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Loy Smalley Hits for the Cycle and Drives in Foul? WRIGLEY FIELD: THE FRIENDLY CONFINES AT CLARK AND ADDISON Classic in New York and was named the game's Most Paul Dobkowski, who accompanied Will to Valuable Player after driving in three runs with a New York, spent 1951 with Lubbock in the West LOY SMALLEY HITS FOR single and a double. He was selected to represent Texas-New Mexico League, batting .271. He was THE CYCLE AND DRIVES IN FOUL?, the Windy City after excelling at J. Sterling Morton then drafted into the military, and resumed his High School in Cicero, Illinois. His double in the minor-league career in 1954. He batted .324 with 19 JUNE 28, 1950 sixth inning scored the first two runs for the US All- homers and 95 RBIs for the Artesia Numexers in the Stars. His bases-loaded single in the seventh inning Class-C Longhorn League. In 1957, he was with El CHICAGO CUBS 15, ST. LOUIS CARDINALS 3 plated two more and tied the game at 5-5. The tie was Paso in the Class-B Southwestern League, where he By c7Vlike tuber broken when the next batter, Ralph Felton, drove in clubbed 13 homers and batted .326 in 77 games. The two runs with a single. team was dropped from the league on July 17,8 and There wasn't much in the way of big money in Dobkowski elected to return to Chicago rather than those days, and the offers received by Will were join the Corpus Christi squad in the Class-B Big in the range of s6,000 to s8,000. Bob decided to State League.9 Five seasons of strong minor-league THE CHICAGO CUBS "SWISHED HOME RUN left, scoring Glaviano, but Musial was tagged out pursue his education at Northwestern University and play were not enough to get a contract with a big- bats that belted big George Munger out of the box trying to stretch the hit into a triple. later at Mankato Teachers College in Minnesota. league organization and Dobkowski was back in within three innings"' and went on to crush the St. The Cubs responded in the bottom of the second. He signed with the Chicago Cubs in 1954 and was Chicago playing semipro ball in 1958. Louis Cardinals 15-3 at Wrigley Field, behind the With one out, Hank Edwards singled into right field. assigned to Magic Valley, Idaho, in the Pioneer Chicago would continue to send players to the hitting-for-the-cycle performance of Roy Smalley. blast over the left-field League. He excelled during his first years in the New York games through 1957, but nothing would Smalley followed with a The overcast skies "and a few drops of rain"" before wall, his 12th home run of the season, and this put minors, batting .359, •335 and .304 as he rose in the ever quite replicate the events in 1949. Bobby Will game time did not deter the crowd of 12,109 from Chicago ahead. An inning later, Bob Ramazzotti Cubs' organization. Will first made it to the majors was the only player who performed at Wrigley in the rooting the home team on.3 beat out a bunt single to third. Rube Walker drew in 1957 with the Cubs, appearing in 70 games, but Herald-American game and returned to Wrigley as a Doyle Lade pitched for Chicago, making just a free pass from Munger, and Phil Cavarretta sent a spent the 1957 and 1958 seasons shuttling back and major-league player. his fifth start of the season and first start in three right-field wall. The first forth between Chicago and the minors. In 1959, he Munger offering over the weeks. He had been predominantly a reliever for three Cubs batters had scored, prompting Cardinals played the full season (162 games) at Triple-A Fort NOTES manager Frankie Frisch in 1950, and in his five-season skipper Eddie Dyer to make a change. Cloyd Boyer Worth, batted .336, with a career-high 203 hits, and Wendell Smith, "Former American Giants Set for Old- career (all with the Cubs), he started 64 of the 126 relieved Munger and retired the Cubs in order. He was named the American Association's MVP. There Timers Game," Chicago Herald-American, July 6, 1949: z6. games in which he appeared. Lade was opposed by pitched two scoreless frames but was taken out of the was a sense of frustration when he said, toward the 2 Tommy Kouzmanoff, "Evelyn Knight Shows Prep Stars How three-time All-Star Red Munger, a solid member baserunning play. end of the 1959 season, "I hope I can make it this next to Hit," Chicago Herald-American, July 7, 1949: z8. game after injuring his ankle on a of the Cardinals rotation, bringing a 3.54 ERA into With two outs in the top of the fifth, Boyer singled. year. I'd like to play a few years up there in the big 3 Fred Slater, "Thousands See Stars Play for Charity Here," the game. Boyer time before I begin to slow up."7 Chicago Herald-American, July to, 1949: 5. Glaviano followed with another single, and Chicago had been holding down fourth or fifth hurt his left ankle running to second base. Ery Dusak The next three years, Will was with the Cubs for 4 Tommy Kouzmanoff, "Dobkowski, Will Picked to Play in Hearst N.Y. Game," Chicago Herald-American, July place in the National League since about mid-May, came in to run for him, but the Cardinals could the whole season. In 1960 he batted .255and hit six 12, 1949: 21. with even a one-week drop into sixth near the end not capitalize. of his nine major-league homers. In June 1963, he 5 Rhinelander (Wisconsin) Daily News, July IS, 1949: 6. of May. With a 29-29 record, their longest winning pitcher. was dispatched to Triple A, and he finished up at Jim Hearn entered as the new St. Louis 6 Janesville (Wisconsin) Daily Gazette, April 21, 1950: 15. streak of the season was just four games (twice), and Jacksonville in the International League in 1964. Boyer had faced seven batters, yielding only one 7 Lee Grimsley, "He's Cat's Whiskers in Fort Worth — Why their longest losing streak was only three games (also hit, a harmless double to Smalley in the bottom of While still playing ball, Will accepted an offer to Can't Bob Move Up?' The Sporting News, August 26, 1959: 29. twice), but they had dropped their previous three, the fourth. Hearn then finished the pitching duties work at a local bank, and was very successful after 8 El Paso Herald-Post, July 20, 1957: 8. having been "spanked twice by the Cardinals"4 on for the Cards, pitching the final four innings. He his playing days in many executive banking positions. 9 Corpus Christi Caller-Times, July 28, 1957: C-I. June 27. That doubleheader sweep placed St. Louis retired Walker on a popout to short to start the home in a tie for first place with the Philadelphia Phillies.5 team's fifth, but then Cavarretta singled, Hank Sauer St. Louis got to Lade in the opening frame, as walked, and Andy Pafko "hit his tenth home run into Tommy Glaviano doubled into the left-center gap. the left field bleachers."6 Edwards and Smalley each Two batters later, Stan Musial stroked a double to grounded to second. Chicago's first eight runs were driven in with home runs. 146 147 WRIGLEY FIELD: THE FRIENDLY CONFINES AT CLARK AND ADDISON Singles by Enos Slaughter and Bill Howerton and a as Pafko and Cavaretta each hit three-run shots, and sacrifice fly by Red Schoendienst plated the Cardinals' Smalley's blast was good for two runs. Smalley had T Oar second run of the game in their half of the sixth been batting in the seventh spot of the batting order, inning. Hearn became a bit unglued in the bottom probably due to his .2,57 average. His 4-for-5 game AUGUST 28, 1950 half. After Bill Serena worked a leadoff walk, Lade put raised that mark 13 points. CHICAGO CUBS 7, PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES 5 throwing player to hit down a sacrifice bunt, but Hearn made a Smalley became the third Cubs for (GAME ONE OF error and both runners were safe. Ramazzotti then the cycle, joining Hack Wilson (June 23, 1930), and DOUBLEHEADER) 8-2 lead), advancing the runners. 3o, 1933).9 There were fi bunted (with an Babe Herman (September ve By Richard Cuicchi Hearn uncorked a wild pitch and Serena scored. cycles in the 195o season: Detroit's George Kell (June Walker singled in Lade, and the pitcher scored z)' Pittsburgh's Ralph Kiner (June 25, just three days Chicago's roth run of the game. before Smalley); Smalley; the Philadelphia Athletics' St. Louis loaded the bases with one out in the Elmer Valo (August 2); and Detroit's Hoot Evers top of the seventh, and a groundout by Musial drove (September 7). Seven years would go by before the HANK SAUER'S MAJOR-LEAGUE CAREER championship. Forty-one-year-old knuckleballer in a run, his second RBI of the day. According to next player in a Cubs uniform hit for the cycle (Lee didn't flourish until he was 31 years old in 1948, Dutch Leonard got the Cubs' starting nod, his only the Chicago Tribune, "'The Cubs had so much fun in Walls on July 2, 1957). but then he proceeded to become one of the most start in 35 appearances for the season.
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