Word: aarons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...While big-league baseball was reorganizing its rosters, baseball writers were riffling through their memories and replaying the past. Most Valuable Player in the National League, they decided, was Milwaukee Outfielder Hank Aaron. But the vote was as close as the pennant race, and St. Louis' First Baseman Stan Musial, National League batting champion (for the seventh time), finished only 9 points back. Most Valuable Player in the American League: the New York Yankees' bad-legged Outfielder Mickey Mantle (batting average for the season: .365), who limped in 26 points ahead of Boston's Ted Williams...
Actually, passive as he may seem in comparison with his predecessors, today's student is anything but smug. Says Daniel Aaron, professor of English at Smith: "If young people behaved after World War II exactly as they did before it, there would really be something wrong with them." The student now simply faces a different kind of world. It demands that he be brighter, more conscientious, more in earnest than his predecessors. If he refuses to play the rebel, it is probably because he feels he must cover too much ground to prepare himself for the future. Perhaps...
...Hank Aaron of Milwaukee for Hall of Fame; Faubus of Arkansas for Hall of Shame...
...start of the uproar over Little Rock one night last September, six hooded men grabbed a Negro named Judge Aaron on a lonely road in Alabama, took him to a deserted shack, castrated him with a razor blade, poured turpentine into the wound (TIME, Sept. 16). Six members of the Ku Klux Klan were arrested by Alabama police and charged with mayhem. One of the men explained: "We just wanted some nigger at random...
...coup also made him the first pitcher in 52 years to score two shutouts in a single Series, first ever to shut out the Yankees in two Series games. It was all the more impressive because the Braves gave Burdette remarkably little help at bat. Although Centerfielder Hank Aaron hit three home runs and a total of eleven hits (one less than the Series record), the new champions together set a record as the lowest-hitting team ever to win a seven-game Series (average...