Big League baseball picks up this week exactly where it left off in 1942. Old Ted Lyons is an extreme case, but he is also typical. Ted went off to war three years ago, and it looked like the end of big league ball for him. He had reached 42, which is true antiquity in baseball. Even so, he pitched so well his last year (on Sundays only) with his head and a knuckle ball that Chicagoans used to say: "If every day was Sunday, the White Sox might make it."
Now Ted Lyons, fresh...
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