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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 and a . He was selected to represent Texas-New Mexico League, .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, . His double in the minor-league career in 1954. He batted .324 with 19 JUNE 28, 1950 sixth 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 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 "SWISHED HOME left, scoring Glaviano, but Musial was tagged 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 into a . later at Mankato Teachers College in Minnesota. league organization and Dobkowski was back in within three "' 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 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 single to third. 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 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 in 1950, and in his five-season skipper 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 , 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 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 . 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 in 1964. Boyer had faced seven batters, yielding only one 7 Lee Grimsley, "He's Cat's Whiskers in Fort Worth — Why their longest 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 , 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 sweep placed St. Louis retired Walker on a popout to short to start the home in a tie for first place with the Phillies.5 team's fifth, but then Cavarretta singled, St. Louis got to Lade in the opening frame, as walked, and "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, stroked a double to grounded to second. Chicago's first eight runs were driven in with home runs.

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Singles by and Bill Howerton and a as Pafko and Cavaretta each hit three-run shots, and by 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 , 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, 5 throwing player to hit down a , but Hearn made a Smalley became the third Cubs for (GAME ONE OF and both runners were . Ramazzotti then the cycle, joining (June 23, 1930), and DOUBLEHEADER) 8-2 lead), advancing the runners. 3o, 1933).9 There were fi bunted (with an (September ve By Richard Cuicchi Hearn uncorked a wild and Serena scored. cycles in the 195o season: Detroit's (June Walker singled in Lade, and the pitcher scored z)' 's (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 (August 2); and Detroit's 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. their last two rounds that they netted seven hits, four prodigious home-run hitters (225) in the National The Phillies struck first with two outs in the top of them for extra bases."7 In the seventh, Edwards SOURCES League through 1954, second only to Hall of Famer of the second on a single by and a doubled, Smalley singled, and Serena doubled before In addition to the sources mentioned in the Notes, the author Ralph Kiner (277). On August 28,1950, the Chicago baseball-reference.com, mlb.com, and .org. double by , who was thrown out at Hearn retired a Chicago batter. With one out, consulted Cubs highlighted his propensity as a third trying to stretch his hit into a triple. Ramazzotti hit an RBI single, driving in Serena. power hitter by slamming three home runs against Sauer, who had played in his first All-Star Game Sauer "opened the eighth with a double for which he NOTES the Philadelphia Phillies. on July it, led off is going to write and Bill Howerton a Homers Against Cards; the bottom of the second with a , "Cubs Say It With Sauer had suffered a hitting drought from July 19 note of thanks."$ A routine fly ball dropped between Munger Kayoed in 3 Innings," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, solo home run off Simmons to even the score, f-r. through August 18, a period in which he failed to hit the two . Sauer moved to third on Pafko's June 28, 195o: 28. led off the Phillies' third with a walk a home run and managed to get only six RBIs while sacrifice bunt (Chicago's third of the game). Edwards 2 Ibid. and was forced at second base on a comebacker by batting just.I89.' Then he went on a home-run binge, singled and Smalley tripled, bringing the score to According to the Chicago Tribune, there were also 12,953 Simmons. Leonard then yielded his second run when 3 hitting two on both August 24 and 25, and then three 15-3. Roy Smalley had hit for the cycle. "guests" in attendance, in addition to the 12,109 "cash tripled. customers." See Irving Vaughan, "Cubs Whip Cards, 15-3," days later putting on his home-run fireworks show. Lade limited the Cardinals' powerful lineup The Phillies added a third run in the top of the Chicago Tribune, June 29, 2950: 47-48. A doubleheader on August 28 was required to nine hits; St. Louis tallied solo scores in three fourth on a single by , a sacrifice by Willie 4 Vaughan. because the second game of the Cubs-Phillies different innings. Lade earned his fourth victory Jones, and a single by Hamner. 5 According to retrosheet.org, the Phillies and Cardinals doubleheader at Wrigley Field on the previous of the season. It was his first of the 1, and St. Sauer was the were tied for first place, as Philadelphia was 35-24- day ended in a 4-4 tie, called it innings because Cubs' leadoff batter again in the season. The 15 runs scored were the most for the Cubs Louis was 36-25. However, baseball-reference.com placed of fourth, and he belted his second home run, but the the Phillies darkness.' thus far in the 1950 season. Four games later, on July the Cards in second place, one-half game behind Cubs still trailed, 3-2. This was the third game in (presumably because of the tie game). Both the St. Louis Post- According to the Chicago Tribune, the attendance z, they tallied 16 runs in a shutout against Cincinnati. Sauer's last seven in which he had homered twice. Dispatch and Chicago Tribune have the two teams tied at the was 19,756. It was a relatively meaningless game for Glaviano was the leading Cardinals batter with end of play on June 27, 195o. In the sixth, Sauer the Cubs, who were in sixth place, zzlh games behind hit his third homer of the game two doubles and a single, but he scored only one run. after Phil Cavarretta 6 Broeg. the league-leading Phillies. The Phillies, dubbed singled, and the Cubs led, 4-3, Musial drove in two. Munger didn't survive the third for the first time. 7 Vaughan. for their young roster, had not won a inning, and his record fell to 3-5. Hearn had faced z6 8 Ibid. pennant since 1915, and were trying to maintain their The Cubs added three more runs off Simmons in (nine earned) Cubs batters, and he allowed to runs century: five the bottom of the seventh on 9 hit for the cycle twice in the nineteenth -game lead over the Brooklyn Dodgers. Wayne Terwilliger's on ro hits and three walks. Stockings, and on July 28, 1888, as part of the Chicago White The Cubs drew left-hander solo home run, his eighth of the season, and Roy of of Every Cubs position player had at least one hit on July s, 1891, as a member of the Chicago Colts. Both the Smalley's double, which drove in Cavarretta and Bob predecessors of the Cubs. Phillies as the opposing pitcher. Simmons was and every player, including pitcher Lade, scored at those teams were Borkowski with what 16-7, having won 8 of his last ro decisions, and was turned out to be the winning least one run. Chicago displayed its home-run power, runs. a key component in the Phillies' run at the league relieved Simmons and denied

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