Description: Yes we combine shipping for most multiple item purchases.Add multiple items to your cart and the combined shipping total will automatically be calculated. 1949 Detroit Tigers Johnny Groth Baseball Rookie - 3-Page Vintage Article Original, vintage magazine articlePage Size: Approx. 10 1/2" x 14" (27 cm x 35 cm) each pageCondition: Good SCOUT’S DREAMDetroit’s Johnny Groth is hailedas baseball’s brightest new starThe young man in the picture above is depart-ing the batter’s box en route to second base. Thisis a fairly frequent excursion for Johnny Groth, a22-ycar-old rookie center fielder for the DetroitTigers. Groth has hit six doubles so far this year,as well as five home runs. Last year with Buffalohe hit 30 homers, 37 doubles and 16 triples andhad a batting average of .340.A prep-school star in Chicago, Groth got big-time tutelage from Bob Feller at the Great LakesTraining Station while both were doing a hitchin the Navy. Still modest and a little nervous(pp. 42, 44), he tries to take a skeptical view ofhis early season flood of publicity. Rival playerscompare him to both DiMaggios, and even sucha connoisseur of baseball talent as "Wish” Egan,Tiger scout, has described him as “the type a scoutdreams about finding just once in a generation.” IN GAME WITH PHILADELPHIA, DETROIT’S ROOKIE CENTER FIELDER JOHNNY GROTH GETS AWAY FROM PLATE FAST AFTER TWO-BASE HIT DEEP INTO THE OUTFIELD
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