(Columbia Daily Tribune, March 11, 1954)
With the basketball season over, five University of Missouri cagers joined Coach John Simmons' baseball squad yesterday afternoon, and a sixth is expected to report next week.
The five new additions yesterday included outfielders Gene Sally and Kent Henson, infielders Dick Jensen and Herb Morgan, and catcher Lloyd Elmore. The first four won freshmen numerals last season, while Elmore was a member of the the varsity squad.
Bob Schoonmaker, a two-year letterman first baseman, also was a member of the basketball squad and plans to join the baseballers next week.
Simmons had his men outdoors for the second straight day yesterday and managed to get in a four-inning practice game before the weather interfered.
Braves Bank on Negro Rookie To Fill Bobby Thompson's Shoes
(Columbia Daily Tribune, March 1954)
Bobby Thomson's injury has catapulted into the spotlight with the Milwaukee Braves a 20-year-old Negro youth who never has played higher than Class A ball. He is Henry Aaron who, until last Saturday when Thomson fractured his right ankle, was ticketed for Toledo of the American association.
The only reason he was in the Milwaukee camp was so the Braves could get a good look at the lad who led the Sally league with a .362 batting average last year.
1954 schedule
(Home Games Bold)
4/3 Fort Leonard Wood
4/6 Fort Leonard Wood
4/9 Arkansas
4/10 Arkansas
4/16 Oklahoma A&M
4/17 Oklahoma A&M
4/19 Tulsa
4/20 Tulsa
4/26 Iowa State
4/27 Iowa State
4/30 Kansas
5/1 Kansas
5/7 Kansas State
5/8 Kansas State
5/10 Colorado
5/11 Colorado
5/14 Oklahoma
5/15 Oklahoma
5/17 Nebraska
5/18 Nebraska
5/21 Iowa State
5/22 Iowa State
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