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A high school track star and son of a violinist in the Metropolitan Opera orchestra, Drebinger was the oldest writer traveling the baseball circuit when he retired at age 73. He began with the weekly Staten Island Advance and joined the New York Times in 1923. He covered every World Series for the Times from 1929 to 1963. In 1973 he received the J.G. Taylor Spink Award from the Hall of Fame. (NLM)
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FROM THE BASEBALL CHRONOLOGY
»August 25th, 1952: In a 1-0 win over the Yankees in Yankee Stadium,
Virgil Trucks of the Detroit Tigers pitches his second no-hitter of the season. The no-hitter is in doubt for three innings when a play made by SS Johnny Pesky in the third inning is under debate. The official scorer, John Drebinger, records it as an error when Pesky has trouble getting a ball hit by Phil Rizzuto out of his glove. Dan Daniel of The New York World Telegram convinces Drebinger that it cannot be ruled an error because the ball was stuck in the fielder's glove, and Rizzuto is awarded a hit. In the sixth inning, with Trucks not having given up another hit, Drebinger calls Pesky in the dugout from the press box, and the SS says that he should be given the error rather than Rizzuto the hit. The call is changed again, and Trucks's no-hitter is preserved. Trucks's record is now 5-15.
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