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Friday, October 10, 1952
THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
SPORTS WORLD by Bill Wo If
JTA's Baseball Orchids
There’s no doubt about it. A1
Rosen, hard-hitting second base-
man fof Hank Greenberg’s Cleve
land Indians, is JTA’s choice as
the most valuable Jewish player
of the year—by a runaway.
When the last ball had been
pitched and the record mathema
ticians had completed their ari
thmetic, Rosen was firmly en
trenched in the number one spot
in the runs batted in division of
American League competition.
A1 belted in 105 tallies. He was
one ahead of Robinson of the
Chicago White Sox and his Cleve
land teammate, Larry Doby, who
each had 102 to tie for second.
This would be enough of a dis
tinction in itself for the guy who
was just completing his second
full season in the majors. But A1
also finished in fifth place as far
as batting was concerned. He had
an average of .302. This mark
might have been much higher,
judging from the number of runs
he drove home, had he not lapsed
into a slump just before the lat
ter part of the season. Just to
round things out, A1 also clouted
28 home runs.
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If the Indians had managed to
cop the American League Flag,
A1 would have taken a big share
of the credit. But that’s just an
“if.” Suffice it to say that he
proved himself an important fac
tor in the last ditch drive by
coming through in the clutch on
a number of occasions. His 105
runs formed a substantial part
of Clevelands season total, and
Rosen was one of the men who
made it possible for the Indians
to give the Yankees such a tus
sle.
To continue closing the books
on the baseball season before
football news gets too heavy,
there were several other Jewish
players who distinguished them
selves this year. Sid Gordon,
Boston Braves outfielder, was
one of the leading home run hit
ters in the National League, with
a total of 25 round-trippers. This
put him in a tie for third place
with teammate Mathews of Bos
ton. Sid, who once played with
the New York Giants, drove in
74 runs and batted .292.
On the mound, Saul Rogovin
of the Chicago White Sox once
again proved himself a valuable
hurler in the American League.
Rogovin, a durable thrower, saw
plenty of action. His total for the
campaign was 14 victories as
against nine defeats, including a
couple of choice ones against fop
clubs. This gave him a pitching
percentage of .609. Altogether,
Saul pitched in 33 games.
Joe Ginsberg, catcher for the
Detroit Tigers, finished the sea
son batting over the .200 mark.
His average was .217, a figure
arrived at after a number of ups
and downs. Ginsberg, who used
to catch for Rogovin when the
latter was with the Tigers, bat
ted in 34 runs, hit five homers
and got 66 hits out of 304 times
at bat. Joe took part in 112
games as one of Detroit’s first
string catchers.
As had been predicted, the
trade of Cal Abrams to the Cin
cinnati Reds from the Brooklyn
Dodgers appeared turning out to
be a good thing for Cal. At
Brooklyn Cal had run into a dead
end against insurmountable
competition that didn’t give him
enough of a chance to play. How
ever, mid-way in the season he
switched uniforms. For a while
he was used in the role of an oc
casional pinch-hitter. But then
he began getting into the line-up
regularly. The result was his
ending the season with a batting
average of .280, not bad consid
ering his upset schedule. Cal
drove in 14 runs, hit two homers,
and got a total of 45 hits in 161
times at bat. He actually only
played in 79 games.
Thus we have the picture of
what the Jewish ball players did
in the 1952 baseball season. There
is no action to report from the
World Series from this column’s
point of view since there were
no Jewish players on either the
Yankee or Dodger squads.
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