DREWS' "ALMOST" NO-HITTERS
"High spots of Pitcher Karl Drews' career were one-hitters for the Yankees against the Red Sox in 1947 and for the Phillies against Brooklyn in 1952.
'In the game against Boston, Yogi was playing left field,' the 38-year-old right-hander now with Nashville related recently. 'Birdie Tebbetts hit a ball out there. Yogi misjudged it. He came in but the ball went over his head. If he'd stayed in position, he'd have caught it and I'd have a no-hitter.
'Jackie Robinson, the third hitter for the Dodgers, got the hit off me in Brooklyn. It was a grounder in front of Willie Jones at third base but it took a high hop over his shoulder.' "
-George Leonard, Nashville Banner (Baseball Digest, September 1958)
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