Phil Rizzutos Sports Caravan 1 Bill Stern 1954

Bill Resuto's Sports Caravan Now let's climb aboard the Sports Caravan for a new packed feature filled quarter hour with baseball's number one short stop Star of the World Champion New York Yankees and in 1950 voted the American League's most valuable player Bill Resuto Hello there fans and after the winter layoff I'm really happy to get our radio sports caravan rolling again

We're loading up with a lot of fine sports features for you each time and a little later in the show i'm going to bring on a popular personality you all know but first filled with a new baseball season getting underway i'm sure the fans would like to get a line on how you figure the nineteen fifty four major

league pennant race well i knew that which was coming up we played most of the american and national league teams in spring training games i've had the chance to look the clubs over pretty well but you know how i hate going on the limb picking the pennant races but well don't go out too far filled with let's get some sort of a picture first of your

own league the american well there's no question in my mind the Yankees will have a rough time making at six pennants in a row, cheaply because several of the other clubs have picked up important strength.

Sure, we added Big Harry Bird to our pitching staff in the big winter trade with the A's, but don't forget the senators also bolted their pitching staff. In a deal that many baseball men couldn't figure out, Washington somehow swiped 18-game winner Maury McDermott away from the Red Sox, along with Tommy Umplett in exchange for Jackie Jensen.