bobby Feller baffing the hitters. Feller having given up one hit, same four in this broadcast going around the United States is also Going around the world through the facilities of the Armed Forces Radio Service. Uncle Sam troops abroad. Wally Judnick up for the Cleveland Indian. Swings and fouls at first pitch. Off to the right of the plate. Strike one as we go to the top of the seventh inning. Judnick, left hand batter line to right field in the second inning and fly to right field in the fourth. Right hander Johnny Saint, all set. Fires away, the pitch is swung on. There's a good fly ball down into right field. Tommy Holmes is getting under deep, makes the catch about 10ft from the bullpen barrier and about 20ft off the right field line. Judnick seems to have the range, but unable to get the distance. That's the third time and he's gone out the right field field, lined out and has skied out twice. And now we have Eddie Robinson stepping in. Rounded out to Earl Torgerson in the second inning and flied to right in the fifth. A scoreless ball game. Robinson steps in the outfield toward right. Bob elliott laying about 10ft off the third baseline and quarter of the way back toward the outfield grass. Johnny Sane delivers, Robinson swings and hits a high pop up foul. Back of first. Ferguson going for it. Can't get it. The ball is out of play going into the stands in behind the Cleveland dugout, which is located behind first base. The home team, the Boston Braves, dugout, of course, located between home plate and third base. Sing checks with tall, gets his sign, he's into the wind. Up round comes the right arm to pitch. Crash ball, swung on, hit high into the air, out into short right field. Tommy Holmes comes in under the ball, catch his glove three times, makes the catch. And they're two down for the Cleveland Indians in the top of the seven. I don't know how long this can go on, but as long as it goes on and we'll be here. The wind is blowing in, incidentally, from the outfield toward home plate. I think that Jim Brit may bear me out in this. That's a characteristic of Braves field. Charles river that flows by out there. The wind's always blowing in. Now here's Jimmy Hegan, right hand batter. Johnny Sane, ready. Comes in with a fastball that swung on, lined out into short left center. Coming past the Mike McCormick makes the catch.
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And that's all for the Indians in the top of the seven. No runs, no hits, no errors, nobody left on. And all the brave fans are up and yelling in the last half of that bunny. The score. Cleveland nothing. BOSTON Nothing. Joe DiMaggio of the New York Yankees set a mouthful last inning when he told you that the modern Gillette Super Speed razor is the easiest shaving and most convenient razor. He knows about men. With this improved razor, you change blades instantly, enjoy superlative shaves and have the added advantage of double edge economy. Twist the razor open for the blade, zip. It's loaded. Twist again and you're all set. There's nothing to take apart or put together. Nothing to jam or clog. And what's more, you don't have to be a locksmith to make it work. Cleaning is a cinch too. Just loosen the razor slightly, rinse and shake. Now you get the razor plus a 10 blade Gillette dispenser. A regular $50 value for only a dollar. Buy one and see what modern shaving comfort and convenience are like. Last half of the seventh inning. Scoreless ball game. The thousands out here today, predominantly Boston partisans standing up. Last half, the seventh inning for that seventh inning stretch. And now we're ready to go in the last half, the seventh inning with Earl Corgan leading off for Boston, to be followed by Bob Elliott and then Marv Rickert. It's a scoreless game. Bob Feller on the hill, realizing one of his lifetime ambitions, that is to have the opportunity to pitch in a World Series game. It's into the windup. Here's the pitch to the left hand batter. He tries a bunton, misses. Strike one. Earl Torgson, who's a pretty fast man, tried to bunt that ball down the third baseline and beat it out. But he never got close to it. Matter of fact, he just threw his bat at the ball, hoping to push it down the line. It was unsuccessful in the attempt. They realized that Bobby's pretty rough customer to handle. The way he's popping off those curves and getting his F ball working today. They're trying to button get on now. The pitch is swung on. A good shot. Rams. A great backhand stop by Robinson, a Florida feller and a put down in first base under traffic play. What a play that was. And Mike on the play is Bobby Feller. And let us repeat it for you. That was a hard smash to the right of Eddie Robinson. He made an across the body, dropped hands, snatch of that ball deep. Unable to race targets into the bag, Bobby Feller was over to cover. Eddie Robinson underhanded the ball to Bob Feller. Who arrived at the bag with the ball just a fraction of a second ahead of Thorpston for the most deferred fielding play, the most spectacular one of the afternoon. So this went away and Feller in talking about had to watch that ball and hand it to him by Ross. And got in the way of Ferguson, who slightly spiked Bobby. But he's all right. He's backed on me. He only tried to practice bit and his foot seems to be okay. So there's one away on a fine ceiling play by Eddie Robinson. And nice follow up work on the part of Bobby Feller. Now here's Bob Elliott, right hand hitter. Slide to right, slide to left and his two previous clearances. Bobby Feller throws. Pitch. Curveball side ball one, go up game. Last half of the seventh. That was sparkling work on the part of Eddie Robinson. That ball looked like a base hit all the way. So he gets his sign from Hegan Elliot with open stance deep in the batter's box. Back cocked off his right shoulder. Takes curve over there for a call. Strike. That even is up the count. Not one and one. One ball one. Strike. Outfield playing Bob Brown toward left full hitter. Joe Gordon very deep, about two strides to the right of second. Elliott awaits the pitch. Takes outside now for ball two. Two and one that look like a slider. Kenny Keltner is laying about halfway back at third and some six feet off the line. Blue Bedro is in four or five steps. It's short shading second, just a little bit more than he would normally play. In other words, he's not halfway between second, third. A little closer to second. Bobby Feller rocks on the box, comes in with his pitch. Elliot swings and tops one down the third baseline, which he may beat out. Color has the ball fired the first in time. Podium. A very close play. That was one of those Baltimore chops that bounced off the plate high in the air down the third baseline. Color came hustling off the mound. And it took plenty of hustle on the part of Bob in order to get the batter at first base. Elliot was out by a step. Another fine fielding play. Little burst of the plate. Previous one, which Was Robinson to Feller. This was Feller to Robinson. There's no doubt. But what a runner like Torgerson or Alvin Dark would have beaten. That out for a base hit, which is to take nothing away from the hard hitting Bob Elliott. Now Marv Richard, the left hand hitter, is up there. Bobby Feller throws. Pitch over the outside corner for a call. Strike. Richard fly the center in the second inning. And then on the fifth inning, singled sharply to right field for the first and so far only hit off Bob Feller. A scoreless ball game. There have been but five hits in the game. The Indians have four, the Braves one. Feller leans forward, looking in, getting that sign he's ready into the wind. Up Brown comes the arm. Here's the pitch. Rickard takes outside and the count is even, up at one and one. One ball and one. Strike. Billy Southward coaching back to third, slaps his hands together. Come on. Marv Ricketts wearing number four. That was the number that Jeff Heath wore before he hurt his ankle, broke it, and eliminated himself from participation in what would have been his first World Series. Now the pitch is on its way to Rickard. He swings and lifts a high fly ball down the left field line. Lou Bundrell goes out, Colesport Mitchell in behind him. Lou Mix the catch. And that's all for the Boston Braves in the last half of the seventh century. Went way out on the grass and left field toward the line to make the catch. No runs, no hits, no errors, nobody left on. And at the end of seven complete innings, ladies and gentlemen, it's a scoreless ball game. You're seven in the totals, Cleveland. No runs, four hits, no errors. The Boston Braves, no runs, one hit, one error. The ball game started at 1:00'. Clock. And according to the spectacular and gigantic scoreboard they have out here at Braves Field. One of the finest we've ever seen anywhere in any ballpark. It is now 2:20. That's Eastern Time, of course, which means that these two teams have played seven innings in the very fast time of an hour and 20 minutes. So we're ready to move now into the top half of the eighth inning. And we're getting into the stage of the ball game now where tension rides high. On every pitch. One run will loom tremendously large. And it's a nice round of applause that greets the appearance of Bobby Feller as he walks up to the plate. The lead off for the Cleveland Indians. And the top of the. Bobby gets a base hit now and then, but he's not known too Much for his hitting palace. He struck out and sacrificed in his two previous appearances. Johnny Sane throws. Feller attempts a bump and misses. Strike one. Will be at the top of the order. Dale Mitchell coming up next. And then Larry Doby. The outfield step. Short left for Bob. Bob Elliot. Language. Close to third. Johnny Singh fires away. And it's inside for a ball fastball. Count is even up at one and one.
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This has been the kind of game, except for the one fielding play in the last inning, has not allowed for too much excitement. Now the pitch. Swung on in this by Bobby Curveball. Had him ripley one and two to count. That noise that you hear in the background is the diesel engine. Johnny Sane throws. Bob Feller swings and he misses. Strike three. The strikeout for Johnny Sane. That's the first strikeout he's chalked up since the fourth inning. And his fourth of the ball game. His fifth of the ball game. As we recheck and are coming to bat is Dale Mitchell. We had a very successful year. American League pitchers found him a very rough man to get out. Left hand batter Johnny Sane throws curveball inside. Mitchell flying to center, fouled out to third and flying to left. In his three previous appearances, he's a 6 foot 1, 195 pounder from Normal, Oklahoma. Sane throws. Mitchell swings and lifts a fly ball out into deep center. Mike McCormick races back, gets under the ball, Waits, makes the catch. Thriller 2 Down for the Cleveland Engines in the top half the eighth inning. And now we have Larry Doby, who climbed to center, grounded to short and single to center in that order. Stepping to the plate. Another left hand batter. And just how long this sort of thing can go on, we don't know. It's delightful. To the baseball connoisseur who loves baseball that's played close to the vest and tight like this. Johnny Sane delivers to Larry Doby, who swings and lifts a high fly ball down the left field line. There's Rickard racing over into foul territory. Now he makes the catch. And so the Cleveland Indians fail to score the top of the eighth inning. No runs, no hits, no Errors. Nobody left on. They're out in order. And at the end of seven and a half innings of play, the score, Cleveland nothing, Boston nothing. 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The Indians have gotten four. No score. And as we come to the last half of the eighth with Bob Feller, the team for Cleveland and Johnny Sane during the pitching for Boston. As we come to the last half of the eighth inning, Bill Sal, the Braves left hand hitting catcher, steps to the plate. He struck out and sacrificed in his two previous appearances. Bobby Feller starts his wind up. Round comes the right arm. The pitch Saw Kel takes strike call over the outside corner was a fastball. And he's rapid today, taking plenty of time. Hides that ball behind his back. He looks in to get the sign from Egan. Now he's ready. Into the wind up. Here's the pitch. Sawkel moves away from a curve inside. Ball one one the count. Bill McKechnie and several of the Indians come to the front of the dugout and holler up at George Far. About the position assumed by Bill Sonnell, Caliber Bansbach. They claim that his back foot is outside the restraining line. Which, to put it simply, is against the law. It's all straightened out. Fella ready to work again. Here's the one. One pitch and to hook. That's low inside for ball two. And then Saw Cal wiggling. When Feller's curveball is working, he'll have anybody wiggling up there. You don't know what that ball's going to do. Two balls, one Strike count. Bill saw Kel the batter. Last half the eighth inning, no score. They don't play Saul Kel to pull too much. Fellow leans forward, gets his sign. Keller laying in close to third, about 10ft off the line. Now the pitch. Saw Keller takes inside again. Ball three, clean one. Brave fans start that rhythmical pause now, calling for a rally. And of course, when the Braves move to Cleveland, the Braves will hear some of that same sort of Cleveland. Cleveland fans start that rhythmic applause because it's huge. Municipal Stadium on the shore front of Lake Erie. And be thousands of them rooting for their hometown team when the series scene shifts to Cleveland day after tomorrow. Bobby Feller, three one, six on his way. And it's inside four. Four. And that's Bobby Feller walks his second man. He had walked Earl Torkinson in the fourth inning, but then there were two away. The difference now is it's the eighth inning, nobody out. The Indians have only one more chance at that, assuming that something should occur here for the Braves. And now here's Bill Macy coming out of the Braves dugout, is going to run for Bill Sal as Billy Southworth in the last half of the eighth inning is managed to get a runner on base. And there's been so few of them on base for the plays today. One hit a line single to right by Marv rickett in the fifth inning. And a couple of bases on balls. One to Torgson in the fourth and now one to Saul Calder in the eighth. Macy running for Mike McCormick up. The Indians are looking for the bunt. Kelner in on the grass at third. Butler let it cover second, Gordon first. Here's the pitch. It's Bunny down the first baseline, beautifully running. The ball rules and is picked up by Feller. Fairfax foul. He throws to first base. What did Bill Summers call it? He called it a fair ball. And out at first is Mike McCormick, who punted down the first baseline. Fella let it roll as long as he could, and then when he saw McCormick bearing down his bag, he picked it up, tagged him out. And we waited for the umpire to call it. Fair foul. It was a fair ball. It's a sacrifice for Mike McCormick. He's out. Feller. I say Feller tagged him out. He tossed the ball. Ball over to Eddie Robinson. That moves Phil Macy, who went in the run for Sol 2, second base. And puts out to the plate a fellow by the name of Eddie Stankey, one of the greatest touch players in the history of baseball. And they're going to put him on they're going to walk him. They're not going to take a chance with him. Blue bundle orders. Eddie's banking to be put on with first base open the runner on second in scoring position. 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in the run for Eddie Spanking. So you've got Macy on second and 60 on first, two pinch runners and Johnny Sane, a right hand hitter up who's pretty good hitter for a pitcher hitting 14 straight games. For example in 1947. One down, no score. The stretcher by Feller. Here's the pitch. Sane swings and hits the side to right field. Judnick is going to get under it and makes the catch. And the runners hold their bases. Johnny Sane came close to driving one over the head. A baller Judnick as he really tagged one. Judnick had to hustle back and grab it. And the runners who were all up and running had to hustle back to their respective stations. So Johnny Sane is out. He came awfully close. They're wrapping up this ball game so it's two down up steps Tommy Holmes, the leadoff man for the Boston Braves. Left hand hitter who fly in the center bounced out the feller and flying to left. And now Bobby is faced with his biggest passer of all game. Macy leads off second, Sisty leads off first. Two down last year putting no score. The stretch by Fellard Time is called as Tommy Holmes steps out of the batter's box. And now Billy Southward trots out of the third base coach's box. I thought he was going to the plate but he didn't. He ran over to pick up a glove lying about 10ft off towards the plate away from the coach's box. He's back in the specs by fellow checks his runners. That's up to take off a throw down to Bunzo and it almost had Macy and Buntrone as argument. Bill Stewart says no, he's back in. And Bill Stewart signals that Budrow tagged him on the arm about the elbow. Meaning of course that the hand had the bag before Pudrow put on the tag. But it was beautifully executed. The Indians have a great pick off play. Budre is still arguing with Bill Stewart. The Indians have a great pick off play. When the sign is put on account is started by Bobby Feller and Budrow. And then Lou will break for the bag and Bob will swing around and throw. Mudrow calls Mitchell in to play shallow at left. Here's the pitch. Holmes takes inside for a ball. One ball on strikes. Last half the eighth inning, no score. Two men down. Tommy Holmes the batter. Nothing, nothing. Ball game. Bobby Feller ready. Dale Macy a pinch runner leads off second 50. Pinch runner leads off first. The pitch. Tommy Holmes swings a line to foul down the third baseline. Count is one ball, one strike. And this is the high spot of the ball game. A pair of bases on balls in this inning, one of them intentional have set the Boston Braves up in business with Tommy Holmes. Not bad to play. Hoping to open the doors wide for a landslide type of business. Bobby Feller trying to shut the doors. One ball, one strike, two down. Bobby taking his time. And now Tommy Holmes says I like to have like that ball George. George Barr played on fire. Flicks it over and revs up to cover the ball. Then tosses back out to Bob. That just lessens attention just for a moment. Blue Bender will holler something over to Bobby Feller now we're all set to go direct. Here's the pitch. Tommy Holmes swings and hits one down the third baseline. So they did. Here he is safely mounting third, takes the plate and he goes in to score. And there is Bisley going to third and climbing into second at home. Tommy Holmes lined the single left scoring Bill Macy from Second base put the Braves out in front one to nothing. And on the throw in, which was cut off, Sisty, who was on first, went to third and home six second on the throw. The batter now is Alvin Dyke. And that was only the second hit off Bob Feller. But the Braves are out in front one to nothing as they took advantage of the one break in Bobby Feller's armor today. A base on ball, Bobby pitching. The dark right hand hitter, outside ball once. A base on ball to Bill Sawkow started the inning. Macy went in the run for Bill Mike McCormick sacrifice. Macy to second. And with Spanky coming to bat, they decided to put him on purposely. They walked him and Siskey went into a run for him. And then with two down, Holmes line the single left the pitch. Dutch takes a turn inside. Ball two. We didn't have time. We didn't really have time to tell you in the excitement. We wanted to get the main part of the play in. But Bill Macy, when Holmes lined that ball to left, started tearing for third base and. And just took his cap off his head and ran bareheaded into third round at the base and came on hold. Times call here for a moment. Bill Summers as Macy starts to warm up down in the bullpen. Off to the left of the dugout. Loosen up his arm because he's going to go in and catch Bill Summers. Ordered him out of there. All right. Horse on second and third, Summer pitching. Hal Dark swings and hits a foul pop. That's going out of play. Back of third. We thought that Keltner might have a chance to go for it. Two balls, one strike. Two balls, one strike to count now on. Alvin Dys on third, Tommy Holmes on second. One run in last eight, I think. One to nothing favor Boston. Bob fell into the wind up. Here's the pitch. Dark swings, fouls it off, back to first base. That's going to go out of play. Ball going into the lower stands. Back of first. And the count is two and two on the brilliant Braid shortstop. So it's Tommy Holmes who broke the scoreless tie as he lined a single to left. Two balls, two strikes, two outs. Alvin Dark wears the number two at the plate. Two men on base, second and third. Third, Two men in scoring position. The wind up. Here's the pitch. Dart swings and hits one center. Cover up with it. Fires the throw over to Robinson in time. And that's all for Boston in the last game. One run, one hit, no errors and just two men left off for Boston. And the fans out the bleachers. In the pavilion. Give Tommy Holmes, custodian of right field, a tremendous hand as he trots out there one to nothing in favor of the Braves at the end of eight innings. Tommy Holmes, that's his name. He wears the number one. He drove in the one and only run of the ball game to make Braves fans happy at the moment. You know, bumper crops are always new, so I know you'll be glad to learn that more children were born last year than ever before. That means your local community test agencies are busier than ever with prenatal education for mothers, baby clinics, hospital care, children's homes and the like. Yes, there's plenty of work for your red feather dollars and plenty of dollars are needed. So when the Community Chest drive starts in your community, give generously. Everybody benefits, everybody gives to the community chest. We pause 10 seconds for station identification.
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This is Mutual Broadcasting System. You're listening to another great sporting event dropped to you over wor your World Series station in New York. Blue Bugall leads off of the Cleveland Engines. Top of the line coming Sisty at second. Macy catching. Here's the pitch. And it's over the outside corner for a call site. Siby Siste has taken over at second base in place of Eddie Stanke and Bill Macy as supine. Bill saw Kel back of the plate. Johnny sand throws, but Go swings and sends a long drive to left center field. Mike McCormick races over and makes the catch. Lou Buto trying to go all the way on that one hit. A long drive to left center. Mike McCormick raced over and grabbed it. Took one down. The top of the ninth inning and the Braves leading one to nothing. Up come the stove Gordon. Gordon's had one out of three, struck out, single the left and five to left. And now Johnny Sane throws and Joe Gordon takes high inside for ball one out for the ninth inning, one to nothing in favor of the Braves. That's the way the Braves have been playing ball all year. Battling for every inch, taking advantage of every opening. Now the pitch to go. Kern is Lowell. Ball two, low outside, two ball throw. Strikes one out here on the top of the ninth inning. The Boston Blades leading one nothing. Johnny Sane delivers. Joe Gordon swings and fouls it back onto the screen. Strike one. And Joe Gordon was trying to blast one. With these long ball hitters coming up. And the engines realizing it's the top of the ninth inning, they're trying to get that long ball. Lew Budro came close. He sent a soaring drive in the left center that Mike McCormick took. Now the pitch. Gordon takes high, very high for ball three. Playing one. You got Kenny Kelker on deck. John Singh ready for his 31 pitch. He delivers. Joe Gordon swings and misses. And so you got a full count on the fl. 3 balls, 2 strikes, 1 out, top of the right inning. The Boston Braves on two hits, only at score to run and leave one nothing. John Sane throws, Gordon swings and lifts a high pop up down the left field line. Alvin Dark calls for it in foul territory, now makes the catch. And there's two away. And up to the plate comes Kenny Kelper. The Cleveland Indians remaining hope with two down the top of the night. Kenny Kelper, who's single to left, struck out, inclined to left, steps in batsam right handed. They blame the pull, and you can be sure Kenny will be leveling off, trying to go all the way. Johnny Sane throws, Kenny takes outside. Ball one. We've got Blanchettnick on deck. He'll hit next if Keltner gets on Sane ready into the lineup. Here's the pitch. Keltner swings and sends a ground ball deep down the third base line. Taken by heavy. The throw to first base is over the head of Gasan and safe at first. Here's Kenny Kelner and on the overthrow, it's bounced into the stands. Keltner is allowed to go down to second for the ball game just about over. Bob Elliott, who feels that ball very deep at third, fired over the head of Earl Target. And the ball bounded into the stands. It's an error for Elliott on the throw. His second error of the ball enabling the Indians to get Kelpner in scoring position. And Walter Judnick is the batter. And now the game has come right down to the wire. Two down, Keltner on second on an error. Judnick the batter. The pitch. And it's over the outside corner for a called strike. Nelson Potter a right hander. And Clyde Chown, the left hander, throwing the bullpen for the Braves. Ken Kelvon, second base, one to nothing. Pay for the Braves ninth coming, two out shots. Here's the pitch. Dubnick swings and misses Strike two as Johnny saying call for her wicked hook. Mitcher from Pine and Bluff, Arkansas is just breaking off curve now. And he's ready for the two strike pitch. And Keltner leads off second. Here it is. Dudney takes strike play call. The ball game is over. And big Johnny Sane put that third one by Walter Judnick with a time run on second base. And the Boston Braves nip the Cleveland engines. And the first game of the 1948 World Series in a tremendous pitching duel between Bob Feller and the fourth head Johnny Sane. With Feller losing a tough one. Pitching a two hitter, but losing it to a guy who pitched a great game. Johnny Sane a four hitter one to nothing. And now for the totals and the summary and his pointed comment, I turn you back to my colleague on this World Series broadcast, Jim Britt. Thank you, Mel. This was undoubtedly one of the great World Series games of all time. It certainly was one of the finest pitchers duels of modern times. For a moment, the error by Bob Elliot threatened to upset the Boston Braves apple cart. But as soon as the first two strikes were thrown by Walter Judnick, especially when he swung and missed and nearly went down in the left hand batters box after going after the second one, I think there was a suspicion even in the Cleveland dugout. The John Sane of Belleville, Arkansas, the former Navy Flyer, really had it today. It was his 25th win of the year, the first World Series victory of his career. The game went 1 hour and 42 minutes and the attendance here today 40,135. The total receipts were a little more than $180,000 of which slightly more than $153,000 went into the players share. So with the players sharing in the receipts of the four games, two here and two in the Municipal Stadium at Cleveland, there may be an all time record cut as far as the winners and losers shares are concerned. Starting off the game, Saints yielded a hit in the second inning to Ken Keltner. An error by Bob Elliot, who got two bad ones out of his system today, pushing him in troubles in the third inning. Especially when Hegan stole second base. But he worked his way out of that. Gordon singled with one out and stole second in the fourth inning as Keltner struck out. But again the Indians left the runners stranded. Keegan reached second base in the fifth, but was left Doby single and got as far as second in the sixth and was left. And then in the ninth inning, with two men out in the ball game, riding on that long throw across the diamond. When Elliott threw over Torgerson's head and the ball bounced into the field marshes for a two guys base error. Keltner got it for a second base. So in the ball game only six Indians got on base. Four through hits, two through errors, five of them got as far as second. Not a single Indian reached third. And there were six strikeouts for Sane, who has pitched one of the great games of his career for the Boston Braves. Bob Feller retired the first 11. Then Ferguson walked and stole second in the fifth inning. Rickard, who was made eligible just for this series because of the injury to Jimmy Jeff Heath singled and was sacrificed to second. The Braves used two sacrifices in the game, but he was left. And then Feller got hot again. He retired three men in a row in the fifth, in the sixth, in the seventh, and incidentally, the great defensive play of the game was accomplished by Bobby himself teaming up with first baseman Eddie Robinson. That was when he was spiked slightly, but he gamely continued when the injury was found not to be serious. The break came in the eighth inning and it was Feller's own wildness that set the stage for the Braves victory. In this first one he lost control, walked Bill Salel. Billy Stopworth, who was thinking every minute of every hour of every day, immediately sent the faster still macing into run to sil. And McCormick dropped the sacrifice punch down the first baseline. Then Stanky was given an intentional pass and immediately the fleeter the Besi was sent in to run for Stanky since he is not completely recovered from his fractured ankle. With runners on first and second, Sane threatened to win his own game by building a line drive that all but went over the head of right fielder Walt Judnick. Judnick ranged back perfectly to make a good play, but with Booms at bat, Tommy banged a line drive just out of the reach of third baseman Ken Keltner. Bill Macy removed his cap and sprinted home hatless. And then on the throw in, the runners moved up. When Dark went out, it remained only for Train to get by those powerful Indians in the ninth inning. And get by them he did. Boudreaux hit a sharp line drive to left center, which McConnock took. Gordon popped up a foul and Duck after a good sprint, took that. Then came the ground ball to Elliott. The thus it's a two base error and Judnick went down swinging. Judnick took a call, third strike rather. And it was the sixth strikeout. So the Braves are the winners with 1 run, 4 hits, no errors, 4 runners left, 1 run, 2 hits, 2 errors and 4 runners left. Cleveland, no runs, 4 hits, no errors and 6 runners left. The totals, Boston, 1 run, 2 hits, two errors. Cleveland, no runs, 4 Hits, no errors. The winning pitcher, Johnny Sane. The losing pitcher, Bob Feller. Now, Jim, I just want to come back in and inject interview, interject a thought here that I'm sure will lend a great deal of the World Series as it will continue to be played to draw a parallel to Waller Johnson. Bobby Feller is considered by most baseball observers to be, shall we say, the modern Waller Johnson. Waller, a great pitcher and yet never got into a World Series until in the twilight of his career. And even then it looked as if Lady Luck wouldn't smile upon him to get him a win. And it wasn't, of course, until the pebble incident. You remember the ball that bounced over the head of Freddie Lindstrom when Moreland went in as a relief pitcher that he gained that victory. And here today, Bobby Feller was great in defeat, as was Johnny Sane in victory. And now will Bob Feller be able to get a victory before this series over? I think that's something that everybody, fans everywhere are going to really be looking forward to. Another parallel, of course, Mel, is the fact that back in 1914, the Boston Brave referred to by some as hitless wonders and a miracle team didn't even figure, said the experts, to get the first three A's out so they themselves could come to bat. But they went on to defeat the A's in four straight and they were the first team ever to win four successive victories. One of the. One of the ironic incidents of the game is that the last two hit game was thrown by Mort Cooper of the St. Louis Cardinals against the St. Louis Louis Browns and he also lost. So Bob Feller, I think certainly rates a title which he doesn't doesn't like that of the hard luck pitcher of the starter. The Braves still have not lost a World series game since 1900. And now fans make a date to be with us via radio tomorrow for the second game of the series. And we'll have fun. Tuning time will be 12:45 Eastern Standard Time, the same as today. So until tomorrow, smooth sailing, smooth shaving and good afternoon from your host, the Gillette Safety Razor Company Mel Allen and Jim Britt. Recorded highlights of today's World Series game will be presented with Stan Lomax over WOR at half past eleven tonight. Stay tuned for Queen for a Day which follows next and then following Queen for a Day, you'll hear the answer man luncheon at Sardis and Tiny Ruffner. The ladies man. This is the Mutual Broadcasting System.
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