Eastern Kentucky University Encompass The Athlete Kentucky High School Athletic Association 11-1-1940 The Kentucky High School Athlete, November 1940 Kentucky High School Athletic Association Follow this and additional works at: http://encompass.eku.edu/athlete Recommended Citation Kentucky High School Athletic Association, "The Kentucky High School Athlete, November 1940" (1940). The Athlete. Book 419. http://encompass.eku.edu/athlete/419 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Kentucky High School Athletic Association at Encompass. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Athlete by an authorized administrator of Encompass. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. PAUL DERRINGER Kentucky's Gift to the World's Champs - -~ .r ···:. •I!.,_.~ ,--.c..-.u~c,_.c...-t,._c•~~..._<-t-r•~·'....,..'_'_,._...,~-•,--.:l.-..._...t• -c-(~C.-c,.-.c-~~~\•-:.• i I PAUL DERRINGER ! I Fe\v Kentucky High School athletes have come in for greater :-Jational ac claim than Paul Derringer, 1940 World Series hero, Kentucky's gift to the great National Pastime. I Derringer was a high school star in Springfield, Kentucky, where he played tackle on the football team \vhen the w·cather was too cold to handle a baseball. But baseball was his first love. and his exploits in the National League for the past I ten years are almost too well known to baseball fans to bear further comment. I A release from the office of Gabriel Paul, P ublicity Director of t he ·world's I Champion Cincinnati Reds, reads : Greatest control pitcher in the Major Leagues i today is Paul Derringer, winner of 25 games for the l\ational T.eag ue Champions last year, and third in the League in earned runs, walked only 35 men in 301 innings pitched.