Red Ruffing
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Oct 17, 2026
France LauxSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Thank you, Mel, and good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.
France LauxSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Manager Joe Cronin of the hosting American League team is expected to start Fred Ruffing on the mound and follow him up with Buck Newsome and close with either Bob Feller or Al Milnar.
France LauxSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And behind Ruffing, we'll find Cecil Travis of the Washington Senators at third base, who has a batting average for the season of .355.
France LauxSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Fred Williams of the Boston Red Sox in left field, who's been batting .344 so far for the campaign.
France LauxSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Charlie Keller of the New York Yankees will lead off in right field, and he's hitting exactly .303.
France LauxSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Lou Gehrig of the Chicago White Sox will be at short, and he's batting .347 for the season.
France LauxSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And Joe Gordon of the Yankees hitting .250 at second.
France LauxSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Ruffing's pitching record for the 1940 season reads seven victories and six defeats.
Mel AllenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The Yankees were more exuberant over yesterday's triumph than either of the first two because they believe that now they have definitely got the Cubs whipped down, a belief that doesn't harmonize with the shout-outs of, "We're not licked yet," which rang out in the Cubs' dressing room after the game.
Mel AllenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Nevertheless, the Yankees are confident that they will make it four straight today, and Joe McCarthy has selected Red Ruffing to pitch them to their third successive world championship.
Mel AllenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The hefty redhead has had three days of rest and should be in his usual rare form, for all through the season he was at his best when he pitched after a three-day period of inactivity.
Mel AllenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The games in which Ruffing wasn't up to his normal standard were those he worked after extensive layoffs brought about by rainy spells.
6 MINS LATER
Mel AllenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Gordon batting eighth, playing second base, and hitting .417.
Mel AllenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
There's the national anthem.
Mel AllenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Getting back to our lineups now, following Gordon, who's batting eighth for the Yankees, comes Red Ruffing, the pitcher.
Mel AllenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And there go the New York Yankees batting out to their positions on the diamond, and the ball game is about to begin.
France LauxSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Thank you, Mel, and good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.
France LauxSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Manager Joe Cronin of the visiting American League team is expected to start Red Ruffing on the mound and follow him up with Buck Newsome and close with either Bob Feller or Al Milnar.
France LauxSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And behind Ruffing, we'll find Cecil Travis of the Washington Senators at third base, who has a batting average for the season of .355.
France LauxSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox in left field, who's been batting .344 so far for the campaign.
57 MINS LATER
Mel AllenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Seven men batted for the Senior Circuit in the last half of the first inning.
Mel AllenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
There's the long throw down to second, Bill Dickey to Gordon.
Mel AllenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Flips it over to Appling, over to Red Ruffing, doing the pitching for the American League in the first three innings.
Mel AllenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And now Bucky Walters starts to warm up again for the National Leaguers in their bullpen just to the left of the foul line in deep left field.
Lindsey NelsonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Manager Casey Stengel going slowly out to the mound now with the number 37 on his back.
Lindsey NelsonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And the signal goes down to the bullpen, where pitching coach Red Ruffing is standing beside Bob Morehead, who still is warming up.
Lindsey NelsonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And Morehead is going to be coming in.
Lindsey NelsonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Ruffing reaches over, gets the jacket.
2 HRS 4 MINS LATER
Bob MurphySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Last year Blasingame's average fell off to .222, but last time he's a .261 hitter Semin close to third.
Bob MurphySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Fastball on a strike on the inside corner, and Roadblock had plenty on that one.
Bob MurphySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Roadblock has a real good fastball, and Red Ruffing has been working with him trying to get him to go with it more.
Bob MurphySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
[crowd cheering] Sherman out of his wind-up.
Graham McNameeSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Will it be pitchers or will it be hitters? A difference of opinion, eh? Well, that's what makes horse racing.
Graham McNameeSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Aside from the players mentioned, the Americans have as pitchers Red Ruffing of the Yanks, Tom Bridges of the Tigers, Mel Harder of the Indians.
Graham McNameeSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Tom, how's Mel doing? Pretty good?
Bill MundySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Pretty good.
1 HR 8 MINS LATER
Tom ManningSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Now the count on Manager Bill is strike two.
Tom ManningSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Last half of the fourth inning, one out, nobody on.
Tom ManningSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Red Ruffing of the New York Yankees, a right-hander, pitching.
Tom ManningSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
There's a line smash upstairs in left field, but it's foul, and the count remains strike two.
Warren BrownSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Before the game today, Bill Terry told me that he intended to come in with Cliff Melton, and I imagine he will come in with him, Melton being the young left-hander who has won his 20 games in his first full year up here in the major leagues.
Warren BrownSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Joe McCarthy of the Yankees said that he intended to pitch Red Ruffing tomorrow, and Joe was inclined to go a little further.
Warren BrownSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
When he talked to me, Joe is an old friend of mine, and he spoke his mind out to me down there in the Yankee dugout before the game.
Warren BrownSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He said that he didn't think that he would go away from a platform that he established, uh, rather effectively last year.
Warren BrownSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He said that it would be Gomez today, Ruffing tomorrow, and after that, Monte Pearson and Bump Hadley.
Warren BrownSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And unless the Giants pull themselves together and tear after Melton, I imagine that's the way the Yankees will go through, with the same four pitchers that they used in the World Series last year.
Warren BrownSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The, uh, game t- today was certainly an interesting one.
Curt GowdySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
[bat hits ball] Strike two, nothing and two.
Curt GowdySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Red Ruffing used to get a double payment with the New York Yankees, one check for pitching and one for pinch hitting.
Curt GowdySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The 0 and 2 delivery.
Curt GowdySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Outside, ball one.
Dave DriscollSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
However, this year, the hitting department seems to be pretty well matched, and the pitching superiority would seem to favor the American Leaguers, piloted by Joe McCarthy manager of the New York Yankees, who stepped into the breach made by the ailing Connie Mack of the Athletics, originally named manager of the American Leaguers.
Dave DriscollSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The pitching staff of the American League team consists of Big Red Ruffing of the Yankees, Tommy Bridges of the Detroit Tigers, and Bob Feller, the schoolboy wonder of the Cleveland Indians.
Dave DriscollSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And sharing the mounds of the National League will be Paul Derringer of the Reds, who, by the way, cleared up his battle with the courts just in time to make the game, Big Bill Lee of the Chicago Cubs, and Whitlow Wyatt, who's been a tower of strength with the Brooklyn Dodgers this season.
Dave DriscollSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We'll give you the rest of the lineup in just a few minutes, but that gives you a picture of what sort of competition we're going to see on the mound here at Yankee Stadium today.
9 MINS LATER
Dave DriscollSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Joe Cronin of the Red Sox at shortstop, 287.
Dave DriscollSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
George Belkirk of the Yankees in left field, 296.
Dave DriscollSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Joe Gordon of the Yankees, second base, 317, and Red Ruffing of the Yankees on the mound, 111 and lost three.
Dave DriscollSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And now before I present Al Helfer, may I say to our mutual listeners that Bob Elson of station WGN in Chicago, who was to have been here to augment our staff this afternoon, is unfortunately in a Chicago hospital, a victim of old man flu.
Phil RizzutoSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You know, there are a lot of pitchers who figure they don't have to run and slide or hustle when they get on base, they just have to pitch.
Phil RizzutoSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But you take some of the other pitchers, fellas like Spahn and Red Ruffing and Bert Blyleven, they get on there just like another ballplayer.
Phil RizzutoSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
There goes Kubek.
Phil RizzutoSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The ball is hit slowly down the first base line.
Sam MadoniaHOST
Mm-hmm
TommyAUDIENCE
... she had thousands of them, was a picture of Red Ruffing, her uncle, and Babe Ruth, both of them laughing.
TommyAUDIENCE
Babe Ruth's swinging a bat at Red Ruffing.
TommyAUDIENCE
At like a gag photo.
TommyAUDIENCE
And they were both grinning real big.
Sam MadoniaHOST
[laughs]
TommyAUDIENCE
And I didn't realize that not only was Red Ruffing a Hall of Fame pitcher for the Yankees, he al- he has the batting average record for a pitcher.
TommyAUDIENCE
He could hit the ball, too.
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