Joe Cronin League begins 1952 season

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The 1952 season is now five games old on the day real baseball begins another of its marathon races over this coming summer.
The Joe Cronin League National League begins its' 1952 season hoping for a repeat of the two previous seasons that both featured memorable races and two different winners.

In 1950 the Pittsburg Pirates went an incredible 54-27 to win the regular season title but were knocked off in the NLCS by the New York Nets (46-35) who finished a rather distant eight games behind the Pirates but upset the Buccos only to lose the World Series to the American League wild card team, the Boston Red Stocking (48-33). Boston over came American League pennant winner, the Anaheim Surfers (50-31).

In 1951 the National League put together a tense four team race that went down to the final day of the season. Brooklyn (47-34), Montreal (46-35), St. Louis (45-36 and Milwaukee (43-38) were the participants with the Brooklyn Ally Cats prevailed only to lose to the American League representative, the LA Outlaws (48-33), who took out the AL Wild Card team, the Toronto 1977 (47-34).

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MONTREAL 6 NEW YORK 2
The Montreal Expos began their season at home by dropping their first two games to the Pittsburgh Pirates before salvaging the final game behind Lenny Gorsica followed by two wins over New York by 12-4 and 6-2 scores.

The second game of this series was won by Montreal number five starter Roy Hearron who began his season by going nine innings for the win allowing eight hits two runs did not walk a batter and struck out five.

New York took a 2-0 lead in the top of the first inning thanks to singles by Dave Sharon, and Charlie Merson followied by a two run double by Duane Tiernay.

Hearron then shutout New York on five hits the remainder of the game.

Montreal leveled the score in the bottom of the fourth inning. New York starter and losing pitcher George Detwhiler walked Montreal first baseman Pete Bransfield and third baseman Cliff Strauss singled on a ground ball that just sneaked through the infield into centerfield, setting up one of Montreal's hottest batters catcher Eddie Zahn to drive in both runs with a double.

Zahn is hitting .857 with three runs batted in.

Centerfielder Dick Reyes also off to a hot start, batting 571, hit his first homerun of the season and drove in run number six to begin the 5th inning. The blast went to left center field and gave Montreal the lead 3-2.

Pinch hitter Ed Perranoski hit a three run pinch homer in the eight inning to seal it for Montreal.

Final Score 6-2 Montreal.