Books and articles about Vic Lombardi

RELATED LINKS » "Hatten and little Lombardi were two lefthanders and both of them were better than fair pitchers": Clyde Sukeforth

Lombardi fanned 19 batters in a game twice in one week in the 1941 Penn State Association. Scouts who went to check him out were surprised to find he was just 5'7" and 158 pounds. But by the last year of WWII, with talent scarce, Lombardi's size was overlooked. Given a chance, he won between 10 and 13 games a season as a .500 pitcher for the 1945-47 Dodgers and the 1948 Pirates. (JK)

FROM THE BASEBALL CHRONOLOGY » December 8, 1947: In a move that will anchor The Boys of Summer, Brooklyn acquires SS Billy Cox, P Preacher Roe, and infielder Gene Mauch from Pittsburgh for pitchers Vic Lombardi, Hal Gregg, and former batting champ, 37-year-old Dixie Walker. In the spring Walker had requested in writing to be traded, but then changed his mind.