DUANE PILLETTE
"Dee is a good workman on the mound. He appeared in 31 games for the 1953 edition of the St. Louis Browns, winning 7 and losing 13. His record could have had more wins with a stronger hitting team behind him.
Dee was property of the Yankees, his first major league club. He began in pro ball in 1946 with Newark, where he had an 11-10 record. He reached the Yankees in 1949 after spending most of the season with the Newark. He was traded to the Browns in 1950."
-1954 Bowman No. 133
"In June of 1953 the Yankees were on an 18-game winning streak and the Browns were on a 14-game losing streak. Duane broke both, beating the Yankees 3-1.
Starting at Newark in 1946, Duane won 11 decisions and won a trial with the Yankees in '49. After being traded to the Browns in '50 he chalked up his best big league win mark in '52 with 10 victories.
The year that Duane was born, his father won 19 games for Detroit. It was natural that young Duane wanted to be a pitcher like his dad. Because of his father's teaching and the tutoring of his coach at Portland, Duane is now a major leaguer."
-1954 Topps No. 107
KARL DREWS
"Karl appeared in 47 games for the Phillies in 1953, winning 9 and losing 10.
He signed with the Yankees after he turned up, uninvited, at a tryout camp. In his first year in pro ball he had a 16-5 record with Butler of the Pennsylvania State League. He was in the Yankee farm system for a good number of years, finally making the majors at the end of the 1946 season after posting 19-9 and 14-9 seasons with Newark and Kansas City in 1945 and 1946."
-1954 Bowman No. 191
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