Word: bats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Most Valuable Player of last year, Al Rosen, third baseman, made a quick switch to first, played like a practiced veteran, and opened a spot in the lineup for a flashy, hard-hitting rookie named Rudy Regalado. The Indians started after the lead. Now that Regalado is slumping at bat, Manager Al Lopez has another capable first baseman, ex-Oriole Vic Wertz, so he can safely bench Regalado and send Rosen back to third...
...doing things the hard way. As a Florida schoolboy he was an all-around athlete, but he had to sandwich his sports in between part-time jobs. He played baseball on American Legion teams at 11, was a semi-pro at 14 (mainly because of his ability with a bat), and still found time to help support his family. For a while he was a slat-painter in a venetian-blind factory...
...until 1950, with three years in the Navy and five years in the minor leagues behind him, did Al catch on as a Cleveland regular. Even then, it was his powerful bat that made him. In the field, Rosen admits, "I've got to work and keep thinking. When I don't, I'm bush league, or worse...
...always a threat. In all pennant-hungry Cleveland, there is no happier sight than Al Rosen, firmly established in the batter's box. The ball steams in, his hips swing in a fast little shake, his left leg lifts for a quick thrust forward, and the big bat whips around. It has connected often enough to make him the league's second-ranking batsman, after his teammate Bobby Avila. (Average .340, 14 home runs, 55 runs batted in.) If the Rosen bat keeps coming through in the clutch for the second half of the season, the Indians...
...invented a leather sleeve device to serve as the missing arm for one-armed golfers, a crutch with a retractable spring so that one-legged men could go bowling, a special hook with which a one-armed man could swing a softball bat, a series of gadgets for fishermen. Then he took a leave of absence from the Press, spent three years touring every major veterans' hospital in the U.S., teaching 50,000 veterans how to use his contraptions...