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L*aKOtwomeed ound, win-lt;now. t but t thoted ft sixth Ho-Zano which roundtH. •man*tig to losing n Ra-• runs(the oldest active players In professional baseball, la having another big season.This.Is at least hla 27th year in the game, It Isn't likely to be hlg last either.At the halfway mark of the Gulf Coast League season, Caldwell had won 13 games pitching for Harlingen's Capitols,Won 23 Last YearHe is used mainly in relief but I lie’s still the wlnnlngest hurler in this Class B circuit. Six of those victories were gained in lees than three innings on the mound. When the portly veteran, who looks more like the vice-president of a bank •than a pitcher, strolls to the hill, the whole club, which averages approximately 20 years less than the published figures in Caldwell’sSfourLAKER PILOT FINES SELFtwo years now. Last season he won 22 games.The former major leaguer—he played with the St. Louis Browns in the late thirties and the Chicago )Vhite Sox in the forties— relies mostly on a sharp breaking curve, nearly perfect control and headwork.The Gulf Coast League is known as a hitter’s circuit, but hot when Caldwell is pltrohing. He allowed less than two earned runs per game in 1851 and his permitted only 2-t in almost 100 innings thisseason.As late as 1945 he wae pitching for the White Sox, then, as now, seeing most of his action in relief. He pitched to Joe DiMaggio back in 1937 when the Yankee clipper plaj'-cu’Tiis first big league game. With Waco lu 1926Caldwell Is listed by the Har-Kngon., club as 43 years of age but privately they’ll tell you he is somewhat older, Caldwell justYochim in 4 3 HBP — Ynchln Winner—Bum gar Zctz and MazuWICHITA FA LI LoBtanc cf Murray 2b .... Morgan 3b Queen rf van Email if* , pruittar lb ' «»». Malnzcr 'an -»« Maqcuso c Damico p ..Totals; hits •5 Vi’l-other three ahead v Inner n’s on t and lo one nt. Aj ns as’o but landed0 Gnr-slnglo n to a j, Tlionetted nlt;i the lugged Hubert1 thirdwolfth,Erick-LAKE CHARLES, La,. July 3. (AR);—What's the old any. big—practice what you preach?Ask Lake Charles Lakers’ Manager Joe Kracher, Last night,he got socked five bucks under ft penalty rule he had established to try to pull hla team out of the Gulf Coast League’ caller.Any player who doesn’t huatlo gets fined $5, according to hla new team ruling. 'In the eighth inning of the Lakers - Texan City game (Which Lake Chari on won) last night, Kracher slapped a Blow roller back to Texas City pitcher MelGrifln.Tho pitcher scooped tho ball easily and Kracher—ha If way down tho bane line-’—stopped running.Griffin whirled, took hia time, throw the ball away from tho first baseman who had to scamper, for tho catch and rush hack for the putout that wouldn’t have been made If Kracher followed his own edict.grins. Nor will he say when hestarted playing ball. The Texas League has him listed as pitching for Waco In 1926. This is believed to have been his first year in professional baseball.Caldwell despito hia age—most folks think it's 47—says he could probably atlH go two or three innings in the majors but not much more. Anyway, Caldwell chooses to play here in his home town where he’s in the citrus business.LONGVIEW GlitftHori 3bHunt as ......Moore cf Dvo icy c DftppfirscbmldtMaul lb ......Anderson 2b Bcarpaee rt ♦, Albers pTotalsWichita Falla LoPKVlewFalla 7, Lofifgvf* t, SO—Albers 3 Mitchell. T—1:3Ump Enters HospitalNEW YORK, July 3. l/fl — Cm-piro Art Pnssarella of the American League staff entered a hospital today for treatment of a badly-pulled muscle in hl3 left thigh. Passarella suffered tho injury in last night’s game here,Reds Option HauastadCINCINNATI, July 3. m — TlRobinscS x-WeNEW YORdie weight Cl today was 01 to take a t weeks. This scheduled cAlbert Yvcl Aug. 2 will Dr. Vince son’s doctorheat prostrt25 in his f ordeiTheCincinnati Rods today sold pitcher Phil Hnugstd to Toronto of the International League. Obtained, from Brooklyn on May 28, he pitched 12 innings in nine games, [for Cincinnati. He neither won nor lost a game.1 havepleto rest fc rest, ho wil bout In Isr Robinson round of his bout with M greo heat i:
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Corpus Christi Times
Corpus Christi, Texas, US
Thu, Jul 03, 1952
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