(Columbia Daily Tribune, August 29, 1953)
College baseball is eight months away, but Missouri's Coach John Simmons already is mourning the loss of two good pitchers and an outfielder. John Willingham, one of the pitchers, has signed with the St. Louis Cardinals organization and has been assigned to St. Joseph, while the other, John Jenkins, has notified Simmons that he has gotten married and gone into business at Lexington and does not expect to return to the university this Fall.
Bob Bishop is the departed outfielder. He has signed with the Brooklyn organization and, like Willingham, has been assigned to a minor league club for seasoning.
"In 1952, the Tigers had been runner-up in their first trip to the College World Series, an event founded in 1947 and held then as now in Omaha, Neb. This was a different team in '54, with only three seniors who'd been there before."
(Columbia Daily Tribune, May 14, 1994)
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